Qinghai University

Qinghai University, also known as QU, is located in the northern suburbs of Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province. Founded in 1958, it is the only local comprehensive university in Qinghai Province that focuses on the four major disciplines of engineering, agriculture, medicine and management, with coordinated development of other disciplines. It is a key university under the "211 Project" that is jointly built by the Ministry and the province and supported by universities such as Tsinghua University, Northwest A&F University and China University of Geosciences. It is also one of the 14 key universities under the "Comprehensive Strength Enhancement Project for Higher Education Institutions in Central and Western China".

The campus covers an area of 2,883 mu. The total value of fixed assets is 851 million yuan. The total value of teaching and research equipment is 276 million yuan. The library of the university has an area of 11,800 square meters and a collection of over 1.194 million volumes. There are 61 undergraduate programs, 56 master's programs and 5 doctoral programs. The school has 4,177 staff members, including 1,189 full-time teachers and 2,115 research and medical staff. There are 282 full professors and 848 associate professors in the school. There are 53 doctors and 509 masters. The school recruits students from 25 provinces and regions across the country. Currently, there are 17,599 full-time students, including 15,385 undergraduates and more than 1,515 doctoral and master's students.

The school consists of the College of Medicine, the College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, the College of Finance and Economics, the College of Chemical Engineering, the College of Mechanical Engineering, the College of Civil Engineering, the College of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, the College of Ecological Environment Engineering, the Department of Computer Technology and Application, the Department of Geological Engineering, the Graduate School, the College of Agriculture and Forestry, the College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, the College of Adult Education, Kunlun College, the College of Tibetan Medicine, and the Affiliated Hospital. There are 12 specialized research institutes, including the Institute of Animal Husbandry and the Institute of Crop Breeding and Cultivation. There are five national experimental research centers, including the National Rapeseed Improvement Qinghai Branch Center, the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Agricultural Analysis Center, and the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Crop New Variety Quality Testing Center. There is the Key Laboratory of Plateau Medicine of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of Plateau Biotechnology of the Ministry of Education co-built by the province and the Ministry, as well as several provincial key laboratories.

The university has doctoral programs in crop cultivation and Tillage, crop genetics and breeding, forage genetics and tillage, Internal medicine (Plateau Medicine direction), and Ethnic medicine (Tibetan medicine direction). Master's programs in mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering, chemical engineering and technology, geological resources and geological engineering, landscape architecture, crop science, forestry, grassland science, basic medicine, and business administration. The discipline's undergraduate programs cover key disciplines such as agriculture, veterinary medicine, animal science, grassland science, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, mechanical manufacturing and automation, chemical engineering and technology, basic medicine, preventive medicine, Tibetan medicine and Tibetan pharmacology, business administration, civil engineering, horticulture, and regional economics.

In recent years, the school has established long-term academic exchange and cooperation relations with universities in more than a dozen countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and has established platforms for talent cultivation, academic exchange and scientific research cooperation.

The disciplines and specialties set up by the school are closely related to the four pillar industries and ten characteristic advantageous industries of Qinghai, and have formed unique disciplinary advantages and educational characteristics in areas such as the ecological environment of the three-river-source region and grassland animal husbandry, genetic breeding of cold crops on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, salt lake chemical industry, plateau medicine, inheritance and innovation research of Tibetan medicine, and have cultivated a large number of applied talents. It has made positive contributions to the economic construction and social development of Qinghai.