Xiamen University was founded in 1921 by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in the history of modern education in China, and it is also a high-level university under the national "211 Project" and "985 Project".

since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the motto of "self-improvement, stop at perfection", accumulated rich experience in running schools, and formed distinctive school-running characteristics. It has become a comprehensive university with complete disciplines, strong faculty, first-class domestic status and extensive influence in the world. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 2, undergraduates and postgraduates for the country, and more than 6 academicians of the two academies have studied and worked in Xiamen University.

College institutions

The school has graduate schools, 26 colleges (including 66 departments) and 1 research institutes, with 31 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees and 49 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degrees. 185 majors can recruit and train doctoral students, 279 majors can recruit and train master's students, and 83 majors can recruit undergraduates. There are 5 first-level disciplines and 9 national key disciplines in two disciplines (covering 38 second-level national key disciplines), 26 postdoctoral mobile stations and 9 national talent training bases.

The school has a high-level faculty, with 2,61 full-time teachers, including 1,622 professors and associate professors, accounting for 62.4% of the total number of full-time teachers (the same below); There are 181 people with doctoral degrees, accounting for 69.2%. * * * has 21 academicians of the two academies (including 1 double-hired academicians), 33 winners of "* * * *", a high-level overseas talent introduced by the central government (including 7 winners of "Youth * * * *"), 7 chief scientists of the National "973" and major national research programs, 1 member of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 1 members of the the State Council Discipline Appraisal Group. There are 117 people listed in the "New (Cross-century) Excellent Talents Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education, 34 winners of the "National Outstanding Youth Science Fund", 15 "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished professor and 13 lecturers. 6 winners of the National College Teaching Master Award; There are 5 national innovation research groups and 7 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education.

external institutions of the school

The school has established inter-school cooperative relations with more than 25 universities in Britain, the United States, Japan, France, Russia and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school actively participates in the international promotion of Chinese, and has established 15 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. In terms of exchanges with Taiwan, the school has unique geographical conditions and irreplaceable humanistic advantages, and has become an important town for Taiwan studies and an important university for cross-strait academic exchanges.

The school has perfect teaching and research equipment and public service system. At present, the school covers an area of nearly 9, mu, of which the school is located at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, covering an area of more than 2,5 mu, Zhangzhou Campus covers an area of 2,568 mu, and Xiang 'an Campus has a planned construction land of 3,645 mu (in September 212, Xiang 'an Campus completed the first phase of construction and put it into use). The total building area of the school building is 1.42 million square meters, the total number of paper books in the library is 4.3 million (3733GB of e-books), the total value of fixed assets is 3.91 billion yuan, and the total value of instruments and equipment exceeds 1.37 billion yuan. The scale and level of campus high-speed information network construction ranks among the top universities in China and has become one of the core nodes of CERNET2. The campus is surrounded by mountains and seas with beautiful scenery, which has become one of the most beautiful campuses in China University.

At present, Xiamen University is striding towards the goal of "a world-renowned high-level research university".

Xiamen university educational administration system (click to enter)