Qiqihar University

Founded in 1952, Qiqihar University is the only provincially administered comprehensive regular university in western Heilongjiang. It is located beside Labor Lake in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, on the banks of the Nen River in the renowned homeland of the red-crowned crane. It covers 1.39 million square meters, with a building floor area of 850000 square meters, and is known as the “university surrounding a lake.” It is one of Heilongjiang’s three provincially administered comprehensive universities, a National Civilized Institution, an institution rated Excellent in the Ministry of Education’s undergraduate teaching evaluation, and a key university in the first phase of Heilongjiang’s initiative to strengthen the province through higher education.

The university has 22 schools and departments and 7 teaching support units. It offers 77 undergraduate programs, 18 first-level disciplines authorized to award master’s degrees and 16 professional master’s degree categories, and has 4 provincial key disciplines. Chemistry, Engineering and Materials Science, 3 disciplines, rank in the global ESI top 1%. It is one of 7 provincially administered universities with 3 or more disciplines in the ESI top 1%.

The university has 1603 full-time teachers, including 773 with senior professional titles and 421 with doctoral qualifications, as well as 24 doctoral supervisors and 555 master’s supervisors.

The university continues to develop its campus culture. Its spirit centers on the motto “Cultivate Integrity and Virtue, Preserve Excellence and Renew Oneself,” the university ethos of “Great Love, Great Way, Great Learning,” the teaching ethos of “Be a Person of Character, a Scholar and a Teacher,” and the learning ethos of “Seek Knowledge, Apply It and Reach Far.” It has received the National Civilized Institution honor in five consecutive rounds.

The university places strong emphasis on international exchange and cooperation. It has established cooperative relationships with over 90 universities and related institutions in 14 countries and regions, including Russia, the United States and Japan, conducting inter-university visits, academic exchanges and joint education. The Ministry of Education designated it a China-Russia University Student Arts Exchange Base. It is a host institution for the Chinese Government Scholarship Program for international students and the Heilongjiang Provincial Government Scholarship Program for international students.