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 powerhouse" 1. As of March 20 16, the school covers an area of more than 9,000 mu. 2065438+July 2004, Xiamen University Malaysia Branch started construction. The total construction area of the school building is over 6.5438+0.9 million square meters, the total number of paper books in the library is over 4.4 million, the total value of fixed assets is 8.455 billion yuan, and the total value of instruments and equipment is over 2.529 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, 6 departments, 27 colleges (including 76 departments) and 14 research institutes, 3 1 doctoral degree authorized first-level disciplines, and 50 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines. There are more than 40,000 students (including international students 1657), including undergraduate students 19739, graduate students 16875 and doctoral students 3 164.