Xiamen University (XMU for short) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), a national key university under the "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", and a national key university under the "201Plan". It was selected into "11plan", "Everest plan", "excellent engineer education and training plan", "excellent doctor education and training plan" and the national public postgraduate plan to build a high-level university. It is a national 3 1 junior high school. The school was founded in 192 1 by 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 one of the earliest universities in China to recruit graduate students. Known as the "southern power" [1].
As of 20 13 and 12, the school covers an area of nearly 8,747 mu, of which Siming Campus is located at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, covering an area of 2,534 mu, Zhangzhou Campus covers an area of 2,568 mu, and Xiang 'an Campus has a planned construction land of 3,645 mu. The total construction area of the school building is 6.5438+0.99 million square meters, the total number of paper books in the library is 4.48 million, the total value of fixed assets is 4.2 billion yuan, and the total value of instruments and equipment exceeds 65.438+0.53 billion yuan. The construction scale and level of campus high-speed information network ranks among the top universities in China and has become one of the core nodes of CERNET2.
The school has graduate schools, 27 colleges (including 76 departments) and 10 research institutes, 187 doctoral degree awarding points, 276 master degree awarding points and 83 undergraduate majors. There are nearly 40,000 students (undergraduate students 19570, master students 17490, doctoral students 29 19), including more than 2,800 foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan [2-3].