2. Jishou University, referred to as "Jida" for short, runs across Jishou City and Zhangjiajie City. It is a university jointly established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Hunan Provincial People's Government and a first-class discipline construction university in Hunan Province.

3. Jishou University was founded in April of 1958, and was upgraded to a provincial comprehensive university in June of 438+0978. In the same year, Xiangxi Branch of Xiangya Medical College of Central South University was merged into Jishou University to form the Department of Medicine, and Xiangxi Branch of Xiangtan University was merged into Jishou University to form the Department of Physical Education. In 2000, Jishou Health School was merged into Jishou University. 200 1, Xiangxi Institute of Ethnic Education and Jishou Normal School for Nationalities merged into Jishou University to form Jishou Normal College; In 2002, Wuling College (Wuling University) was merged into Jishou University and became the Zhangjiajie Campus of Jishou University.

4. As of June 2020, the school has a total area of more than 2,900 mu, a building area of nearly 600,000 square meters, a total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment of 330 million yuan, and more than 6 million copies of various paper and electronic documents; There are nearly 1500 employees in vocational education, more than full-time teachers 1 100, and more than 30,000 students of all kinds, including 20,000 undergraduates, master students, doctoral students and international students. At present, there are 19 teaching colleges, 4 1 first-class disciplines and 78 undergraduate majors, covering 12 major disciplines.