Jimei University

Jimei University is a provincial public university in Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian, China, co-funded by the Fujian Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Xiamen Municipal People's Government.集美大学是一所位于中国福建厦门集美区的省属公立大学，由福建省人民政府、交通运输部、自然资源部和厦门市人民政府共建。

It traces its origin to the Teachers Department of the Jimei School founded by the overseas Chinese philanthropist Tan Kah Kee in 1918, and it was formed as a university in 1994 by merging five predecessor colleges.学校源于华侨领袖陈嘉庚1918年创办的集美学校师范部，1994年由五所前身院校合并组建为集美大学。

The university has 21 colleges, about 32,900 students and more than 1,650 full-time teachers on a 2,500 mu campus in the Jimei school village area of Xiamen, and its programs range from navigation and marine engineering to fisheries, food science, teacher education, finance and the arts.学校设有21个学院，在校生约32900人，专任教师1650余人，校园位于厦门集美学村区域，占地2500亩；专业涵盖航海、轮机、水产、食品、师范、财经与艺术等领域。

History

• Tan Kah Kee, a rubber magnate and philanthropist who built his fortune in British Malaya, founded the Jimei schools in 1913 and added a teachers department in 1918, which became the earliest predecessor of Jimei University.橡胶实业家、慈善家陈嘉庚在英属马来亚经营橡胶业积累财富，于1913年创办集美学校，1918年增设师范部，后者成为集美大学最早的源头。
• In 1920 the Jimei School added a fisheries department and a business department, the origins of the university's navigation, fisheries and finance programs.1920年，集美学校增设水产科和商科，这两科成为学校航海、水产与财经类专业的源头。
• In the same year Tan Kah Kee added an agriculture and forestry school to the Jimei schools, so that the village trained teachers, fishermen, merchants and farmers within a single educational complex on the Xiamen coast.同年，陈嘉庚在集美学校中增设农林学校，使学村在厦门沿海形成一个同时培养师资、渔业、商业与农林人才的教育综合体。
• The teachers department trained primary and secondary school teachers for Fujian and overseas Chinese communities until it was suspended in 1938, the year Xiamen fell to Japanese forces.师范部为福建和华侨社区培养中小学教师，直至1938年厦门沦陷、抗战局势恶化时停办。
• Between the 1920s and the 1950s the fisheries department passed through a series of names, becoming a fisheries division, a fisheries and navigation division, an advanced navigation school and a senior vocational fisheries and navigation school.从20世纪20年代到50年代，集美水产科历经水产部、水产航海部、高级航海学校、水产航海职业学校等阶段，最终定名为高级水产航海职业学校。
• The fisheries department evolved through several stages, and in 1958 it split into a fisheries school and a navigation school, separating marine training from fishing technology.水产科几经变迁，1958年分为水产学校和航海学校，把航海训练与捕捞技术分开办学。
• During the Cultural Revolution the navigation school was merged into the oceanography department of Xiamen University, and it was re-established as the Jimei Navigation School in 1972.文化大革命期间，航海学校曾并入厦门大学海洋系，1972年重办为集美航海学校。
• In 1978 the navigation school was upgraded to Jimei Navigation College at junior-college level, and in 1989 it became a full navigation college.1978年，航海学校升格为大专层次的集美航海专科学校，1989年改办为集美航海学院。
• In May 1972 the Shanghai Fisheries School moved to Jimei and founded Xiamen Fisheries College, which was jointly run by the national fisheries administration and Fujian province, with the national body taking the lead.1972年5月，上海水产学校迁来集美创办厦门水产学院，由全国水产主管部门与福建省双重领导，以水产主管部门为主。
• After the Shanghai Fisheries College was restored in May 1979, some programs moved back to Shanghai while Xiamen Fisheries College continued to operate in Jimei. The Shanghai institution later became Shanghai Ocean University.1979年5月上海水产学院恢复后，部分专业迁回上海，厦门水产学院仍在集美继续办学；上海水产学院后来发展为上海海洋大学。
