Shihezi University

Shihezi University
石河子大学
Type Public
Academic staff 2,449
Undergraduates 21,061
Postgraduates 1427
Location Shihezi, China
Campus Urban

Shihezi University (Chinese: 石河子大学; pinyin: Shíhézǐ dàxué) is a university in Shihezi, Xinjiang, founded in April 1996 under the integration of some former institutional colleges by the Ministry of Education and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. It is a national key university.[1] In August 2000, the University was a key University designated by China' s government to be constructed in West China.

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Campus

The University is equipped with the most up-to-date teaching and scientific research facilities. It has a well-equipped library, a large gymnasium, a multi-functional stadium and modernized teaching buildings. The University covers 1,780, 000 square meters. It has 860,000 square meters of building, and the area of its laboratories is 165,243. The library has a collection of 2,630,000 Chinese and foreign books and periodicals, and is only one model project in Xinjiang, as university digital libraries in State High-tech Project 863-There is also a book collection spot of UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in it.

Location

It is located in the Garden City - Shihezi city north of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang.

Faculty

The University has 2,611 staff. There are 1,560 full-time teachers including a specially-engaged academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 166 professors, 489 associate professors, 58 experts and scholars receiving outstanding achievement awards at national and provincial level, and 80 distinguished experts and scholars receiving special subsidies from the government.

Students

The students come from 31 provinces and regions of China. The student population is currently 30,261, including 22,635 undergraduates, 2120 postgraduates for Doctoral Degree and Master Degree. There is also a section of foreign students,doing M.B.B.S. Foreign students mainly from Russia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea.

References

  1. ^ http://www.shzu.edu.cn/structure/xxgk/xxgk 石河子大学>学校概况

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