Ningxia University

Ningxia University is a comprehensive university jointly supported by the People’s Government of the autonomous region and the Ministry of Education, and a key university under the national Project 211. Founded in 1958, it merged with the former Ningxia Institute of Technology and Yinchuan Teachers College (including Ningxia College of Education) in December 997. In February 2002, it merged with Ningxia Agricultural College to establish the new Ningxia University, opening a new chapter in its reform and development. The university is located in Yinchuan, a historic and culturally rich city beyond the Great Wall with beautiful scenery. Its campus buildings, flourishing trees and flowers, and tranquil surroundings make it an ideal place to study and conduct research.

The university occupies 2938 mu, with a teaching and experimental farm covering 1890 mu. It recruits students from 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. It currently has 19668 full-time undergraduate students, more than 7644 postgraduate students, 1047 ethnic minority preparatory students, and more than 270 international students. It has 2726 faculty and staff, a modern digital library and a multifunctional gymnasium.

Ningxia University has 24 schools and 77 undergraduate programs. It has 1 national key discipline, 1 national key discipline under cultivation, 18 autonomous-region key disciplines, 8 autonomous-region advantageous and distinctive disciplines under the 13th Five-Year Plan, 7 key disciplines supported by Project 211, 1 discipline under key cultivation through Project 211, and 8 autonomous-region key disciplines under the 13th Five-Year Plan. A further 10 disciplines have been selected for the autonomous region’s first-class discipline development initiative. It offers doctoral degrees in 5 first-level and 26 second-level disciplines, master’s degrees in 26 first-level and 163 second-level disciplines, and 8 professional master’s degree categories. It has 3 postdoctoral research stations in ethnology, hydraulic engineering and grassland science, as well as 12 autonomous-region academician workstations. Its disciplines span 10 categories: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture and management.

The university pursues openness in education. It has established substantive exchange and cooperation partnerships with a number of prominent Chinese universities, including Shandong University and Northwest A&F University. Drawing on its regional characteristics and disciplinary strengths, it has developed partnerships with dozens of universities in more than ten countries and regions. In cooperation with the University of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, it established the first Confucius Institute in the Gulf region. Ningxia University was among the first universities authorized by the Ministry of Education to accept international students. It is a host institution for Chinese Government Scholarship students and Hanban (Confucius Institute Headquarters) scholarship students, and is the only HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) center in Ningxia approved by Hanban (Confucius Institute Headquarters). Since it began recruiting international students in 1992, more than two thousand students from over 40 countries—including South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia, Australia, Norway, Mexico, Sudan, Egypt, Türkiye and Kyrgyzstan—have studied at the university. More than 270 international students currently study here. All of Ningxia University’s programs accept international students. It offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree education, and also welcomes language students, advanced visiting students, visiting scholars, and participants in various short-term study tours and cultural experience programs.

Looking ahead, Ningxia University will continue to uphold the principles of being people-centered, pursuing scientific development and excellence, governing the university in accordance with the law, and undertaking comprehensive reform. It will promote distinctive, innovative and sustainable development, working to become a high-level teaching and research university that has clear regional characteristics, a strong capacity to serve local development, and first-class standing in western China.