About Us

Xiamen University is the only key comprehensive university directly affiliated with the Education Ministry and located at any of the five special economic zones at present. It is founded by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, the well-known patriotic overseas Chinese leader in 1921.With 20 schools containing 37 departments, Xiamen University has become a comprehensive university providing a fairly complete range of educational programs in humanities, social sciences, natural science, engineering and technology, management, art education, and medical science. The university now offers 70 undergraduate programs and 157 graduate programs, including 4 post-doctoral programs and 87 Ph.D. programs. With an area of 367 acres,the beautiful campus of Xiamen University locates in the south of Xiamen island, backing on hills and near the sea.The new campus----Zhangzhou campus,which faces the Xiamen campus across the sea,is now in formal operation.

TCM overseas education of our school began in 1956.At present,it provides full-time undergraduate courses of TCM,distance undergraduate and professional courses of TCM and Acupuncture and moxibustion, advavced courses of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Chinese Traumato-orthopedics and Tuina,as well as short-term courses of TCM,Acupuncture and Moxibustion,Scalp-acupuncture,Ear-acupuncture,Medicated Diet,Health Preservation,Diet Therapy and Medicinal Tea,etc.All the courses are aimed at students coming from south-east Asia countries,Hongkongg,Macao and Taiwan regions as well as other countries and regions.By now,we have attracted more than 20,000 foreign students coming from more than 50 countries and regions.Some of them have become well-known personage or specialists ,who have made great contributions to serving the people and spreading Chinese cultures in the countries and regions they live in.