Huaqiao University, established in 1960 under Premier Zhou Enlai’s kind concern, is a national comprehensive university catering for students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese students. The University is located in the golden delta of South Fujian with campuses in Quanzhou and Xiamen. Under the direct leadership of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office under the State Council, it is a university given priority in construction by the Chinese government and one of universities rated “excellence” in the Assessment of Undergraduate Education Level conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is also a major base for China to develop the overseas education of the Chinese language and culture.

Colleges and Departments:
The University consists of 19 colleges or departments of science, engineering, economics, management, law, liberal arts, philosophy, and history, offering 9 PH.D programs, 64 masters programs, 6 engineering masters programs, 52 undergraduate programs, with 11 provincial or ministerial key disciplines.

Education：
Since the founding of the university 45 years ago, the University has graduated more than 76,000 students, among them over 36,000 are from overseas. The University has now 24,000 full-time on-campus students, including 3,000 overseas students from 29 countries and regions such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, America, Argentina, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Quality-oriented education of the students has proved a great success. In the recent three national “Challenge Cup” college student contests of extracurricular academic, scientific and technological works, the University has won 10 prizes, and the group scores were in the 13th, 16th, and 10th places respectively, which ranked the first among the universities and colleges in Fujian province. The men’s basketball team of the University won the national championship in the 2nd, 5th and 7th and runner-up in the 4th CUBA (China University Basketball Association) tournaments.

Faculty ：
The University has more than 1,700 faculty members, among whom over 500 hold senior professional titles. Among the 900 full time teachers, 400 are professors and associate professors, over 141 hold PhD degrees and 38 enjoy special government allowance.

Infrastructure：
The campus covers an area of 740,000 square meters with a total floor space of 550,000 square meters. The new campus in Xiamen covering 1,320,000m2 is under construction. The University is well equipped with advanced facilities for teaching and scientific research. The library has a total collection of 2,040,000 volumes of 1,030,000 titles.

Scientific Research：
The University attaches great importance to basic research and application, and has made significant achievements. According to incomplete statistics, there were over 100 scientific research projects merely from 2003 to 2004 with a total financial aid of over 10 million Yuan. In 2003, the number of scientific and technological papers retrievable in “SCI” and “EI” ranked 95th and 66th among the universities and colleges in China, and papers cited by international journals ranked 81st. The Journal of Huaqiao University (natural sciences) was one of the key national Chinese journals. The Journal (Philosophy and social sciences) was listed in “ Top 100 national university journals of social sciences” twice (in 1999 and 2002) and elected into the key Chinese journals of humanities and social sciences.

International Exchange and Cooperation：
Huaqiao University is outward-looking and has devoted much attention to interuniversity cooperation. The University has already established friendly ties with more than 30 universities and colleges in the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and the regions of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Some internationally famous scholars such as Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Daniel McFadden, Nobel Laureate in Economics, have been conferred honorary professorship by the University.