Yang-en university was founded on 1987 by the patriotic overseas Chinese Yangen Foundation, Mr. Wu Qingxing and their families. It is the first private university in China with the qualification of issuing national undergraduate diploma and bachelor's degree. In 2008, it passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with good results, and became the first private university in Fujian Province to pass the undergraduate teaching level evaluation.

There are 8 colleges and 5 directly affiliated departments in yang-en university, with 18 undergraduate major, covering five disciplines: economy, management, literature, law and engineering. In the management system, the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors is implemented; In terms of development mode, we should take the connotative development road with quality improvement as the core. At present, the school is moving towards the goal of "opening and internationalization" as a modern university.

The school has advanced synchronous recording digital classrooms and multimedia language classrooms, as well as various professional laboratories such as graphic design laboratories, audio laboratories and computer monitoring laboratories, and large-scale simulation practice bases and practical teaching bases inside and outside the school. There are provincial experimental teaching platforms for public basic courses and "Twelfth Five-Year" experimental teaching demonstration centers in colleges and universities.

The school implements the "training mode of applied innovative talents", develops wide-caliber professional education based on general education, focuses on practical education and innovative education, and features the cultivation of professional expertise, and establishes three training systems: course teaching, practical teaching, quality development and innovative education.