Xiamen University (XMU) is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and the Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is a world-class university construction university (Class A), a national key construction university under the "2 1 1 Project" and the "985 Project", and the first batch of independent degree authorized institutions. Selected into the national "20 1 1 plan", "Everest plan", "strong foundation plan", "1/plan" and excellent engineer education and training plan.
Excellent legal talents education and training plan, excellent doctoral education and training plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, new engineering research and practice project, national high-level university public graduate program, national innovative talents training demonstration base, national college students' cultural quality education base, China government scholarship receiving institutions for foreign students in China, and the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.
The National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Alliance, initiated by universities, is a founding member of the China-Europe Business School Alliance and China Artificial Intelligence Education Association, a member of the University General Education Alliance and CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, and is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Fujian Province and Xiamen City.
Xiamen University was founded on 192 1 by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in China's modern education history, one of the earliest universities in China to recruit graduate students, and the first university in China to build an independent campus overseas. Its early buildings were selected as the national key cultural relics protection units and the first batch of China 20th century architectural heritage, and were praised as "the strongest in the South" and "the most beautiful university in China".
As of June 5438+February, 2020, the four campuses of the school cover more than 9,700 mu, including about 900 mu in Malaysia; There are graduate schools, 6 departments, 29 colleges and 16 research institutes.