The earliest government-run university in China is Beiyang University Hall (1895), followed by Nanyang College (1896) and Shi Jing University Hall (1898). The predecessor of Wuhan University (1893) and Zhejiang University (1897) are traditional academies in China, so they cannot be classified as universities. So before 1895, St. John's University was the only university in China, and of course it was the best.
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The "University", which was born in the Western Middle Ages, was introduced and transplanted to China, and it first happened in the first wave of "Western learning spreading to the east" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. 157 1 year, European Catholic Jesuit missionaries founded St. Paul's College, the first western-style primary school in the history of China. 1594 was upgraded to a university and formally registered in the name of St. Paul's College (commonly known as "March 8 Temple"). This is not only the first western-style university and missionary university in China, but also one of the earliest western-style universities in the Far East.
In the past, many scholars thought that St. John's University was the first university in modern China. St. John's College 189 1 set up the main hall (that is, the undergraduate department), enrolled two students in the first batch (the following year 1), and officially opened a three-year university course. 1895, the first batch of three books graduated from the main library.
1896 St. John's College was reorganized and expanded to form an undergraduate department composed of arts, science, medicine and theology. 1905, the school changed the academic system of the main library to four years. At the end of the year, it was successfully registered in accordance with the regulations of the University of Washington, D.C., USA, "which can grant American university graduates the same degree", and soon it was officially renamed as "St. John's University Hall".
St. John's University has created many firsts in the history of education in China: the first journal of a comprehensive university of arts and sciences, the first sports meeting, the first alumni association, the first graduate school, the first English publication published by the school and run by students, the first introduction of western teaching systems such as examination reputation system and discipline selection system, and the first modern university gymnasium.