• Xiamen Fisheries College became one of the 16 higher agricultural institutions under the national agriculture and fisheries ministry after that ministry was created.国家农牧渔业部成立后，厦门水产学院成为其部属16所高等农业院校之一。
• The Fujian Sports School was founded in Fuzhou in 1958, became the Fujian Sports College in July 1959 and was suspended in 1962, after training physical education teachers and athletes for the province.福建体育学校1958年在福州创办，1959年7月改为福建体育学院，1962年停办，其间为全省培养体育师资与运动员。
• In 1974 a sports school was re-established at Jimei on the site of the old sailing club, and in December 1978 the State Council approved its expansion into the Fujian Sports College.1974年，学校在集美原航海俱乐部基础上创办福建体育学校，1978年12月经国务院批准扩建为福建体育学院。
• The Jimei teachers college began in 1958 as the Xiamen Normal College on Gulangyu island, was renamed Xiamen Normal College in 1960 and was merged into the Fujian Second Normal College in Zhangzhou in 1963.集美师范教育始于1958年在鼓浪屿创办的厦门师范专科学校，1960年改称厦门师范学院，1963年秋并入漳州的福建省第二师范学院。
• A teacher-training program resumed in 1975, and the Xiamen Normal College was re-established at Jimei in April 1979 and renamed Jimei Normal College in August 1980.1975年师范大专班复办，1979年4月在集美重新成立厦门师范专科学校，1980年8月改名为集美师范专科学校。
• The business department founded in 1920 developed through commercial and finance schools and became the Jimei Finance College in April 1984 as a provincial institution.1920年创办的商科历经商业学校、财经学校等阶段，1984年4月经福建省政府批准升格为省属集美财政专科学校。
• In 1994 the Jimei Navigation College, Xiamen Fisheries College, Fujian Sports College, Jimei Finance College and Jimei Teachers College merged to form Jimei University. The five institutions had developed separately for decades, and some traced their origins to the 1920s.1994年，集美航海学院、厦门水产学院、福建体育学院、集美财经高等专科学校和集美师范高等专科学校合并组建集美大学；这五所院校各自发展数十年，其中一些可追溯到20世纪20年代。
• The five-college merger was completed in October 1994, when the former Jimei Teachers College became the university's teachers college and the other four schools formed its navigation, fisheries, sports and finance faculties.五校合并于1994年10月完成，原集美师范高等专科学校改设为师范学院，其余四校则构成学校的航海、水产、体育与财经院系。
• In 2003 the university established Chengyi College as an independent college, and in 2004 the former Xiamen Industrial School, a secondary school attached to Lujiang Vocational University, was merged into the university.2003年，学校创办独立学院诚毅学院；2004年，原鹭江职业大学附属的厦门工业学校并入集美大学。
• Also in 2004 the Fujian provincial government designated Jimei University as one of its key universities for priority construction.同样在2004年，福建省政府将集美大学确定为省级重点建设高校之一。
• In 2008 the university passed the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching evaluation with an excellent grade.2008年，学校以“优秀”成绩通过教育部本科教学工作水平评估。
• On 2 February 2013 the provincial degree committee completed its review of the university's doctoral program, and on 19 July the State Council's degree committee formally approved doctoral degree authority.2013年2月2日，学校通过省学位委员会组织的新增博士学位授予单位立项建设整体验收；7月19日，国务院学位委员会正式批准其博士学位授予权。
• The university enrolled its first doctoral students in 2013, adding a research degree on top of its long-standing undergraduate and master's programs.学校于2013年正式开始博士招生，在长期本科与硕士教育之上增加了研究型学位。
• In August 2018 a Jimei University team won the third League of Legends International College Cup in Xi'an, defeating the engineering school of the University of Porto.2018年8月，集美大学战队在西安击败葡萄牙波尔图大学工程学院，夺得第三届英雄联盟全球高校冠军杯。
• In July 2019 the team defended the title at the Hong Kong Esports Music Festival by beating Maryville University.2019年7月，战队在香港电竞音乐节上击败玛丽维尔大学，成功卫冕。
• The university celebrated its centenary in 2018, a hundred years after the founding of the Jimei School teachers department.2018年，学校迎来建校百年，距集美学校师范部创办恰好一百年。

