Xiamen University

Xiamen University, abbreviated XMU and entered into its founding documents as Amoy University, is a public comprehensive research university whose main gate stands at 422 Siming South Road on the southern tip of Xiamen Island in Fujian, founded on 6 April 1921 by the Singapore-based overseas Chinese merchant Tan Kah Kee as the first university in modern Chinese history created by overseas Chinese, and today administered directly by the Ministry of Education of China with joint construction by the ministry, Fujian Province and Xiamen City.厦门大学（简称厦大，创办文书上用英文校名 Amoy University）是一所公立综合性研究型大学，校本部位居福建省厦门市思明区思明南路 422 号、厦门岛南端，1921 年 4 月 6 日由爱国华侨领袖陈嘉庚创办，是中国近代教育史上第一所华侨创办的大学，现为中华人民共和国教育部直属高校，由教育部、福建省和厦门市共建。

Its teaching and research are spread over a Siming campus facing Xiamen Bay, a Haiyun campus beside Xiamen Software Park, a Zhangzhou campus 3.5 nautical miles across the water, a Xiang'an campus in Xiangshan Subdistrict, a research institute at Pingtan and, since 2016, a branch campus at Sepang in Malaysia, while total enrolment passed 45,000 students in April 2023, including more than 21,000 undergraduates, over 19,000 master's students and more than 5,000 doctoral candidates.其教学与科研分布在厦门岛南端面向大海的思明校区、紧邻厦门软件园的海韵校区、隔海 3.5 海里的漳州校区、位于香山街道的翔安校区、平潭研究院，以及 2016 年起办学的马来西亚分校，截至 2023 年 4 月在校生超过 45,000 人，其中本科生逾 21,000 人、硕士生逾 19,000 人、博士生逾 5,000 人。

The university takes its motto from the classical phrases urging ceaseless self-strengthening and resting only in the highest excellence, was chosen for Project 211 in 1995 and for Project 985 in 2001, joined the national Double First-Class plan as a Class A institution in 2017, and is ranked 303rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, tied at 224 in the 2027 Times Higher Education table, 176th in the U.S. News best global universities list for 2026-2027 and in the 101-150 band of the 2026 ARWU.学校校训取自“自强不息，止于至善”，1995 年进入国家“211 工程”建设行列，2001 年列入“985 工程”重点建设高校，2017 年以 A 类高校入选国家“双一流”建设名单，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 303 位，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 224 位，在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 176 位，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位于 101 至 150 位。

History

• In 1919 Tan Kah Kee, the rubber, tin and shipping entrepreneur who had made his fortune in Singapore, pledged four million dollars of his own capital to endow a university in Amoy, the former romanisation of Xiamen, and poured the resources he had built up at the Jimei School Village into the scheme.1919 年，在东南亚经营橡胶、锡矿与航运起家的新加坡华侨企业家陈嘉庚捐出资本四百万元，倡议在厦门（旧称 Amoy）创办大学，并把自己在集美学村积累的资源投入此项计划。

• The private Amoy University opened with a ceremony on 6 April 1921 borrowed from the halls of the Jimei School, offering a faculty of education subdivided into arts and science sections together with a faculty of commerce on a two-year preparatory and four-year undergraduate plan, and it admitted 120 preparatory students, 40 each for commerce and science, because secondary-school leavers in Fujian were judged underprepared.私立厦门大学于 1921 年 4 月 6 日借集美学校校舍举行开学仪式，初设师范、商学两部，师范部下分文、理两科，学制预科两年、本科四年，因福建中学毕业生水准偏低，首批全招预科生共 120 名，商学部与理科各 40 名。

• In its first term the new university employed fewer than twenty teachers and actually registered only 98 students, yet it laid out seventeen courses, among them English grammar, English composition, French, Japanese, ethics, logic, economics, history, algebra, trigonometry and chemistry, all shaped by the staff it could realistically recruit.创办之初全校教职员不足二十人，学生实到仅 98 人，第一学期却开出十七门课程，包括英文文法、英文作文、法文、日文、伦理学、论理学、经济学、历史、代数、三角、化学等，课程设置依师资条件而定。

