Huangshan University is located in Huangshan, a picturesque city with a rich cultural background in Anhui province. Founded in 1978, it was named Huizhou Teacher's College, renamed Huangshan Junior College in December of1997, and in February of 2002 given university status and renamed Huangshan University.
Huangshan University boasts both a north and south campus with a total area of about 120 hectares. Its building area is about 350,000 square meters. The total value of the teaching equipment amounts to over 480,000,000 RMB. The University library has a collection of more than 920,000 volumes. In recent years, the University has been carrying out a rapid construction plan, which is changing the appearance of the University every day. The facilities for teaching and research, as well as student facilities for living and recreation are constantly improving.
As part of the university’s commitment to providing high-quality education, HSU has taken great efforts to build a well-structured and qualified faculty of teachers. Among the nearly 800 teaching and administrative members, 600 of them are full-time teachers, half of them holding doctoral degrees, including 130 professors and associate professors. In addition, the University also engages long-term foreign experts and many part-time professors from famous universities.
The University is made up of 5 schools with 6 departments offering 36 bachelor majors and 27 associate degree majors covering arts, history, science, pedagogy, engineering, agronomy, management, law, and many others. Huangshan University currently enrolls 13,000 full-time undergraduates coming from all over China including: Anhui, Zhejiang, Hebei, Shanxi, Yunnan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, etc. Sister schools scattered in the United States, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. It also has started enrolling international students from the Unites States, Hungary and Korea since 2006.
Since its establishment, the University has cultivated more than 25,000 students. Graduates are noted for their professionalism and their all-around competence in their selected vocational field. The employment rate of Huangshan University ranks among the highest of all colleges and universities of the same level throughout the province. The media like CCTV, China Education Report, Anhui Daily reported the graduate’s employment and was researched by the General Office of the State Council.
HSU is home to many outstanding achievements and honors. Among them, it has been appraised as the State Advanced University, the State Advanced Unit of Spoken and Written Language Standardization, The Official Mandarin Language and Chinese Culture Dissemination Center of Anhui Province, the Provincial Advanced Unit for Excellent Grass-root Party Organization, the Provincial Advanced University and University for Promotion of Spiritual Civilization, of sports and hygiene, as well as for its high employment rate.