Jilin University is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, ranking among the national "double first-class", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project". The school is located in Changchun. As of August 3, 2022, the school campus covers an area of 7310.6 million square meters (including Zhuhai Campus10.49 million square meters).

With a building area of 2.73 million square meters, the school building has 52 teaching units covering 13 disciplines, including 40 undergraduate majors1,6 master's degree authorization points for first-class disciplines1,48 doctoral degree authorization points for first-class disciplines, 4 interdisciplinary doctoral degree authorization points, 33 master's degree authorization points and 6 doctoral degree authorization points.

There are 4 national key disciplines (covering 17), 2 national key disciplines 15, 4 national key disciplines (training) and 6,464 faculty members.

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As of March 2023, the school has 52 teaching units, offering 140 undergraduate majors, covering 13 disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and interdisciplinary subjects.

As of March 2023, the school has faculty 17299, and there are 6435 full-time teachers, including 2443 professors. Academician of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering 1 1 person, 7 senior professors of philosophy and social sciences, 42 outstanding professors from outside, and 20 members of the discipline evaluation group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee.

Seventy-six experts from the National Plan for 10,000 Talents, seven national famous teachers, 30 experts from the National Project for 100 Million Talents, 38 winners from the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 54 winners from the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and "Changbai Mountain Scholars" in Jilin Province 152.