• On 4 July 1921 the Singapore-born physician and community leader Lin Wencheng, known in English as Lim Boon Seng, accepted Tan's invitation and took office as the first president, a post he held until 1937 while he also pursued his own research on tropical medicine and Chinese culture.1921 年 7 月 4 日，新加坡出生的医学博士、华侨社会领袖林文庆接受陈嘉庚邀请，出任厦门大学首任校长，任职直至 1937 年，同期仍从事热带医学与中国文化研究。

• From the autumn of 1921 the teachers' division was reconstituted as a faculty of education and new faculties of arts and of science were added, giving the university four faculties, and in February 1922 a board of directors was formally established with Tan Kah Kee as permanent director, his younger brother Chen Jingxian as director and President Lin as an ex officio director.自 1921 年秋起，师范学部改为教育学部，并增设文、理两学部，全校共设四个学部，1922 年 2 月私立厦门大学董事会正式成立，陈嘉庚任永久董事，其胞弟陈敬贤任董事，校长林文庆为当然董事。

• In July 1922 faculties of engineering and of journalism were added and freshmen were recruited in seven cities, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore and Manila, bringing in 152 students, two of them women, which marked the beginning of coeducation at the university.1922 年 7 月增设工学、新闻两学部，同时在厦门、福州、上海、北京、广州、新加坡、马尼拉七地招收新生 152 人，其中女生 2 人，是为厦门大学男女同校之始。

• A crisis in the winter of 1923, when the administration mishandled a student demand for teaching reform and expelled students and professors, provoked a strike, and in June 1924 more than three hundred teachers and students left for Shanghai to open the Daxia University Preparatory Office, whose name, reversing the characters for Xiamen and meaning "glory to China", survived until 1951, when Daxia University merged with Kwanghua University to form today's East China Normal University.1923 年冬，校方处理学生教学改革诉求失当并开除多名师生，激起罢课学潮，1924 年 6 月三百余师生离校迁往上海成立大厦大学筹备处，后取“光大华夏”之意定名大夏大学，1951 年大夏大学与光华大学合并，改制为今日的华东师范大学。

• To heal the damage, President Lin set salaries that reached 400 silver dollars a month for a professor, 200 for a lecturer and 150 for an assistant, and Lin Yutang arrived in May 1926 to become dean of the School of Letters in September, bringing with him the writer Lu Xun, the editor Sun Fuyuan, the ancient-history scholar Gu Jiegang, the historian of Sino-foreign relations Zhang Xinglang, the philologists Shen Jianshi and Luo Changpei.为消除学潮影响，林文庆重金礼聘学者，规定教授月薪最高可达 400 元、讲师 200 元、助教 150 元，林语堂于 1926 年 5 月到校、9 月就任文科主任，并邀来鲁迅、《北京晨报》副刊主编孙伏园、古史学者顾颉刚、中西交通史学者张星烺以及国学大师沈兼士、罗常培。

• In February 1930 the university obeyed a Nationalist Ministry of Education order converting its "divisions" into colleges and renaming its attached preparatory section an affiliated senior middle school, and by June 1930 it operated five colleges with 21 departments, having become a multidisciplinary comprehensive institution.1930 年 2 月，厦门大学遵照国民政府教育部令将“科”改为“学院”、将“预设”改为“附设高级中学”，并修订组织大纲、调整院系设置，至 1930 年 6 月全校共设 5 个学院、21 个学系，初步建成多科性综合大学。

• On 1 July 1937, at Tan Kah Kee's own request, the Nationalist government agreed to take over the cash-strapped private university, which was renamed National Amoy University, and five days later the electrical engineer Sa Bendong, a professor at Tsinghua University, was appointed its president.1937 年 7 月 1 日，经陈嘉庚函请，国民政府同意接办私立厦门大学，改为国立并更名国立厦门大学，7 月 6 日任命清华大学电机工程教授萨本栋博士为校长。

• After the Amoy Operation of the Second Sino-Japanese War began, Sa Bendong led the staff first to Gulangyu Island and then inland to the mountain city of Changting in western Fujian, where classes resumed on 17 January 1938 with a mere 198 students on the roll.抗日战争爆发后，萨本栋校长率师生先迁鼓浪屿，再内迁闽西山城长汀，1938 年 1 月 17 日学校在长汀复课，当时在校生仅 198 人。

