Xiamen University, referred to as Xiamen University for short, is located in Xiamen City, Fujian Province. It is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), and a key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Fujian Province and Xiamen City. It ranks among the national "double first-class", "2 1 1 project" and "985 project", and the first batch of degree authorization is independent.
Xiamen University was founded by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in the history of modern education in China, and one of the earliest universities in China to recruit graduate students. Xiamen University Malaysian Branch was established. It became the first university in China to build an independent campus overseas, and its early buildings were selected as the national key cultural relics protection units and the "first batch of 20th century architectural heritages in China", which was praised as "the strongest university in the South" and "the most beautiful university in China".
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By the end of June 5438+February 2020, the school covers an area of 9,700 mu, of which Siming Campus is located at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, covering an area of nearly 2,600 mu, Zhangzhou Campus covers an area of 2,500 mu, Xiang 'an Campus covers an area of 3,600 mu, and Xiamen University Malaysia Campus covers an area of about 900 mu, with a total construction area of more than 2.2 million square meters. The library has 4,565,438+copies of paper books and 8,000 copies of electronic books. Affiliated hospital 10.
Campus high-speed information network is one of the core nodes of CERNET2. As of June, 2022, 1 1, the school has graduate schools, 6 departments, 33 colleges (directly affiliated departments) and 16 research institutes, offering 104 undergraduate majors, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science and so on.