Xinjiang University, referred to as "Xinda", is located in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is a national "double first-class" world-class university, a comprehensive national key university, a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and a national "2 1 1 project" key university.

The predecessor of Xinjiang University is Xinjiang College of Russian Politics and Law, which was founded in 1924. 1935 65438+ 10 was transferred to Xinjiang college. 1 960 65438+1October1,Xinjiang University was formally established. 65438-0978, the school was identified by the State Council as the only national key university in Xinjiang. 1997 was included in the first batch of "2 1 1 project" key universities in China. In 2000, it was identified as a national key construction university for the development of the western region.