Hainan University, referred to as Haida for short, is located in Haikou City, Hainan Province. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Hainan Province, a university jointly established by the People's Government of Hainan Province and the Ministry of Finance, a comprehensive key university in Hainan Province, and a key university in Hainan Province. Ranked in the national "double first-class" and "2 1 1 project".

The school's predecessor was the former South China University of Tropical Agriculture founded by 1958 and the former Hainan University founded by 1983. In August 2007, the two universities merged into the new Hainan University.

By June 5438+00, 2022, the school had three campuses, Haidian, Chengxi and Danzhou, with a campus area of 6,066 mu, a school building area of 6,543.8+0.3329 million square meters and a collection of 3,598,800 books. There are 36 secondary colleges and 69 undergraduate majors; There are 3 doctoral programs 1 for first-class disciplines, 3 doctoral programs1for professional degrees, 34 master programs1for first-class disciplines, and 6 post-doctoral mobile stations; There are more than 2,600 full-time teachers and 42,000 full-time students.