Universities

Hainan Normal University is in Haikou, a coastal tourist city and a national historical and cultural city. Hainan is China’s southernmost province and its only tropical island province. The climate is warm and subtropical, with an average yearly temperature of 23.8°C. Founded in 1949, it is a key higher education institution in Hainan Province. It has two campuses, Longkunnan and Guilin Yang, covering about 3,100 mu. The university has 25 schools, 65 undergraduate majors, 19 first-level master’s programs, 21 professional master’s programs, and 6 doctoral programs, so students can study from bachelor’s through doctoral level. About 25,000 full-time students study here, including more than 500 international students. There are 2,166 staff members, including 1,397 full-time teachers and researchers and 714 senior faculty. The university has 4 post-doctoral research stations and 21 academician innovation platforms. The Ministry of Education selected it as one of the second batch of pilot units for AI-powered teacher training. International student enrollment began in 1988. It was among the first institutions approved by the former State Education Commission to enroll international students, and one of the earliest Chinese language education bases set up by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. It jointly runs a Confucius Institute with SEGI University in Malaysia. It can receive Chinese Government Scholarship students and International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarship students, among other awards

Hainan University, formed in 2007 through the merger of two institutions, is a provincial-level comprehensive university jointly supported by the Hainan Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education. Its three campuses—Haidian (the main campus on Haidian Island in Haikou), Chengxi, and Danzhou—span around 830 acres across tropical southern China. The university hosts over 37,000 students and employs more than 2,400 faculty members, including nearly 1,600 full-time teaching staff. It organises studies across nine disciplinary categories, with distinctive strengths in tropical agriculture, marine science, and regional development linked to Hainan’s geography and administrative status. Four academic schools oversee 21 colleges, and the university maintains national and provincial research platforms, including a co-managed key laboratory and doctoral programmes across multiple disciplines.