Situated in Xinjiang, Xinjiang University is a key university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China and also listed as “211 Project” to be priority invested and constructed by the state. Founded in 1924, the University offers a broad range of programs now, including 70 undergraduate programs, 83 master programs and about 12 doctoral programs. It is a natural whole with the disciplines of Chinese languages, management, economics, law, education, literature, medicine, etc.
Xinjiang University boasts a campus which has a floorage of 2.46 million square meters. It is wooden and green, surrounded by a lot of fragrant flowers. The University offers a comprehensive range of support services for all students and teachers, with all major facilities easily accessible on campus. It has also built the trunk network of its Campus Computer Networks and has set up interactive network teaching platforms centered on multi-media course wares. The University library has over 1,630,000 books and periodicals, its web-based catalogue and homepage guide you to high-quality resources, as well as providing detailed information on all library services.
Xinjiang University lays great emphasis on international cooperation and exchanges and has established cooperative ties with many universities and research institutes worldwide. It also invites famous foreign scholars and political personages to be the part-time professors, honorary professors or guest professors. The University has currently 9 programs for more than 20 international students. Most of them have been awarded a diploma as well as a degree certificate after their completion of all courses according to schedule. Apart from that, the University has 11 foreign teachers from different countries and regions. Xinjiang University welcomes the cultural diversity the international students and teachers bring to campus life.
During the past years after its founding, Xinjiang University has gradually achieved recognition for the strength of its leading-edge research and high quality teaching. The graduates from Xinjiang University are prized by employers and their employment statuses are reaching upwards of 63% in recent years.
The department of international cooperation and exchanges Xinjiang University is the sole authority responsible for the implementation of the University’s foreign polices, for coordinating international exchanges, and for the cooperation between our university and institutions abroad. This role as a bridge between our university and others includes these specific responsibilities: promoting international exchanges and cooperation; inviting long-term and short-term foreign experts to participate in our educational activities; enrolling foreign students; facilitating our faculty when they study abroad; processing applications for holding international forums; managing scholarship donations by international organizations; receiving foreign guests; handling affairs with Taiwan, the Hong Kong Special Administration Region and Macau; translating works and any other duties assigned by the leaders of the University.
Benefited from the new favorable opportunities of development and stimulated by the new challenge, Xinjiang University is working hard for building a high-level university well known both at home and abroad. On this basis, still greater efforts are to be made to raise the teaching, scientific research and every other work of the university to international advanced levels so that the university can enjoy higher position and greater prestige in the international academic circles in the near future.