Xiamen University was founded in 192 1 by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a famous 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, and is known as the "strong country in the South".
The school is directly under the Ministry of Education, directly under the central government, and has a deputy ministerial system. It is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university. The key universities under construction by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Fujian Province and Xiamen City are national "double first-class" world-class universities, national "20 1 1 plan" key universities and national "21/project" key universities.
Xiamen University is a member university of China-Europe Business School Alliance, and has been selected into 1 1 Plan, Everest Plan, Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan, Excellent Doctor Education and Training Plan, National New-type Engineering Research and Practice Project, National Public Postgraduate Project of Building High-level Universities, and China Government Scholarship Receiving Institution for Foreign Students in China.