Yenching university is a university jointly founded by four Christian churches in the United States and Britain in the early 20th century. It is also one of the largest universities with the best quality and the most beautiful environment in modern China.

Yenching university is one of the universities with the largest scale, the best quality and the most beautiful environment in the modern history of China. Founded in 19 19, it is one of the four universities jointly founded by Christian churches in Beijing. Yenching university also cooperated with Harvard University to establish the Harvard Yanjing Society, which was also famous abroad at that time.

Departmental setup

When yenching university was founded, there were arts and sciences, but no departments. The academic system is three years for undergraduates and two years for preparatory courses. Later, it was changed to four years of undergraduate course and one year of preparatory course. At first, three colleges of arts, science and practical social sciences were established, and later they were changed to three colleges and eighteen departments.

The Faculty of Arts includes China Literature Department, English Department, European Literature Department, History Department, Philosophy Department, Sociology Department, Journalism Department and Music Department.

The Faculty of Science includes chemistry, biology, physics, geology, psychology and military science.

Law schools include law departments, political departments and economics departments.

1934 added a research institute, which consists of three research institutes of literature, science and law, and a specialized department of leather making, which belongs to the chemistry department; Naive Normal School belongs to the Department of Education. There are also religious colleges and affiliated schools.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-yenching university