Jilin University

Jilin University ranked 26th among Chinese universities in the 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities, fifth in the 2016 ranking of universities by the number of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering members they had educated, and fourth in the 2015 ranking of Chinese universities by outstanding political alumni. It is currently China’s largest higher education institution by scale, with 6 campuses and 7 campus sites. With a comprehensive range of disciplines and rigorous scholarship, it follows the guiding approach of “Active Development, Standardized Management, Reform and Innovation.” It has 121 undergraduate programs admitting students, 49 first-level doctoral degree authorization fields, 6 first-level master’s degree authorization fields, 11 professional doctoral degree authorization fields, 25 professional master’s degree authorization fields, 9 emerging interdisciplinary degree authorization fields, and 48 postdoctoral research stations. Nineteen disciplines or fields rank in the ESI global top 1%, including 5 in the top 1‰ and 1 in the top 1‱.

It has a full range of disciplines, with 43 schools covering 13 categories: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, military science, medicine, management, art and other university disciplinary categories. It has strong faculty resources, with 6,633 teachers including 2,016 professors, and 69,587 full-time students.

It has partnerships with 313 universities and research institutions in 43 countries and regions. These include 50 among the world’s top 100 and 76 among the top 200. It has jointly established 49 Chinese-foreign cooperation platforms with universities and research institutions in 19 countries.