Anhui University

Anhui University (AHU, Chinese: 安徽大学) is a provincial public university in Hefei, Anhui, China, affiliated with the Anhui Provincial People's Government and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.安徽大学（AHU）是中国安徽省合肥市的一所省属公立大学，隶属安徽省人民政府，由教育部与国家国防科技工业局共建。

It is a first-batch member of Project 211 and of the Double First-Class Construction, with Materials Science and Engineering as its designated world-class discipline, and it enrols about 34,000 full-time undergraduates and 15,000 master's and doctoral students.该校是首批 211 工程与双一流建设高校，以材料科学与工程为世界一流建设学科，现有全日制本科生约 34,000 人、硕士与博士研究生 15,000 人。

Anhui University is ranked in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, 882nd in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and 301-400 in the Shanghai ARWU 2026.该校位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间、2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名 1001-1200 区间、2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学第 882 位，以及 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名 301-400 区间。

History

• The idea of an Anhui university was pressed from 1921 by Anhui-born scholars including Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Gao Yihan and Tao Xingzhi, who argued that the province's modern education lagged far behind.1921 年起，陈独秀、胡适、高一涵、陶行知等皖籍学者力主筹建安徽大学，认为安徽的近代教育远远落后。
• After the Northern Expedition the provincial government appointed an eleven-member preparatory committee that included Yu Yimi, Liu Wendian and Hu Chunlin, and borrowed premises from St. Paul's mission school in Anqing.北伐胜利后，省政府聘请余谊密、刘文典、胡春霖等 11 人组成筹备委员会，并暂借安庆圣保罗教会学校校舍。
• In February 1928 the province assigned the former Anhui Law and Politics School and Wulimiao Agricultural School sites outside Ji Xian Gate in Anqing, and the university advertised for its first students in local newspapers.1928 年 2 月，省政府将安庆集贤门外原安徽法政专门学校与五里庙甲种农业学校校址拨作校舍，学校在安庆报纸上刊登招生广告。
• Teaching began on 10 April 1928 with 142 preparatory students divided into natural science and social science classes, and that date became the university's founding anniversary.1928 年 4 月 10 日开学，首批 142 名预科学生分为自然科学与社会科学两班，这一天后来被定为校庆日。
• In August 1928 the College of Arts and Law was created with Chinese, education, political economy and law departments on a four-year course, and Liu Wendian served as its dean and head of the preparatory programme.1928 年 8 月，学校成立文法学院，设中文、教育、政经、法律四系，学制四年，刘文典任院长兼预科主任。
• In January 1929 the institution was renamed Anhui Provincial University, the college was divided into a college of arts and a college of law that February, and Wang Xinggong became president.1929 年 1 月学校更名为安徽省立大学，同年 2 月文法学院析为文学院与法学院，王星拱出任校长。
• When Japanese forces invaded in spring 1938 most teachers left, Anqing fell that June, and the provincial university was formally closed in 1939 after ten years of operation.1938 年春日军进犯，大部分教师离校，同年 6 月安庆沦陷，这所省立大学在办学十年后于 1939 年正式停办。
• Between 1928 and 1937 the university produced six cohorts and 556 graduates, and its faculty included Yao Yongpu, Liu Wendian, Chen Wangdao, Yu Dafu, Lü Simian and Zhou Jianren.1928 至 1937 年间，该校共培养六届、556 名毕业生，任教者包括姚永朴、刘文典、陈望道、郁达夫、吕思勉与周建人。
• With the province's government relocated to Jinzhai during the war, a provisional political college opened at Gubei in August 1941 and was renamed Anhui Provincial College in September 1943.抗战期间省政府迁至金寨，1941 年 8 月安徽临时政治学院在古碑冲成立，1943 年 9 月更名为省立安徽学院。
