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Yunnan University was founded in 1922 as a private Donglu University, 1934 changed its name to provincial Yunnan University, and 1938 changed its name to national Yunnan University. It is one of the earliest comprehensive universities in the western frontier of China. 1937, Xiong qinglai, a famous mathematician and educator, became the principal, and a large number of famous scholars were employed to teach in this school.
It has laid a high development foundation and profound academic foundation for the school, and created the first glorious period in the history of Yunnan University. In the 1940s, Yunnan University has developed into one of the large-scale and internationally influential multidisciplinary universities in literature, law, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine.
1946, Encyclopedia Britannica listed Yunnan University as one of the most influential universities in the world in 15. In 1950s, the departments were adjusted, and some important and distinctive departments such as aviation, civil engineering, law and railway under Yunnan University were set aside and merged into Beijing Aviation Institute, Sichuan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Changsha Railway Institute and other universities.
Industry, medicine, agriculture, etc. have independently established schools, and gradually developed into today's Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Agricultural University, Southwest Forestry University and other universities. From 65438 to 0958, Yunnan University was placed under the management of Yunnan Province by the Central Ministry of Higher Education. 65438-0978 Yunnan University was identified as one of the 88 key universities in China by the State Council.
After the reform and opening up, Yunnan University has made great progress. 1996 was included in the first batch of national "2 1 1 project" key construction universities, in 2006, 5438+0 was included in the key construction universities of western development, and in 2004, it became a key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Yunnan Province. In 2006, the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level was rated as A in all 19 secondary indicators.
It was rated as an excellent undergraduate teaching school by the Ministry of Education. 20 12 became the national implementing agency of "the basic capacity building project of central and western universities" and "the comprehensive strength improvement project of central and western universities". In 20 16, it became the national implementation institution of "one province, one school" project, and in 20 17, it became one of the first batch of 42 "first-class universities" in China.
In 20 18, it ranked among the top universities in the central and western regions 14, which are "Ministry-oriented and jointly built by ministries and provinces". In the new historical period, Yunnan University will closely focus on the goal of building a world-class university, actively integrate into the national strategy, actively serve Yunnan's economic and social development, follow the development concept of "open cooperation, integrated innovation, coordinated progress, and characteristic development", and follow the school-running thinking of basing itself on Yunnan, serving the whole country, radiating Asia, and going global, with "first-class party building" as the guide and focusing on connotation construction.
With the reform of system and mechanism as the driving force, we will vigorously implement the strategies of "invigorating the school by learning" and "strengthening the school by talents", and make great efforts to promote the "Cultivation Plan for Cultivating Talents" and the "Yunnan University Service Yunnan Action Plan" to comprehensively improve the strength and level of running a school and make contributions to regional economic and social development. Yunnan University has 27 colleges and 14 research institutions.
Public teaching department 1, 2 independent colleges, affiliated hospitals and graduate schools 1. There are 2,943 faculty members in the school, including 2,740 professional and technical positions, 438 full-time senior titles, 854 associate senior titles, and doctoral degrees165,438+045. The school has full-time undergraduates 16976, master students 7595 and doctoral students 1 108.
The school covers an area of 4,363.64 mu, distributed in Chenggong Campus and Donglu Campus, with a public school building area of 6,543.8+0,000 square meters. The total assets of teaching and research instruments and information equipment are more than 938 million yuan, and the library has more than 3.7 million books. The school is the main node unit of CERNET in China.
Yunnan University has 86 undergraduate majors, 12 national characteristic majors. It has four national key disciplines, including ethnology, ecology, special history and microbiology, and 52 provincial key disciplines. There are 2/kloc-0 first-class doctoral degrees, 42 first-class master's degrees and 22 professional master's degrees.
In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, 30 disciplines in our school have entered the top 70% in China, including 2 disciplines A (A+ for ethnology and A- for ecology), and discipline B 14. Microbiology, chemistry, botany and zoology are among the top 1% in the global ESI ranking. The school has formed a comprehensive university featuring ethnology, biology, development of characteristic resources and environmental protection, as well as research on frontier issues and international issues in Southeast Asia and South Asia, with relatively complete disciplines and intensive talents.
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