Profile

Founded in December 1922, Yunnan University is situated in the city of Kunming - the provincial capital of Yunnan. Yunnan University has now developed into a key national institute of higher education with a large group of academic professionals offering all the courses covered by the complete curricula in the fields of liberal arts, law, science, technology, economy, and management. It currently has fifteen schools, college and institutions. There are 19,872 students, of whom 9,919 are the full-time undergraduate students, 2,853 are postgraduate students (94 for their doctorate degrees, 684 for their master’s degrees. Now it is among one of “211 Project” universities in China authorized by the Chinese central government.

Teaching and Research 

Yunnan University has a personnel of 2,372, and among them 1,981 are the specialized professionals. Yunnan University currently has the following fifteen schools, college and institute under its administration: School of Economy, School of Adult Education, School of Humanity and Liberal Arts, School of Life Science and Chemistry, School of Electronics, School of Science, Institute for Development Research, School of Occupational Technology, School of Law, School of Public Management, School of Business Administration and Tourism Management, School of Foreign Languages, International College of Modern Design Arts, School of Medicine, School of International Relations, School of International Cultures, School of the Dianchi Lake, School of Tourism Culture at Lijiang, School of Software Engineering, etc. In these schools, college and institute there are more than thirty teaching departments and divisions that offer sixty-five major fields of study for the four-year programs for undergraduates. Additionally, Yunnan University also holds sixteen centers for development and research, twenty-five research institutes, ten research offices, and four teaching-oriented service centers.

International Cooperation

In recent years, Yunnan University has established different levels of exchange relations with more than 50 institutes of higher learning and research organizations in more than twenty countries and regions such as the US, the UK, Russia, Japan, Australia, etc, and it has sent out more than 200 people to carry out the academic exchanges and cooperative research abroad and has successfully sponsored more than ten international academic conferences. Yunnan University is becoming one of the academically active universities in Asian and Pacific region.