• In spring 1940 the exiled provincial government had first proposed a construction college for high-school graduates in unoccupied Anhui, a plan that evolved into the provisional political college.1940 年春，流亡的省政府最初提议为未沦陷区的高中毕业生筹办安徽建设学院，这一计划后来演变为临时政治学院。
• In January 1944 Anhui Provincial College opened a southern branch at Wan'an town in Xiuning county to reach students in the mountainous south of the province.1944 年 1 月，省立安徽学院在休宁县万安镇设立皖南分院，以招收皖南山区的学生。
• In January 1946 the national government restored the institution as National Anhui University in Anqing, with Zhu Guangqian chairing the preparatory committee and Tao Yin succeeding him as its head.1946 年 1 月，国民政府以国立安徽大学之名在安庆复校，朱光潜任筹备委员会主任，后由陶因接任。
• National Anhui University had four colleges of arts, law, science and agriculture with thirteen departments, and during its three years in Anqing it graduated 729 students.国立安徽大学设文、法、理、农四个学院、13 个系，在安庆办学的三年间共毕业 729 名学生。
• On 4 December 1949 National Anhui University moved from Anqing to Wuhu and merged with Anhui Provincial College to form the new Anhui University, which kept the old name and seal until the end of 1950.1949 年 12 月 4 日，国立安徽大学由安庆迁往芜湖，与省立安徽学院合并组成新的安徽大学，校名与印章沿用至 1950 年底。
• In July 1950 the civil engineering and art departments were transferred to Nanjing University, the first of the nationwide departmental adjustments that reshaped the university.1950 年 7 月，土木工程系与艺术系并入南京大学，这是重塑该校的全国院系调整的开端。
• Under the 1952 adjustments the economics staff and students went to Fudan University, horticulture to Zhejiang University's agricultural college and law to the East China College of Political Science and Law.1952 年院系调整中，经济系师生调往复旦大学，园艺系调往浙江大学农学院，法律系部分师生调往华东政法学院。
• Fudan's tea programme and the sericulture programmes of Nanjing and Jinling universities were moved into Anhui University at the same time, while its mathematics, physics, education and history third-year students left for East China Normal University in 1953.同期复旦大学茶叶专修科及南京大学、金陵大学蚕桑专修科并入安徽大学，而该校数学、物理、教育、历史四系三年级学生则于 1953 年调往华东师范大学。
• On 10 February 1954 the State Council abolished the Anhui University name, splitting the institution into Anhui Normal College and Anhui Agricultural College, and the agricultural college moved to Hefei that September.1954 年 2 月 10 日，政务院决定撤销安徽大学校名，将其分为安徽师范学院与安徽农学院，农学院于同年 9 月迁往合肥。
• In 1956 the provincial government planned a comprehensive university in Hefei under the name Hefei University, and in July 1958 the Chinese and history departments of Anhui Normal College moved to the new city.1956 年，省政府筹划在合肥建立综合性大学，拟定名为合肥大学；1958 年 7 月，安徽师范学院中文、历史两系迁往合肥。
• When Mao Zedong visited Hefei in September 1958, provincial first secretary Zeng Xisheng asked him to write the school's name, and Mao chose Anhui University over Hefei University, so the new institution took that name.1958 年 9 月毛泽东视察合肥，省委第一书记曾希圣请其题写校名，毛泽东认为「安徽大学」比「合肥大学」更好，新校遂定名安徽大学。
• During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 teaching was disrupted by struggle sessions and factional violence, and normal academic order was not restored until after 1976.1966 至 1976 年文化大革命期间，批斗与派系武斗扰乱教学，正常学术秩序直到 1976 年后才恢复。
• In 1973, on its 45th anniversary, the university founded the Journal of Anhui University in philosophy and social sciences and natural sciences editions, and enrolled its first worker-peasant-soldier students.1973 年建校 45 周年之际，学校创办《安徽大学学报》哲学社会科学版与自然科学版，并招收首届工农兵学员。
• In August 2013 the Ministry of Education and the Anhui provincial government signed an agreement to co-build the university, and in 2017 it entered the Double First-Class Construction.2013 年 8 月，教育部与安徽省人民政府签署共建安徽大学协议；2017 年该校进入双一流建设行列。

