Huaqiao University is a subordinate college, and its popularity in Fujian Province and even the whole country is still relatively high. Headquartered in Quanzhou, Fujian, it has two campuses in Quanzhou and Xiamen, Nanyang College in Singapore, overseas Chinese education base in Barcelona, Confucius Institutes in Bangkok, Phuket and Vienna, and 77 offices or enrollment institutions on five continents. Huaqiao University, directly under the leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, is a university directly under the Central Committee approved by Premier Zhou Enlai. It is a comprehensive university jointly established by the United Front Work Department, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the Ministry of Education and Fujian Province, and has been identified as a "national key university".

The school has successively been selected as a "double-first-class" construction university in Fujian Province, a key construction university in Fujian Province, a high-level university in Fujian Province, a member of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, a national college student cultural quality education base, a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a scholarship receiving institution for foreign students from China Government, a national master's degree program for building a high-level university, a national key discipline project, a new engineering research and practice project, and 1+2+. The school is the second institution of higher learning in Fujian Province with the right to evaluate graduate schools and professors and associate professors, and has the qualification of recommending graduate students without examination; It is one of the first universities with the qualification to recruit foreign students, one of the pilot universities chartered by the Hong Kong government to recruit associate degrees, and one of the earliest universities in New China to implement the board system; The school won the excellent grade in the first batch of undergraduate teaching level evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and the proportion of doctoral teachers ranked second in Fujian Province.