Shanxi University

Shanxi University

Shanxi University is located in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi Province, a historic cultural metropolis with a history of 2,500 years. The university originated from Shanxi Grand School, established in 1902, and its long-standing academic legacy can be traced back to the Sanli Academy of the Ming Dynasty and the Jinyang and Lingde Academies of the Qing Dynasty. In its early days, Shanxi Grand School integrated both Chinese and Western elements, with equal emphasis on the humanities and sciences, and featured an open-minded educational philosophy and advanced teaching ideals. It stands as one of the important cradles of modern higher education in China and a major hub of cultural and educational development in the Shanxi region over the past century. Over its 114-year history, Shanxi University has remained rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese civilization, dedicated to the mission of “teaching profound knowledge, cultivating outstanding talents, and meeting the needs of the nation.” Upholding the honored traditions of “bridging Chinese and Western learning, seeking truth and excellence, nurturing talent, and striving for national strength,” and promoting the fine school spirit of “diligence, rigor, integrity, and innovation,” the university has educated more than 200,000 outstanding talents and made significant contributions to the development of China’s higher education. Nurturing talent through the centuries, it continues to write new chapters in this prosperous era. In recent years, shouldering the mission of revitalizing the country through science and education and strengthening the nation with talent, Shanxi University has achieved leapfrog development and grown into a high-level comprehensive university with balanced strengths in the humanities, sciences, and engineering. In 1998, it became a key university under construction in Shanxi Province. In 2003, it received an excellent evaluation in the undergraduate teaching assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education. In 2005, it became a provincially and ministry-jointly administered university, jointly developed by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education. In 2012, Shanxi University was selected as one of the 14 universities nationwide under the “Comprehensive Strength Improvement Project for Universities in Central and Western China,” entering a new platform for building “distinctive, high-level” universities at the national level. In 2014, with the approval of the Ministry of Education and the Shanxi Provincial People's Government, the 60-year-old Taiyuan University of Electric Power, a specialized college, was merged into Shanxi University.

The university offers a comprehensive range of disciplines and boasts strong research capabilities. It is home to a number of key academic platforms, including national key disciplines, national key laboratories, key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, key research bases for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education. It offers 91 undergraduate majors, 2 junior college majors, and 10 double-degree undergraduate programs across 12 major disciplines—covering the humanities, history, philosophy, science, engineering, agriculture, economics, management, law, education, art, and medicine. Currently, there are 15 first-level doctoral degree authorization disciplines, 5 second-level doctoral degree authorization disciplines, 37 first-level master’s degree authorization disciplines, 13 second-level master’s degree authorization disciplines, 19 types of master’s professional degree programs, 2 independently established interdisciplinary doctoral and master’s degree programs each, and 3 second-level doctoral and master’s degree programs outside the official directory each. In recent years, the university has seen a steady increase in national projects such as the “973 Program,” “863 Program,” National Natural Science Foundation, and National Social Science Fund, and has won 16 national research awards, including the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Second Prize of the National Technology Invention Award, the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of the Outstanding Research Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences of Higher Education Institutions by the Ministry of Education.

Address: No. 92 Wucheng Road, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province Postal Code: 030006

Tel: 0351-7010255