Academics

• The university is organised into 27 schools and departments offering 91 undergraduate programmes across philosophy, economics, law, literature, history, science, engineering, management, education and the arts.学校设 27 个院系，开设 91 个本科专业，覆盖哲学、经济学、法学、文学、历史学、理学、工学、管理学、教育学与艺术学 10 个门类。
• It holds five postdoctoral stations in computer science, electronic science, Chinese language and literature, history and chemistry, together with 11 first-level doctoral programmes and 31 first-level master's programmes.该校拥有计算机科学与技术、电子科学与技术、中国语言文学、历史学、化学 5 个博士后流动站，以及 11 个一级学科博士点与 31 个一级学科硕士点。
• Its two national key disciplines are Chinese philology and computer application technology, and electronic information engineering is its national characteristic programme.该校两个国家级重点学科为汉语言文字学与计算机应用技术，电子信息工程为国家级特色专业。
• Materials Science and Engineering is the university's Double First-Class discipline, supported by a national-local joint engineering laboratory and a materials science school.材料科学与工程是该校的双一流建设学科，依托一个国家地方联合工程实验室与材料科学学院建设。
• Eleven disciplines, including materials science, chemistry, engineering, computer science, mathematics, environment and ecology, physics and clinical medicine, rank in the global top 1 per cent of the Essential Science Indicators, four of them in the top 2 per cent.材料科学、化学、工程、计算机科学、数学、环境与生态、物理、临床医学等 11 个学科进入基本科学指标全球前 1%，其中 4 个进入前 2%。
• In the 2024 Shanghai Ranking of Best Chinese Subjects, computer science and technology, chemistry and applied economics were placed within the national top 20.在 2024 年软科中国最好学科排名中，计算机科学与技术、化学与应用经济学进入全国前 20。
• The university runs one Ministry of Education key research institute in humanities and social sciences, devoted to Huizhou studies, and two Ministry of Education key laboratories.学校设有一个教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地——徽学研究中心，以及两个教育部重点实验室。
• The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, under the Ministry of Education, supports research in computing, signal processing and intelligent systems.教育部智能计算与信号处理重点实验室支撑计算、信号处理与智能系统方向的研究。
• It also operates a Ministry of Education engineering research centre, nine provincial key laboratories, three provincial engineering technology centres and a CMA-certified modern experiment centre.学校还设有教育部工程研究中心、9 个省级重点实验室、3 个省级工程技术研究中心以及获国家 CMA 计量认证的现代实验技术中心。
• Teaching staff number about 2,399, including 210 professors and 490 associate professors, spread across the 27 schools and departments that deliver the 91 undergraduate programmes.该校教职工约 2,399 人，其中教授 210 人、副教授 490 人，分布于承担 91 个本科专业的 27 个院系。
• There are more than 34,000 full-time undergraduates and 15,000 master's and doctoral students, and roughly 500 international students are enrolled on campus.该校有全日制本科生 34,000 余人、硕士与博士研究生 15,000 人，在校国际学生约 500 人。
• Since its founding the university has trained more than 390,000 graduates, making it one of Anhui's largest sources of university-trained professionals.建校以来，该校已培养 390,000 余名毕业生，是安徽培养大学专业人才最多的院校之一。
• The university library holds more than 1.75 million books and over 7,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals, with separate libraries on the main and new campuses.该校图书馆藏书 175 万余册，中外文期刊 7,000 余种，主校区与新校区各设一座馆舍。
• International exchange is conducted under agreements with 74 overseas universities, and the university has admitted foreign students since 1980.该校与 74 所海外大学签订交流协议，自 1980 年起招收外国留学生。
• In 2000 the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council designated it a Teaching Base for Chinese Language and Culture, and it is approved to enrol Chinese Government Scholarship students.2000 年，国务院侨务办公室将该校列为华文教育基地，学校亦获批招收中国政府奖学金留学生。
• More than 700 international students from Asia, America and Europe have studied at the university, most of them in Chinese language, economics and engineering programmes.来自亚洲、美洲与欧洲的 700 多名国际学生在该校学习，多数攻读汉语、经济学与工程类专业。
• Its 27 schools include mathematics, physics and materials science, chemistry and chemical engineering, life sciences, computer science, electronics and information engineering, electrical engineering and automation, and resources and environmental engineering.其 27 个院系包括数学科学、物理与材料科学、化学化工、生命科学、计算机科学与技术、电子信息工程、电气工程与自动化、资源与环境工程等学院。
• The Internet School began independent undergraduate enrolment in 2017, and the university has since added schools of artificial intelligence and integrated circuits to match national priorities.互联网学院自 2017 级起独立招收本科生，学校此后又增设人工智能学院与集成电路学院，以对接国家战略需求。

