List of universities in the People's Republic of China

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This article is a list of universities in the People's Republic of China by provincial-level divisions.

By the end of 2004, China had 2,236 colleges and universities, with over 20 million students enrolled.[1] More than 6 million Chinese students graduated from university in 2008.[2] The "Project 211" for creating 100 universities began in the mid-1990s, and has merged more than 700 institutions of higher learning into about 300 universities.

Corresponding with the merging of many public universities, has been the rapid expansion of the private sector since 1999. As of 2006, private universities accounted for around 6 percent of student enrolments, or about 1.3 million of the 20 million students enrolled in formal higher education.[3][dubious – discuss]

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[edit] List of universities by provincial-level divisions

The following notation is used:

  • National (Direct): Directly administered by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE)
  • National (Other): Administered by other ministries
  • Ω (National Key Universities): Universities with high regards from the MOE and the Chinese government
  • Provincial: Public university administered by the province
  • Municipal: Public university administered by the municipality
  • Private: Privately owned and funded university

[edit] Provinces

[edit] Autonomous regions

[edit] Municipalities

[edit] Special administrative regions

[edit] Regions governed by Republic of China


[edit] Leading and time-honored universities in China (not including the universities in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao)

Peking University is the first formally established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial Capital University (Chinese: 京師大學堂) in 1898 in Beijing as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian (Chinese: 國子監) that is the national central institute of learning in China's traditional educational system in the past thousands of years. Earlier, the first modern education institution in China was founded by Sheng Xuanhuai (Chinese: 盛宣懷) and American educator Charles Daniel Tenney (Chinese: 丁家立) on October 2, 1895, in Tianjin as Peiyang Western Study School (Chinese: 天津北洋西學學堂), and later Peiyang University (Chinese: 北洋大學堂). The university changed its name to Tianjin University in 1951 and is still one of the leading universities in China. In 1896, Sheng Xuanhuai (Chinese: 盛宣懷) submitted his memorial to Guangxu Emperor to make suggestion that two official modern education institutions should be established in Beijing and Shanghai. In the same year, he founded Nanyang Public School (Chinese: 南洋公學) in Shanghai by an imperial edict issued by Guangxu Emperor. The institution initially included elementary school, secondary school, college, and a normal school. Later the institution changed its name to Jiao Tong University (also known as Chiao Tung University, Chinese: 交通大學). In the 1930s, the university was well known as the "Eastern MIT"[4] in the world due to its reputation of nurturing top engineers and scientists. In the 1950s, part of this university was moved to Xi'an, an ancient capital city in northwest China, and was established as Xi'an Jiaotong University; the part of the university remaining in Shanghai was renamed Shanghai Jiao Tong University. These two universities have developed independently since then.

Tianjin University celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1995, followed by Jiao Tong University (both in Shanghai and Xi'an) in 1996. Other leading universities, such as Zhejiang University (1897), Peking University (1898), Nanjing University (1902), Fudan University (1905)，Tongji University (1907) and Tsinghua University (1911) also recently celebrated their hundredth anniversaries, one after another.

[edit] C9 League

The C9 League is an alliance of nine most prestigious Chinese universities, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University, Xi'an Jiao Tong University and Harbin Institute of Technology. These nine universities made up the C9 League in 2009[5], which is referred to as the Chinese equivalent of the US Ivy League.[6] According to QS World University Rankings 2011/12[7], the first seven are considered as among the top 200 universities in the world, with the ranks 46, 47, 91, 124, 186, 188, and 191. For more details about this university alliance, see C9 League.

[edit] 35 leading universities in China (by geographical regions)

North China
Beijing Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Agricultural University
Tianjin Nankai University, Tianjin University
East China Nanjing University (Nanjing, Jiangsu), University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, Anhui), Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, Zhejiang), Southeast University (Nanjing, Jiangsu), Shandong University (Jinan, Shandong), Ocean University of China (Qingdao, Shandong)
Shanghai Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, East China Normal University
Western China Xi'an Jiao Tong University (Xi'an, Shaanxi), Sichuan University (Chengdu, Sichuan), Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, Gansu), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu, Sichuan), Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi'an, Shaanxi)
Chongqing Chongqing University
South Central China Wuhan University (Wuhan, Hubei), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, Hubei), National University of Defense Technology (Changsha, Hunan), Central South University (Changsha, Hunan)
Southeast China Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, Guangdong), Xiamen University (Xiamen, Fujian), South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, Guangdong)
Northeast China Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, Heilongjiang), Dalian University of Technology (Dalian, Liaoning), Jilin University (Changchun, Jilin)

Some established rankings:

[edit] See also

[edit] Related lists

[edit] References

  1. ^ CIS: China - Educational System
  2. ^ Millions of Chinese graduates out of work after fivefold rise in university places
  3. ^ CHINA: Private universities enrol millions Date: 04 May 2008
  4. ^ http://english.seiee.sjtu.edu.cn/english/list/864-1-20.htm
  5. ^ "九校签订《一流大学人才培养合作与交流协议书》 2009-10-09". http://xjtunews.xjtu.edu.cn/zhxw/2009-10/1255091987d24517.shtml. 
  6. ^ "China establishes group of Ivy League universities". http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-establishes-group-of-ivy-league-universities/story-e6frg6so-1225794050411. 
  7. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2011/12". http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011. 

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