Academics

• Jimei University has 21 colleges, including navigation, marine engineering, fisheries, food and bioengineering, physical education, finance and economics, teacher education, business administration, fine arts and music, as well as adult education and overseas education.集美大学设有21个学院，包括航海学院、轮机工程学院、水产学院、食品与生物工程学院、体育学院、财经学院、教师教育学院、工商管理学院、美术学院、音乐学院，以及成人教育学院和海外教育学院。
• It offers 77 undergraduate majors, and more than 3,400 graduate students study at master's and doctoral levels, while adult and continuing education programs serve working students.学校开设77个本科专业，在校研究生3400余人，涵盖硕士与博士层次，同时通过成人教育与继续教育面向在职人员。
• About 27,400 full-time undergraduates and nearly 600 international students study on campus, out of a total enrolment of more than 32,900.学校有全日制本科生27400余人、各类留学生近600人，在校生总数超过32900人。
• The university employs more than 1,650 full-time teachers, of whom more than 800 hold senior academic titles.学校有专任教师1650余人，其中高级职称教师800余人。
• It is co-funded by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Natural Resources, reflecting its strength in navigation, marine engineering and fisheries.学校由交通运输部和自然资源部共建，体现了其在航海、轮机与水产领域的优势。
• The navigation college continues the training of deck and engineering officers that began in the Jimei fisheries department in 1920, preparing graduates for ocean shipping, port management and maritime safety administration.航海学院延续1920年集美水产科开创的驾驶与轮机人才培养，毕业生进入远洋航运、港口管理与海事安全部门。
• The marine engineering college trains engineers for ship propulsion, ship repair and port machinery, and its graduates work in shipping and shipbuilding.轮机工程学院培养船舶动力、船舶维修与港口机械方面的工程师，毕业生多进入航运与造船行业。
• The fisheries college covers aquaculture, marine biology and fishery resource management, building on the 1920 fisheries department and using Fujian's coastal waters as research sites.水产学院涵盖水产养殖、海洋生物学与渔业资源管理，其根基是1920年的水产科，并以福建近海作为科研基地。
• The food and bioengineering college works on food processing, food safety and marine biotechnology, linking agriculture and the sea.食品与生物工程学院从事食品加工、食品安全与海洋生物技术研究，把农业与海洋资源连接起来。
• The physical education college inherits the Fujian Sports College tradition and trains teachers, coaches and sports administrators.体育学院继承福建体育学院的传统，培养体育教师、教练与体育管理人才。
• The finance and economics college descends from the 1920 business department and offers programs in finance, accounting and international trade.财经学院源自1920年的商科，开设金融、会计与国际贸易等专业。
• Teacher education, which began in 1918, continues through the teacher education college and its school partnerships in Fujian.始于1918年的师范教育由教师教育学院延续，并与福建多所学校建立合作关系。
• The fine arts and music colleges continue the art education that Tan Kah Kee included among the Jimei schools.美术学院与音乐学院延续了陈嘉庚在集美学校中设置艺术教育的传统。
• Engineering and information programs cover mechanical and energy engineering, information engineering, computer engineering and engineering technology.工科与信息类专业涵盖机械与能源工程、信息工程、计算机工程和工程技术。
• The law, literature and foreign languages colleges provide humanities and social science teaching alongside the university's technical programs.法学院、文学院和外国语学院在工科之外承担人文社会科学教学。
• Doctoral programs, authorized in 2013, focus on the university's strongest disciplines in navigation, fisheries and related marine fields.学校2013年获得博士学位授予权，博士点集中在航海、水产及相关海洋领域。
• Chengyi College, founded in 2003, is an independent college attached to the university and offers undergraduate programs.诚毅学院创办于2003年，是集美大学下属的独立学院，开设本科专业。
• The college takes its name from the motto Cheng Yi, and it teaches undergraduates on the Jimei campus under the academic supervision of the parent university.诚毅学院之名取自校训“诚毅”，在集美校园招收本科生，并接受集美大学的教学指导。
• The overseas education college teaches Chinese language and culture to international students, reflecting the university's links with overseas Chinese communities.海外教育学院面向留学生教授汉语与中国文化，体现学校与华侨社区的联系。