Campus

• The university has four campuses, Qingyuan, Longhe, Jinzhaolu and Jianghuai, plus a university science park and a Future College under construction, covering more than 3,200 mu of land.学校现有磬苑、龙河、金寨路、江淮四个校区，另有一个大学科技园与在建的未来学院，校园占地 3,200 余亩。
• Total floor space reaches 1.27 million square metres, and the two principal campuses are Longhe, the historic site, and Qingyuan, the modern centre of science and engineering teaching.校舍建筑面积达 127 万平方米，两个主要校区为历史悠久的龙河校区与理工科教学重镇磬苑校区。
• The Qingyuan campus stands beside Feicui Lake Park and next to Hefei University of Technology, forming part of the Hefei University Town in the city's southwestern expansion zone.磬苑校区坐落于翡翠湖公园旁，与合肥工业大学相邻，是合肥西南城区大学城的组成部分。
• Qingyuan's buildings adopt a neo-Huizhou style with white walls, dark tiles and horse-head gables, a deliberate reference to the vernacular architecture of southern Anhui.磬苑校区建筑采用仿徽派风格，粉墙黛瓦、马头墙错落，刻意呼应皖南民居建筑。
• The Longhe campus main teaching building was listed in 2012 as a cultural relic protected at the provincial level in the sixth batch of Anhui's designations.龙河校区教学主楼于 2012 年被列入第六批安徽省文物保护单位。
• Most science and engineering undergraduates and graduate students study at Qingyuan, while first-year students in the humanities and some arts programmes are taught at Longhe.多数理工科本科与研究生在磬苑校区学习，部分人文与艺术类新生则在龙河校区就读。
• The university's main commercial street runs along Jiulong Road by the west gate, and bus routes 149 and 128 connect the campus with the rest of Hefei.该校主要商业街位于西门九龙路，149 路与 128 路公交车将校园与合肥市区相连。
• The Jinzhaolu campus and the newer Jianghuai campus extend the university's footprint, while the science park houses spin-off companies and technology transfer offices.金寨路校区与较新的江淮校区拓展了办学空间，大学科技园则入驻衍生企业与技术转移机构。
• Hefei, the provincial capital, is one of China's principal science cities and hosts the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and several national research institutes.省会合肥是中国主要科学城市之一，拥有合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室及多家国家级研究院所。

Reputation

• Anhui University is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the global table in which it is currently listed.安徽大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间，这是其目前所处的全球榜单。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 1001-1200 band, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 882nd.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1001-1200 区间，2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名将其列为第 882 位。
• In the Shanghai ARWU 2026 it stands in the 301-400 band, the strongest of its four main global rankings.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 301-400 区间，是其四大全球主榜中最好的一项。
• It is a first-batch member of Project 211 and entered the Double First-Class Construction in 2017 with Materials Science and Engineering as its designated discipline.该校是首批 211 工程高校，并于 2017 年以材料科学与工程为建设学科进入双一流行列。
• Eleven of its disciplines sit in the global top 1 per cent of the Essential Science Indicators, and four of those reach the top 2 per cent.该校 11 个学科进入基本科学指标全球前 1%，其中 4 个进入前 2%。
• The 2024 Shanghai Ranking of Best Chinese Subjects placed computer science and technology, chemistry and applied economics among the national top 20.2024 年软科中国最好学科排名将计算机科学与技术、化学与应用经济学列入全国前 20。
• OpenAlex indexes 47,563 research works and 2,205,902 citations for the university, one of the largest research outputs in this ranking band.OpenAlex 收录该校 47,563 篇研究成果与 2,205,902 次引用，在本排名区间内属于产出规模最大的院校之一。
• Its strengths in materials science, chemistry, computer science and Huizhou studies give it a distinctive profile among provincial universities in central China.该校在材料科学、化学、计算机科学与徽学方面的优势，使其在中国中部省属高校中特色鲜明。
• The university's provincial funding base and its co-construction agreement with the Ministry of Education underpin its position as Anhui's flagship comprehensive university.该校的省级财政基础以及与教育部的共建协议，支撑其作为安徽龙头综合性大学的地位。

