Xiamen University (XMU) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Fujian Province and Xiamen City. It is a key university under the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", and the national "2065438". It was selected into "11plan", "Everest plan", "excellent engineer education and training plan", "excellent doctor education and training plan" and the national public postgraduate plan to build a high-level university. It is a national 3 1 junior high school.
The school has graduate schools, 6 departments, 27 colleges (including 76 departments) and 14 research institutes, 3 1 doctoral degree authorized first-level disciplines, and 50 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines. There are more than 40,000 students (including international students 1657), including undergraduate students 19739, graduate students 16875 and doctoral students 3 164.