According to structural characteristics of professional knowledge of the students in financial and economics type colleges and universities, this paper analyzes the status quo and characteristics of mathematical modeling courses in the colleges and universities, points out the teaching content system of the mathematical modeling courses matching the characteristics of the students in the colleges and universities and presents the related ideas for composing the relative textbooks. Practical teaching and the achievements in mathematical modeling in recent years prove that the content matches the characteristics of the students in the colleges and universities.