Student life

• The university motto is Zhi Cheng Zhi Jian, Bo Xue Du Xing, usually rendered as ultimate sincerity and firmness, broad learning and earnest practice.该校校训为「至诚至坚，博学笃行」，意为极致的真诚与坚定、广博的学识与切实的躬行。
• Its anniversary falls on 10 April, the day in 1928 when the first 142 preparatory students began classes in Anqing.该校校庆日为 4 月 10 日，即 1928 年首批 142 名预科学生在安庆开课的日子。
• Freshmen in most science and engineering programmes live and study at Qingyuan, where the campus beside Feicui Lake gives students access to parks, shops and the university town's shared facilities.多数理工科新生在磬苑校区学习生活，翡翠湖旁的校园使学生可使用公园、商铺与大学城的共享设施。
• Students in the humanities and some arts programmes spend their early years at Longhe, the older campus whose teaching building dates from the university's reconstruction in the 1950s.人文与部分艺术类学生低年级在龙河校区度过，该老校区教学楼可追溯至 1950 年代的学校重建时期。
• The university has a national-level experiment teaching centre and a provincial-level one, giving undergraduates laboratory access from their first years.该校建有国家级与省级实验教学示范中心，使本科生从低年级起即可进入实验室。
• Student activities are organised through the schools and the university's youth league, with academic competitions, volunteer services and campus cultural festivals held each year.学生活动由各学院与校团委组织，每年举办学科竞赛、志愿服务与校园文化节。
• The Jiulong Road commercial street by the west gate and bus routes 149 and 128 shape daily student life, linking dormitories to Hefei's commercial districts.西门九龙路商业街与 149 路、128 路公交构成学生日常生活的动线，将宿舍区与合肥商业区连接起来。
• With about 500 international students from Asia, America and Europe, the campus runs Chinese-language and cultural orientation programmes for foreign students alongside degree courses.校园内有来自亚洲、美洲与欧洲的约 500 名国际学生，学校为留学生开设汉语与文化适应课程，并同时提供学位课程。

Notable people

• Liu Wendian, a scholar of Chinese classical literature, served as dean of the College of Arts and Law and as head of the university in its first years after 1928.刘文典是中国古典文学学者，1928 年后曾任文法学院院长并主持校务。
• Wang Xinggong, a philosopher and university administrator, became president in 1929 and pushed the institution to meet the national standards for a full university.王星拱是哲学家与大学管理者，1929 年出任校长，推动学校达到国立大学标准。
• Cheng Yansheng and Tao Yin led the institution in the 1930s and 1940s, Tao Yin heading the preparatory committee that restored National Anhui University in 1946.程演生与陶因在 1930 至 1940 年代主持校务，陶因领导了 1946 年国立安徽大学复校筹备委员会。
• Zhu Guangqian, one of China's foremost aestheticians, was appointed to chair the 1946 restoration committee before withdrawing and being succeeded by Tao Yin.朱光潜是中国最重要的美学家之一，1946 年被任命为复校筹备委员会主任，后辞任并由陶因接替。
• Chen Wangdao, translator of the Communist Manifesto and a linguist, taught at the provincial university in the 1930s alongside the writer Yu Dafu.陈望道是《共产党宣言》译者与语言学家，1930 年代与作家郁达夫一同在该校任教。
• Lü Simian, a historian known for his general history of China, and Zhou Jianren, a biologist and social commentator, were also members of the teaching staff.以《中国通史》闻名的历史学家吕思勉与生物学家、社会评论家周建人亦曾在该校任教。
• Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu, central figures of the New Culture Movement, were among the scholars who campaigned from 1921 for the creation of a university in Anhui.新文化运动的核心人物胡适与陈独秀，是 1921 年起倡建安徽大学的学者之列。
• Tao Xingzhi, the education reformer, joined the same campaign and later became one of China's best-known advocates of rural and vocational education.教育改革家陶行知参与了同一倡议，后成为中国最著名的乡村教育与职业教育倡导者之一。
• Zeng Xisheng, first secretary of the Anhui provincial party committee, asked Mao Zedong to inscribe the school's name in 1958 and shaped its post-1958 reconstruction.安徽省委第一书记曾希圣于 1958 年请毛泽东题写校名，并主导了 1958 年后的学校重建。
• Kuang Guangli, a physicist, served as president before Sun Changyin, who is the current president of the university.物理学家匡光力曾任校长，现任校长为孙长银。
• Sun Changyin, a control engineer, leads the university in the 2020s as it expands its Jianghuai campus and its artificial intelligence and integrated circuit schools.控制工程学者孙长银在 2020 年代领导该校，推进江淮校区以及人工智能学院与集成电路学院的建设。