Qinghai University

Qinghai University, abbreviated as Qingda, is located in the northern suburbs of Xining, the summer capital and provincial capital of Qinghai. Founded in 1958, it is Qinghai’s only local comprehensive university focused on four major fields—engineering, agriculture, medicine and management—with coordinated development in other disciplines. It is a key national Project 211 university jointly supported by ministry and province, with targeted support from Tsinghua University, Northwest A&F University, China University of Geosciences and other universities. It is one of 14 key universities under the national project to strengthen the comprehensive capabilities of universities in central and western China.

The campus covers 2883 mu. Its fixed assets total RMB 851 million, and teaching and research equipment is valued at RMB 276 million. Its library occupies 11800 square meters and holds more than 1.194 million books. It has 61 undergraduate programs, 56 master’s degree authorization fields and 5 doctoral degree authorization fields. It has 4177 faculty and staff, including 1189 full-time teachers and 2115 research, medical and nursing personnel. 282 staff hold full senior professional titles and 848 hold associate senior titles; 53 hold doctorates and 509 hold master’s degrees. The university admits students from 25 provinces and autonomous regions nationwide. It has 17599 full-time students, including 15385 undergraduates and more than 1515 doctoral and master’s students.

Its schools, departments and units include the School of Medicine, School of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, School of Finance and Economics, School of Chemical Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Water Resources and Electric Power, School of Ecological and Environmental Engineering, Department of Computer Technology and Applications, Department of Geological Engineering, Graduate School, Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Adult Education School, Kunlun College, School of Tibetan Medicine, and the Affiliated Hospital. It has 12 specialist research institutes, including the Institute of Animal Husbandry and the Institute of Crop Breeding and Cultivation. It has 5 national experimental research centers, including the Qinghai Branch of the National Rapeseed Improvement Center, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Agricultural Analysis Center, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau New Crop Variety Quality Testing Center. It has the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of High-Altitude Medicine, the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Plateau Biotechnology jointly supported by ministry and province, and several provincial key laboratories.

The university offers doctoral degree authorization fields in Crop Cultivation and Farming Systems, Crop Genetics and Breeding, Forage Genetics and Farming Systems, Internal Medicine (High-Altitude Medicine), and Ethnic Medicine (Tibetan Medicine). It offers master’s degree authorization fields 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. Undergraduate programs cover key disciplines including Agronomy, Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science, Grassland Science, Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Basic Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Tibetan Medicine and Pharmacy, Business Administration, Civil Engineering, Horticulture, and Regional Economics.

In recent years, the university has established long-term academic exchange and cooperative relationships with universities in more than a dozen countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, creating platforms for talent training, academic exchange and research cooperation.

Its disciplines and programs are closely linked to Qinghai’s four pillar industries and ten distinctive and advantageous industries. It has developed unique disciplinary strengths and educational characteristics in areas including the ecological environment and grassland animal husbandry of the Three-River Source Region, the genetics and breeding of cool-climate crops on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, salt lake chemical engineering, high-altitude medicine, and the inheritance and innovative study of Tibetan medicine and pharmacy. It has trained many applied professionals and made positive contributions to Qinghai’s economic development and social progress.