Hainan University

Hainan University (HNU) was a merger with the former South China University of Tropical Agriculture in August 2007. It is a comprehensive key university jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Hainan Provincial People’s Government. The campuses of the University cover an area of 4.087 million square meters. HNU has 42,000 full-time students, 31 secondary schools, 13 first-level discipline doctorate programs, one professional doctorate program, 34 first-level discipline master’s programs, 21 professional master’s degree programs, 69 undergraduate programs, six centers for post-doctoral studies, 45 state-level first-class undergraduate programs, six state-level first-class undergraduate courses, two state-level excellent courses, one state-level excellent online open course, and two designated as exemplary ideological and political education courses by the MOE. The disciplines offered by the University cover major fields such as philosophy, economics, law, humanities, science, medicine, agriculture, engineering, management, and art. Crop Science has been selected as a world-class discipline for two consecutive rounds, and eight disciplines, Plant and Animal Science, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, Engineering Science, Environmental Science and Ecology, Biology and biochemistry as well as General social science are ranked among the top 1% worldwide according to ESI (Essential Science Indicators). The University employs more than 2,700 full-time teachers, including 60 national-level researchers such as academicians, Changjiang Scholars, and China National Distinguished Young Scholars. Among them are one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada, one foreign fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan, one foreign fellow of the Russian Academy of Engineering, two fellows of the European Academy of Sciences, and four national-level teaching masters.