Xinjiang University is located in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is a world-class university construction university, a national key university, a national "2 1 1 project" key construction university, a national key construction university for the development of the western region, a basic capacity-building engineering university of central and western universities, a scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, a national high-level university public postgraduate project university, a university with "excellent engineer education and training plan" and a university with "excellent legal talents education and training plan". The Ministry of Education cooperates with the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to build a university. It is a member of the National Key Construction University (Z 14) alliance of "one province, one school" in the central and western regions, a university initiated by the China-Central Asia University Alliance, and a national model university for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

The predecessor of Xinjiang University is Xinjiang College of Russian Politics and Law, which was founded in 1924. 1935 1 was transformed into Xinjiang university,19601kloc-0/was formally established, 1978 was identified as the only national key university in Xinjiang by the State Council, and 1997 was listed as the national "2007". On June 30th, 2000, 65438+February 30th, Xinjiang University merged with the former Xinjiang Institute of Technology to form a new Xinjiang University. In 2004, the school became a "regional university" approved by the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Education. From June 2065438 to June 2007, Xinjiang University was listed as one of the 42 "world-class universities" in the national strategic layout of "double first-class" construction by the Ministry of Education. In 20 18, it was listed in the sequence of "cooperation between ministries and provinces to build colleges and universities".

As of April 20 18, the school has three campuses, namely the headquarters, the north campus and the south campus, covering an area of about 4,363 mu. There are 36 157 students of all kinds, including 2 1025 undergraduates, 5 159 full-time graduate students, 453 doctoral students, 904 international students and 7577 adult college students.