Qinghai University is located in the northern suburbs of Xining City, the capital of Qinghai Province, the "summer capital". Science University.
Qinghai University was formerly known as Qinghai Institute of Technology and was founded in 1958. In November 1960, Qinghai Institute of Technology merged with Qinghai Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College, Qinghai Medical College, and Qinghai College of Finance and Economics to form Qinghai University. Qinghai University was abolished at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution". In 1971, it was restored to the Qinghai Institute of Technology and Agriculture, which included the disciplines of the two universities. In 1988, it was renamed Qinghai University. With the adjustment of the layout and structure of universities, Qinghai College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine was merged in October 1997. In January 2001, Qinghai Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Qinghai Academy of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, and Qinghai Vocational and Technical College of Finance and Economics were merged into the integrated system. In 2004, Qinghai Medical College was merged. Joined and established the new Qinghai University.
The school campus covers an area of ??2,850 acres, with a total building area of ??600,000 square meters, including 203,000 square meters of teaching and administrative buildings. The total value of fixed assets is 609 million yuan, the total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 73.57 million yuan, the school library covers an area of ??11,800 square meters, and has a collection of more than 1.15 million books. Publicly publish academic journals such as "Journal of Qinghai University", "Journal of Qinghai University Medical College", "Qinghai Journal of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine", "Qinghai Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology". The school consists of 7 colleges and 29 departments (departments) including the School of Medicine, College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, College of Finance and Economics, College of Chemical Engineering, College of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, and Affiliated Hospitals; it also has 12 professional research institutes such as the Animal Husbandry Research Institute and the Crop Breeding and Cultivation Research Institute. There are "National Long-term Crop Germplasm Resource Qinghai Duplicate Bank", "National Rapeseed Improvement Qinghai Branch", "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Agricultural Analysis Center", "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau New Crop Variety Quality Testing Center" and the "Potato" aided by the EU There are 5 national experimental research centers including the "Virus Testing Center"; there are "Key Laboratory of Plateau Medicine of the Ministry of Education" and "Key Laboratory of Plateau Biotechnology' built by the Ministry of Education"; there are plateau animal diseases, chemical engineering principles , advanced materials and applied technology, spring rapeseed breeding, water conservancy and hydropower, plateau building materials, basic medicine, plateau medical research center, clinical medical experiment center, grassland ecological environment, information technology research and application, basic chemistry, pharmacy, etc. 15 provincial-level Key laboratories and basic industrial teaching demonstration center "provincial teaching training base".
The school currently offers 55 undergraduate majors, 23 master’s programs, and 2 doctoral programs. The disciplines and majors have formed a pattern with the four major disciplines of engineering, agriculture, medicine, and management as the main disciplines, and the coordinated development of other disciplines. Among them, there are agronomy, animal medicine, animal science, grassland science, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, machinery manufacturing and automation, There are 14 "provincial key disciplines" and 3 "provincial key medical disciplines" including chemical engineering and technology, basic medicine, preventive medicine, Tibetan medicine, business administration, civil engineering, horticulture, and regional economics.
The school currently has 3,728 faculty members, including 1,197 teaching and teaching assistants, 1,454 full-time scientific researchers and medical staff; 235 with senior professional titles, 776 with associate senior professional titles, and 1,200 with intermediate professional titles. Among the full-time teachers, there are 32 doctors and 289 masters. Among the professional and technical personnel, there are 27 experts enjoying government subsidies, 2 New Century Excellent Talents, 1 person selected into the national "New Century Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project", 2 National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talents, 1 Ministry of Education Young Teacher Award, and National There are 7 provincial outstanding teachers, 1 "provincial famous teaching teacher", 13 provincial key teachers, 12 provincial famous doctors, 5 provincial chief medical experts, and 37 provincial leaders in natural science and engineering technology. , 7 provincial-level outstanding experts, and 9 high-level talents contacted by the leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. The school recruits students from 25 provinces and regions across the country and currently has 11,102 full-time students, including 8,231 undergraduates and 320 master's students.
In the past five years, the school has obtained 433 scientific research projects of various types, including the National Key Basic Research and Development Plan (973) project, the National High-tech Research and Development Plan (863) project, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 30 projects, National Social Science Fund, etc., 291 provincial and ministerial projects, total scientific research funding of 116.1912 million yuan; won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 9 national invention patents, "Qinghai Province's First Science and Technology Major Contribution Award" 1, 18 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and more than 4,000 academic papers published in various domestic and foreign publications.
While receiving counterpart support from Tsinghua University, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, and China University of Geosciences, the school has established good relationships with well-known foreign universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, Kochi University in Japan, and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. inter-school collaborative relationships.
In recent years, the school has successively won the titles of “National Advanced School for Party Building and Ideological and Political Work”, “Model School for School Management by Law” by the Ministry of Education, “Qinghai Provincial Civilized Unit”, and “National College Students’ Three Summer Sessions for Social Practice in the Countryside” "Advanced Collective" and other honorary titles.