Xiamen University (XMU for short) was founded in 192 1 year 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 also a high-level university under the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project".

20 17 Xiamen university was selected as a world-class university list. Since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the motto of "self-improvement and Excellence", accumulated rich experience in running schools, and formed distinctive school-running characteristics, becoming a comprehensive university with complete disciplines, strong faculty, first-class domestic status and wide international influence.

Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 400,000 undergraduates and postgraduates for the country, and more than 60 academicians of the two academies have studied and worked in Xiamen University.

The school has more than 40,000 students (including 65,438 foreign students +0.208), including 206,565,438 undergraduates +0, 65,438 graduate students +0 and 4,737 doctoral students, with a ratio of 1: 1.

The school has perfect teaching and research equipment and public service system. At present, the school has three campuses and an overseas branch. It has 45 1 10,000 copies of paper library and 8.85 million copies of electronic library, with total fixed assets of 654.38+0.26 billion yuan and total instruments and equipment of 4.6 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.

Xiamen University is surrounded by mountains and seas, with beautiful scenery, and has become one of the most beautiful university campuses in China.

Major 16, with more than 5000 students and 360 faculty members. More than 80% of full-time teachers have doctoral degrees.

Above reference: official website-school profile, Xiamen University.