Campus

• The main campus lies in Jimei District of Xiamen, one of the city's six districts and a port area on the Taiwan Strait coast of Fujian province.主校区位于福建省厦门市集美区，集美是厦门六个行政区之一，也是台湾海峡沿岸的港口城区。
• Xiamen became one of China's first four special economic zones in 1980 and has since grown into a major container port, a setting that supports the university's maritime programs.厦门于1980年成为中国首批四个经济特区之一，此后发展成为重要的集装箱港口城市，这一环境为学校的涉海专业提供了支撑。
• The university occupies about 2,500 mu, roughly 167 hectares, with nearly one million square metres of buildings. A mu is about one-fifteenth of a hectare.学校占地约2500亩，折合约167公顷，校舍面积近100万平方米；一亩约合十五分之一公顷。
• The campus sits within the Jimei school village, the cluster of schools and buildings that Tan Kah Kee began constructing in 1913.校园位于集美学村之内，这一学校建筑群由陈嘉庚自1913年起陆续兴建。
• Tan Kah Kee's school village architecture, with its red roofs and colonnades, gives the campus a distinctive Minnan and overseas Chinese character.陈嘉庚规划学村时采用的红屋顶与连廊建筑，使校园带有鲜明的闽南与华侨风格。
• The 21 colleges are distributed across the Jimei campus, with teaching buildings, laboratories and student housing grouped by discipline, and the campus also contains a central library and sports grounds.21个学院分布在集美校区，教学楼、实验室与学生宿舍按学科相对集中，校区还设有中心图书馆和体育场地。
• The campus lies across the bay from Xiamen Island, close to the Jimei Bridge that opened in 2008 and to the city's coastal transport links.校区与厦门岛隔湾相望，邻近2008年通车的集美大桥和城市沿海交通干线。
• Its coastal setting supports the navigation, marine engineering and fisheries programs, which need access to water and port facilities.临海的位置为航海、轮机和水产专业提供了接近水域与港口设施的条件。
• The university marks its anniversary on 20 October each year, a date connected with the Jimei schools' founding period.学校将每年10月20日定为校庆日，这一日期与集美学校的创办时期相关。
• Sports facilities serve the physical education college and the wider student body, continuing the university's sports college heritage.体育设施既服务体育学院，也面向全校学生，延续了学校体育学院的历史传统。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Jimei University placed in the 901-1000 band.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，集美大学位列第901-1000名区间。
• The university was not included in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
• It did not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It ranked 1,531st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list.在2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单中，该校位列第1,531名。
• Fujian province designated it a key university for priority construction in 2004.福建省于2004年将集美大学确定为省级重点建设高校。
• Its co-funding by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Natural Resources reflects a national role in navigation and marine education.交通运输部与自然资源部的共建，体现了学校在航海与海洋教育中的全国性作用。
• The doctoral authority granted in 2013 made it one of the newer doctoral-granting universities in Fujian, and the first doctoral students enrolled that same year.2013年获得的博士学位授予权，使其成为福建较新的博士授予高校之一，首批博士生同年入学。
• Two consecutive League of Legends International College Cup titles in 2018 and 2019 brought the university unusual international visibility in esports.2018年和2019年连续两届英雄联盟全球高校冠军杯冠军，为学校带来了电竞领域少见的国际曝光。
• Its navigation and fisheries programs descend from schools founded more than a century ago and remain its best-known fields.其航海与水产专业源自百余年前创办的学校，至今仍是学校最知名的领域。

