Yulin University

Yulin University (YLU) is located in the city of Yulin, designated as one of the famous historical and cultural cities in China by the State Council. It features Energy and Chemistry Engineering with the advantage of standing in one of the State-level energy bases - Yulin City. YLU is a public university directly under the Shaanxi Provincial Government, and is entitled to offer both degree and non-degree programs. YLU grew out of Suide Teachers’ College, established in the year of 1958. In 1980 the college moved from the northern suburbs of Suide City to the western suburbs of Yulin City. In 1991 the college was renamed Yulin College after merging with Yulin College of Agriculture and Forestry, which was set up in 1985. In 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the college, which used to offer non-degree programs only, was upgraded to a university, thereby becoming entitled to offer both degree and non-degree programs. In 2018, YLU was designated by the Ministry of Education as a new authorized unit for Master Degree, and was also designated by Shaanxi Provincial Government as a first-class application-oriented undergraduate university construction unit. After 60 years of great efforts, YLU is an environmentally beautiful and well-furnished modern institution of higher learning. The campus is set amidst picturesque scenery with many trees, green grass, running water and fragrant flowers, making it an excellent environment for teaching, learning and living. YLU covers an area of 560,000 m2. With 13 schools, 1 department, 7 research centers and institutes, YLU provides a complete range of education programs in social science, natural science, engineering, technology, management, arts, law and education, including 55 undergraduate programs. There are approximately 13,000 full-time registered students. The staff totals 974, of which 759 belong to the faculty, including 81 professors and 267 associate professors. YLU also recruits 6 foreign experts each year and 30 scholars have been engaged as part-time professors. YLU Campus LAN, which is connected with Internet through fibers optics, operates at 1,000 M bps. The Journal of Yulin University and The Yulin University Newspaper are distributed throughout the country. YLU is actively engaged in international exchange and cooperation programs, and has built up strong ties with foreign and overseas universities and international organizations, such as University of Wolverhampton in the UK, Arkansas State University and Valparaiso University in the US, University of Canberra in Australia, Silla University in Korea, Osaka University in Japan, University of Malaya in Malaysia, Northern University of Malaysia, Putra University of Malaysia, ESIC Business and Marketing School in Spain, Tamkang University and Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan, and VSO and OTP in Britain and AFS in the US. YLU and University of Wolverhampton has an ongoing Ministry-of-Education’s approved joint-undergraduate program, and YLU and Valparaiso University has an ongoing joint-postgraduate program. Over the last 60 years, YLU has graduated 60,000 students, who are working in different sectors of the local community and have made remarkable contributions to the development of the regional economy and the local society. YLU’s strategic plan, through optimizing its disciplinary structures and continuously improving its teaching quality, is to develop into a regional comprehensive application-oriented university. YLU will then provide an even more complete range of education programs and train a greater variety of qualified personnel not only for the Yulin Area but also for the whole of Northern Shaanxi and the other neighboring regions. To achieve this goal, YLU will make every effort to perfect the programs intended to train future middle school teachers, attach great importance to programs for training agronomic and husbandry technicians, lay special emphasis on the development of programs in the areas of energy resources, chemical industry, machinery, electrical engineering and business management. In the meantime, YLU will continue the development of continuing education, vocational education and vocational training. To sum up, YLU will engage with the local government in the design and development of the economy, society and culture of the local and neighboring communities, and develop itself into a regional, technical, personnel training center, an applied scientific research center, an information center and an advanced culture center.