Hainan University

Merged with the South China University of Tropical Agriculture and the former Hainan University in August 2007, the present Hainan University is a key comprehensive university at provincial-level as well as a university jointly sponsored by Hainan people’s government and the Ministry of Education. It is one of the “211 Project” key universities.

The university runs three campuses, namely the Haidian campus, the Chengxi campus, and the Danzhou campus. Its main campus is the Haidian Campus, which is located on Haidian Island of Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province. The total area of the three campuses covers approximately 830 acres. There are 2,431 faculty members, with 1,596 full-time teaching staff, 900 senior lecturers and 346 doctor degrees. The total number of enrolled students amounts to 37,900. With the authority issued by State Council Overseas Chinese Office as one of the educational base, the university has cultivated more than 3,000 overseas students so far.

Hainan University highlights four aspects: tropic, ocean, special administrative region and tourism. It offers 9 categories of disciplines in philosophy, economics, law, literature, natural sciences, agriculture, engineering, and management. There the school owes a unique statue in studying of rubber and tropical agriculture. The university has 4 major academic schools including 21 colleges, and hosts 2 national level key disciplines, 1 national key support discipline, 6 national key construction disciplines of the “211” Project for higher education, 12 provincial and ministerial level key disciplines, 1 national key laboratory (cultivation base) co-managed by the Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education, 1 national level demonstration center of experimental teaching, 8 key laboratories and 4 engineering research institutes of provincial and ministerial level. There are 1 Mobile post-doctoral stations, 5 Primary Discipline Doctoral, 32 Subordinate Discipline Doctoral, 24 Primary Discipline postgraduate programs, 119 subordinate discipline postgraduate programs and 74 undergraduate programs.

Hainan University has established interschool cooperation relationships with over 80 well-known universities spread during twenties of countries. The university focus on Come In policy as well as Go Out policy. We have invited hundreds of famous scholars and professors for teaching and communication, like Zhores I. Alferov, the Nobel laureate in physics. Meantime, there would be teachers and managerial stuff be sent to overseas for learning and communication.