Shihezi University is a university in Shihezi

Shihezi

Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.-Demography:Shihezi is the second largest city in Xinjiang, after Urumqi....

, Xinjiang

Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

, founded in April 1996 under the integration of some former institutional colleges by the Ministry of Education

Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

The Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China , formerly Ministry of Education, Central People's Government from 1949 to 1954, State Education Commission from 1985 to 1998, is headquartered in Beijing. It is the agency of the State Council which regulates all aspects of the...

 and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps , known as XPCC, the PCC or Bingtuan for short, is a unique economic and semi-military governmental organization in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The XPCC has administrative authority over several medium-sized...

. It is a national key university. In August 2000, the University was a key University designated by China' s government to be constructed in West China.

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

Russia

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, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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, Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

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, South Korea

South Korea

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External links

• 石河子大学