Yanbian University is located in Yanji, the capital of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, which has the reputation of "hometown of education". It is a comprehensive university with distinctive national characteristics, a national "2 1 1 project" key construction university, a key construction university for the development of western Jilin Province, and a key construction university of the Ministry of Education. The school was founded in 1949, once under the Ministry of Higher Education of the State Council, and was transferred to Jilin Province in 1957. From August 65438 to August 0958, Yanbian University was divided into Yanbian University, Yanbian Medical College, Yanbian Agricultural College and Yanbian Institute of Technology. 1996 With the approval of the former State Education Commission, the former Yanbian University, Yanbian Medical College, Yanbian Agricultural College, Yanbian Normal College, Yanbian Branch of Jilin Art College and Yanbian University of Science and Technology (to be established), a Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution, merged to form a new Yanbian University.

The school has 19 colleges and 70 undergraduate majors in 10 disciplines. The school has 1 national key disciplines, 12 provincial key disciplines, 7 national characteristic majors, 3 provincial characteristic majors, 1 postdoctoral research mobile station, 8 doctoral degree authorization points, 7 first-class discipline master points, 78 two disciplines master points and 4 professional master points, covering science, engineering, agriculture and science.

The school has more than 20,000 full-time students, including more than 3,000 doctoral and master students, 65,438+6,000 undergraduates, 500 international students, 500 preparatory students, full-time adult students and advanced students.