School profile
Tarim University is a school with a glorious revolutionary tradition. 1958 10 was founded under the advocacy and care of General Wang Zhen, then Minister of Land Reclamation, to meet the needs of national frontier defense and the development of Tarim Reclamation Area for all kinds of talents. He served as honorary chairman for life. The school is the first batch of undergraduate colleges with the right to award bachelor's degrees approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. He was awarded a master's degree in 2003. In May 2004, it was renamed Tarim University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2007, it was rated as "excellent" in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education. In 20 17, it became the "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration University" of the Ministry of Education. Doctoral degree was awarded in 20 18. Originally a university directly under the Ministry of Agriculture, it is now under the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
There are 4 key disciplines (biology, horticulture, crop science and veterinary medicine) in the autonomous region, 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point (biology), 8 first-level discipline master degree authorization points (crop science, horticulture, biology, agricultural engineering, animal husbandry, Marxist theory, chemical engineering and technology, agriculture and forestry economic management), and 5 professional master degree authorization points (agriculture)
The school strengthens cooperation and academic exchanges with universities and research institutes at home and abroad. On 20 10, the Ministry of Education started the team-based counterpart support work, and the team-based counterpart support schools such as China Agricultural University, Zhejiang University, Huazhong Agricultural University, beijing university of chemical technology University and Donghua University achieved remarkable results, and established close cooperative relations with universities such as Northwest A&F University, Northeast Agricultural University, Lanzhou University, Wuda University and Southern Agricultural University, and established all-round substantive cooperative relations with China Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 20 foreign universities.