Jinan University

Jinan University
暨南大学
Former names
Jinan Academy, Jinan School, National Jinan University
Motto忠信笃敬[1]
Motto in English
loyalty, sincerity, integrity and respect[2]
TypeNational
EstablishedEstablished 1906; 118 years ago (1906)
Reestablished 1958; 66 years ago (1958)
ChairmanWan Gang
PresidentXing Feng (邢锋)
CCP SecretaryLin Rupeng (林如鹏)
Academic staff
1917
Students50,535
Undergraduates22,527
Postgraduates10,767
Location, ,
China
NicknameJNU
AffiliationsGHMUA
Websiteenglish.jnu.edu.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese暨南大学
Traditional Chinese暨南大學
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJìnán Dàxué
Wade–GilesChi-nan Ta-hsuëh
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationKei Nàahm Daaih Hohk
JyutpingKei3 Naam4 Daai6 Hok6

Jinan University (/dʒiː'nan/; JNU, Chinese: 暨南大学) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the United Front Work Department.[3] The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction and Project 211.[4][5]

Jinan University is currently being jointly constructed by the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party, the Ministry of Education of China, and the Guangdong Provincial Government as a "Double First-Class" university.[6] It is also a key construction university under the "Project 211" and one of the 13 Guangdong Province High-Level Universities. Its admission scores have consistently ranked among the top three universities in Guangdong Province. Jinan University holds a unique position in the history of overseas Chinese and Chinese language education and is the first Chinese university to recruit foreign students. It is renowned as the "highest institution of overseas Chinese."[7] The university features a distinctive educational approach focusing on "overseas, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan." Jinan University consistently ranks among the top mainland Chinese universities in terms of the number of students from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and abroad. Jinan University is one of the earliest universities in China to offer business education and is the fifth university in mainland China to be accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).

"Jinan" literally means "reaching southward," indicating the university's original mission to disseminate Chinese learning and culture from North to South when it was founded in 1906 in Nanjing. It is the first Chinese university to recruit foreign students and one of the universities with the largest number of international students in China.[4]

  1. ^ "校训 校徽 校歌". Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  2. ^ "JNU Motto & Spirit". Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  3. ^ "国家机构改革后,暨南大学归属中央统战部、国务院侨办领导_中国政库_澎湃新闻-The Paper". m.thepaper.cn. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  4. ^ a b 学校简介 - 暨南大学 - 华侨最高学府-国家"211工程"重点综合性大学. www.jnu.edu.cn (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  5. ^ "教育部 财政部 国家发展改革委 关于公布世界一流大学和一流学科建设高校及建设 学科名单的通知 (Notice from the Ministry of Education and other national governmental departments announcing the list of double first class universities and disciplines)".
  6. ^ "Jinan University".
  7. ^ "中国最高华侨学府暨南大学庆祝建校105周年". Archived from the original on 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2013-01-06.