Jishou University, founded in 1958, runs schools in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province. It is a comprehensive university in Hunan Province and the only comprehensive university in Wuling Mountain area. The school has successively become an ordinary university jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Hunan Provincial Government, a batch-admitted university, a doctor's degree authorized unit, a high-level university in Hunan Province, a "double-first-class" university in Hunan Province, and recommended excellent undergraduate graduates to study for a master's degree without examination.

The school has a complete range of disciplines, including 22 teaching colleges, 465,438+0 first-class disciplines and 78 undergraduate majors, covering 65,438+02 major disciplines. There are 5 provincial key disciplines (including key disciplines with advantages and characteristics 1 each), provincial first-class construction disciplines 1 each, provincial first-class cultivation disciplines 1 each, and 2 key disciplines of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission; 2 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 1 "collaborative research and development center for postdoctoral research mobile stations"; First-class doctoral program 1, first-class master program 16, professional master program17; There are 3 specialties with national characteristics, 1 comprehensively reform the specialties with national undergraduate characteristics.

The school has nearly 1.500 vocational education employees, including more than 1.654 and 38+0.000 full-time teachers, including more than 700 senior professional titles, and more than 560 doctoral supervisors and master supervisors. "Special Allowance of the State Council" experts 14, "Hundred Talents Program in the New Century" national candidates 1 person, "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" talents of the Ministry of Education 6 people, cultural experts, "Four Groups" talent project 1 person, outstanding young and middle-aged experts in ethnic studies of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission 1 person.

There are more than 30,000 students in the school, including more than 20,000 undergraduates, master students, doctoral students and international students. The school has built a "education-oriented" system based on "curriculum guidance, environmental edification, practice tempering and self-shaping". Students have strong practical ability and many social practice activities. They have won the first prize and the first prize in various competitions and competitions such as the "internet plus" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in China and the "Challenge Cup" College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition. The college students' minority art troupe has performed in the United States, Hong Kong and other places for many times, which has a wide influence. The school has been awarded the titles of "advanced unit for college students' work in agriculture, countryside and farmers" and "excellent university in western planning project" for many times.