Xiamen University
School profile.
1. Xiamen university (XMU) was founded in 192 1 by Chen Jiageng, a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in the modern education history of China, and it is also the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project".
2. Since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the motto of "self-improvement, stop at perfection", 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, it has trained more than 300,000 undergraduates and postgraduates for the country, and more than 60 academicians of the two academies have studied and worked in Xiamen University.
3. The school has graduate schools, 6 departments, 28 colleges (including 76 departments) and 14 research institutes, forming a complete discipline system including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and technical sciences, management sciences, art sciences and medical sciences. At present, 1 1% has five first-class disciplines, nine national key disciplines in two disciplines, seven first-class disciplines 17, 46 first-class disciplines in Fujian and nine national basic science talent training bases. 3 1 postdoctoral mobile station; 365,438+0 doctors authorized the first-level discipline, and 5 doctors authorized two disciplines; 50 master's degrees authorize first-class disciplines, and 5 master's degrees authorize two disciplines; 9 interdisciplinary subjects; Authorized by 24 professional degree disciplines.
4. There are 27 18 full-time teachers in the school, including 27 professors 1.826, accounting for 67.0% of the total number of full-time teachers (the same below), and 2078 have doctoral degrees, accounting for 76.5%. * * * There are 2 academicians of the two academies1person (including 9 double-hired academicians), 2 senior professors of liberal arts, 0/8 chief scientist of the national key basic research and development plan (referred to as the 973 plan, including major scientific research plans) and 0/8 national experts with outstanding contributions, and they are selected into the overseas high-level talent introduction plan ("thousands of people" "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished professor 2 1 person, lecturer 16, young scholar 1 person, 40 winners of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and 6 national famous teachers. There are 8 leading talents in scientific and technological innovation, 3 leading talents in philosophy and social sciences, famous teachers 1 person, 100 million engineering leading talents 1 person, 6 top-notch young talents, 9 winners of the national "100 million talents project"1person, 26 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and "cutting-edge" of the Ministry of Education. There are 6 innovative research groups under the National Foundation of China, 9 innovative teams under the Ministry of Education and 7 academic innovation and intelligence introduction bases ("11plan").
5. There are nearly 40,000 students in our school (including foreign students 1 196), including undergraduate students 19782, graduate students 16390 and doctoral students 3,229, accounting for about 1: 1. The school won 3 first prizes and 2 second prizes 17 in the fifth, sixth and seventh national higher education, ranking among the top universities in China. 30 courses were selected as national "excellent courses" and 6 national experimental teaching demonstration centers; 12 papers were selected as "Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in China". Xiamen University graduates are one of the most popular groups in society, with an average annual employment rate of over 95%.
6. There are more than 200 research institutions in the school, including 2 national collaborative innovation centers (leading units), 4 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering laboratory 1, 1 national engineering technology research center 1, 3 national local joint engineering laboratories, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 3 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education and 5 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. Xiamen University National University Science Park is one of the only two national university science parks recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education in Fujian Province. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the strength of natural science research in the school has been greatly improved, and more than 50 papers have been published in international high-level academic journals such as Science, Nature, Cell and its sub-journals. Won 4 second prizes of national natural science and international scientific and technological cooperation 1 item; 1 achievements were selected as "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in China", 2 achievements were selected as "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in National Universities", and 1 achievements won the China Patent Gold Award. The school has a strong research strength in humanities and social sciences. During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, * * * undertook 17 major projects of the National Social Science Fund and 18 key research projects of philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. Thirty-two achievements won the sixth and seventh outstanding achievement awards of scientific research in colleges and universities (humanities and social sciences) by the Ministry of Education, including three first prizes; Xiamen University has formed its own characteristics in the fields of Taiwan Studies, Nanyang Studies, Higher Education, Economics, Accounting, Nanhai Studies, etc., and its strength ranks among the top universities in China. In 20 16 years, the school's scientific research funds exceeded 1 1 100 million yuan.
7. The school has carried out in-depth exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries, signed inter-school cooperation agreements with more than 300 overseas universities, and carried out substantive exchanges and cooperation with 47 top 200 universities in the world. Actively participate in the international promotion of Chinese, and have established 16 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with universities in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and other regions, and been approved to build the "Dean College of Confucius Institutes". In terms of exchanges with Taiwan, the school has unique geographical conditions and irreplaceable humanistic advantages, and has become a major academic town in Taiwan Province and the forefront of cross-strait academic and cultural exchanges. 2065438+July 2004, Xiamen University Malaysian Branch laid the foundation stone, becoming the first university in China to build an independent campus overseas. 2065438+February 2006, the branch held the opening ceremony of the first batch of freshmen; The branch school offered 12 major, with students 1340 and faculty 120, and won the "Fujian Provincial Government Scholarship". Xiamen University Malaysia was praised by the central media as a pearl embedded in the "Belt and Road" and was written into the China-Malaysia joint press statement.
8. The school has perfect teaching and research equipment and public service system. At present, the school covers an area of more than 9,000 mu, including 2,600 mu in Siming Campus, 2,500 mu in Zhangzhou Campus, 3,600 mu in Xiang 'an Campus and 900 mu in Malaysia Campus, with a total construction area of 265,438+10,000 square meters. The school has more than 465,438+paper libraries and more than 4.9 million electronic books, with total fixed assets of 965,438+billion yuan and total equipment of 2.8 billion yuan. There are 8 affiliated hospitals. 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 campuses in China.
9. The 10th Congress of Xiamen University has determined the overall strategic goal for the development of Xiamen University in the coming period: to build a world-renowned high-level research university in an all-round way in the centenary of its founding, and to rank among the world-class universities in the centenary of the founding of New China. At present, Xiamen University is striding forward towards the established goal.