Student life

• More than 32,900 students study at Jimei, including 27,400 full-time undergraduates, 3,400 graduate students and nearly 600 international students.集美大学有32900多名学生，其中全日制本科生27400余人、研究生3400余人、留学生近600人。
• The university motto, Cheng Yi, means sincerity and perseverance. Tan Kah Kee chose it for the Jimei schools, and it is displayed throughout the school village.校训“诚毅”意为诚以待人、毅以处事，由陈嘉庚为集美学校订立，展示于学村各处。
• Students celebrate the university anniversary on 20 October with events that recall Tan Kah Kee's founding of the Jimei schools.学生每年10月20日庆祝校庆，活动常回顾陈嘉庚创办集美学校的历史。
• The esports team's 2018 and 2019 international titles made competitive gaming a visible part of student life.电竞队2018年和2019年的国际冠军，使竞技游戏成为学生生活中引人注目的一部分。
• The 2018 final was staged at Xidian University's gymnasium in Xi'an, where the Jimei team defeated the engineering school of the University of Porto before defending the title in Hong Kong.2018年决赛在西安电子科技大学体育馆举行，集美大学战队击败波尔图大学工程学院，随后又在香港成功卫冕。
• The physical education college and its sports facilities support athletics, coaching and sports science programs for the wider student body.体育学院及其设施为全校学生提供田径、教练与运动科学方面的课程与训练。
• Navigation and marine engineering students train for careers at sea, in shipyards and in port operations.航海与轮机专业学生为海上任职、船厂和港口运营等职业接受训练。
• International students study Chinese language and culture through the overseas education college, continuing the university's overseas Chinese connections.留学生在海外教育学院学习汉语与中国文化，延续学校与华侨社群的纽带。
• With 77 undergraduate majors, students move among navigation, fisheries, engineering, business, arts and teacher education programs on one campus.学校开设77个本科专业，学生在同一校园内跨航海、水产、工程、商科、艺术与师范等专业学习。
• The Jimei school village setting gives students access to museums, memorial halls and public spaces linked to Tan Kah Kee's educational project.集美学村的环境让学生可以使用与陈嘉庚教育事业相关的博物馆、纪念馆和公共空间。

Notable people

• Tan Kah Kee, the rubber magnate and philanthropist, founded the Jimei schools in 1913 and the teachers department that became the university's origin.橡胶实业家、慈善家陈嘉庚1913年创办集美学校，并设立后来成为大学源头的师范部。
• Tan Kah Kee went on to found Xiamen University in 1921, a year after adding fisheries and commerce to the Jimei schools, and both institutions still trace their origins to his educational philanthropy.陈嘉庚于1921年创办厦门大学，此前一年他刚在集美学校增设水产与商科，两校至今都把起源追溯到他的教育公益事业。
• Tan Keng Cheow, Tan Kah Kee's younger brother, helped manage and finance the Jimei schools in their early years.陈嘉庚之弟陈敬贤在早期协助管理和资助集美学校。
• Bei Hanting, a celebrated Chinese ocean-going captain, graduated from the Jimei navigation school.著名远洋船长贝汉廷毕业于集美航海学校。
• Chen Cunmu served for decades as a principal of the Jimei schools and helped preserve Tan Kah Kee's educational legacy.陈村牧长期担任集美学校校长，协助延续陈嘉庚的教育事业。
• Gu Jiande served as president of Jimei University.辜建德曾任集美大学校长。
• Su Wenjin, a marine biologist, served as president of the university.海洋生物学家苏文金曾任集美大学校长。
• Li Qingbiao served as president of Jimei University in the 2010s and 2020s.李清彪在2010年代至2020年代任集美大学校长。