Universities

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU) is a major higher education institution in Fujian with roots going back to the Agricultural Department of Fukien Christian College (1936) and Fujian Provincial Agriculture College (1940). It took its present name after the 2000 merger of Fujian Forestry College and Fujian Agriculture University. Located in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province. Over 2,300 faculty and staff, including more than 1,600 full-time faculty (about 800 full or associate professors). Structure: 23 colleges, 72 undergraduate majors across science, engineering, agriculture, economics, management, humanities, law, medicine, and related areas. Over 24,000 full-time undergraduates and about 4,000 graduate students. Eight post-doctoral research centers; eleven first-rate doctoral programs; 23 first-rate master’s programs; seven professional master’s programs. Also hosts a national science and biology center, a national key academic program, and a training center. Since 1978 FAFU has won 655 national and provincial science/technology and social achievement awards. It pioneered JUNCAO technology and has run 50 rounds of high-level international JUNCAO training for more than 1,662 trainees; the technology has been introduced to 87 countries )

Fuzhou University, founded in 1958 in Fuzhou, Fujian, is a Double First-Class university with strengths in science and engineering alongside economics and the arts. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and welcomes international applicants on open degree pathways.

Xiamen University (XMU) was founded in 1921 by Tan Kah Kee, a prominent overseas Chinese leader, and was the first university in China founded by an overseas Chinese. It is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, ranked among the top 20 of more than 2,000 Chinese universities and colleges, with strong international recognition. Campuses lie on either side of Xiamen Bay between hills and the sea. The university has a graduate school and 26 schools or colleges with 66 departments, plus 10 research institutes. It offers 83 undergraduate, 276 master's, and 187 PhD programmes. Full-time academic and research staff number over 2,500, including 23 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. Enrollment exceeds 40,000 full-time students: 20,314 undergraduates, 17,312 master's candidates, 2,956 doctoral candidates, and over 2,700 international students plus students from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. XMU was among the earliest institutions to develop overseas education, starting overseas correspondence education in the 1950s and accepting Chinese Government Scholarship students from 1981. In total it has welcomed over 20,000 overseas correspondence students and over 10,000 foreign students from more than 100 countries