First, the school profile

1, Xiamen University (XMU for short), located in Xiamen, Fujian Province, is a national key comprehensive research university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), and the key universities of the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, Fujian Province and Xiamen City rank "double-class" and "2 10" in the country.

2. The first batch of independent audit institutions with degree authorization were selected into the national "20 1 1 Plan", "Everest Plan", "Strong Foundation Plan", "11Plan", excellent legal talent education and training plan, excellent doctor education and training plan and excellent engineer education.

Xiamen University was founded by Mr. Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It is the first university founded by overseas Chinese in the history of modern education in China, and one of the earliest universities in China to recruit graduate students. Xiamen University Malaysian Branch was established.

4. Became the first university in China to build an independent campus overseas, and its early buildings were selected as national key cultural relics protection units and "the first batch of architectural heritages in China in the 20th century", which was praised as "the strongest in the South" and "the most beautiful university in China".

Second, discipline construction

1. The school has five first-class disciplines and nine national key disciplines in two disciplines. 32 post-doctoral mobile stations; Thirty-seven doctoral degrees are authorized by first-class disciplines, and 46 master's degrees are authorized by first-class disciplines; 8 independent second-level interdisciplinary subjects; There are 2 categories of doctoral degree authorization and 29 categories of master degree authorization.

2. In 2022, six disciplines including pedagogy, chemistry, marine science, biology, ecology and statistics were selected into the list of world-class disciplines published by the state.

Third, academic resources.

1. The total collection of books in Xiamen University Library reaches13.36 million volumes. Among them, there are 45 1 000 paper collections, 8.85 million electronic collections and more than 70 databases 1. Thesis collection involves various fields, especially literature in philosophy, linguistics, history, politics, law, economics, management and so on. It has advantages in the information construction of research in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

2. There are a large number of ancient books, thread-bound books, microfilm and other resources in the museum, which is the key protection unit of ancient books in China.