• During eight hard years at Changting the university grew its student body to 1,044 and expanded from 9 to 15 departments, recruited scholars despite the blockade, and saw its students organise bodies such as the National Amoy University Student Patriotic Service Corps for anti-Japanese rescue work.在长汀办学八年条件极为艰苦，在校生仍增至 1,044 人，学系由 9 个发展到 15 个，延聘众多优秀学者，学生另组织“国立厦门大学学生救国服务团”等团体投入抗日救国运动。

• In the first and second national examinations of university students held by the Ministry of Education from August 1940 into 1941, Xiamen University finished first on both occasions, won a colony-wide commendation from the ministry and thereby earned the enduring nickname "the Stronghold of the South".1940 年 8 月至 1941 年，国民政府教育部举行首届和第二届全国大学生学业竞试，厦门大学均名列第一、蝉联冠军，获教育部全国通令嘉奖，由此被誉为“南方之强”。

• Foreign scholars began to notice: in the spring of 1944 the Cambridge biochemist Joseph Needham, a fellow of the Royal Society, came with British and American colleagues, and visitors praised Xiamen University as the best university east of Calcutta, while the Nationalist Ministry of Education styled it the highest seat of learning in the south-east and one of the country's most complete universities.1944 年春，英国皇家学会会员、剑桥大学生物化学教授李约瑟博士与英美学者先后来校考察访问，称赞“厦门大学为加尔各答以东最好的大学”，当时国民政府教育部称之为“东南最高学府”和“国内最完备大学之一”。

• On 19 September 1945 the Executive Yuan appointed the marine biologist Wang Deyao as president, and after the university returned to Xiamen in 1946, his letter to alumni on the silver jubilee of 6 April 1946 proclaimed tolerance of all schools and freedom of academic thought, a statement of open institutional philosophy.1945 年 9 月 19 日国民政府行政院任命海洋生物学家汪德耀博士为国立厦门大学校长，学校 1946 年复员回到厦门，汪德耀在 1946 年 4 月 6 日发表《25 周年校庆致校友书》，提出“兼容并包”与“学术思想自由”的办学主张。

• The post-war years brought rapid curricular growth, with departments of oceanography and of international trade newly added and the department of mechanical and electrical engineering split into two in July 1948, which created a separate college of engineering alongside the college of science and left the university with five colleges and 18 departments.战后陆续增设海洋学系与国际贸易系，并于 1948 年 7 月将机电工程学系分为机械、电机两个系，理学院因此分设为理学院与工学院，全校扩展到 5 个学院 18 个学系，形成文理工俱备的格局。

• The People's Liberation Army entered Xiamen on 17 October 1949, and on 20 October the Xiamen Military Control Commission sent military representatives Wu Qiang and Xiao Feng to take charge of the campus and organise the first Communist Party branch, after which the central people's government appointed the economist Wang Yanan, co-translator of Capital, as president in May 1950.1949 年 10 月 17 日中国人民解放军进驻厦门，10 月 20 日厦门市军事管制委员会委派军代表吴强、肖枫接管厦门大学并组建中共厦门大学支部委员会，1950 年 5 月中央人民政府任命《资本论》合译者、经济学家王亚南教授为厦门大学校长。

• The 1951 and 1952 reorganisation of Chinese higher education both gave and took: Fujian's provincial agricultural college and the law, political science and economics departments of the private Fujian College came in during 1951, and in 1952 the Finance and Economics College of Fuzhou University, with its departments of accounting, trade, finance, statistics and business administration, was folded into Xiamen University as it was reclassified an arts-and-science comprehensive university.1951 年至 1952 年的全国院系调整既有并入也有调出，1951 年福建省立农学院、私立福建学院法科的法律政治经济三系并入厦门大学，1952 年福州大学财政经济学院含会计、贸易、财政金融、统计、企业管理五系并入，厦大同时被定位为文理科综合性大学。

• The outflows were equally consequential: its aviation department helped form the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, now Beihang University, most of its electrical and mechanical engineering went to the Nanjing Institute of Technology, now Southeast University, its civil and architectural work went to Tongji University, its hydraulics to the East China College of Hydraulic Engineering, now Hohai University, its law and politics to the East China College of Political Science and Law, its Russian to Nanjing University, and later transfers fed Inner Mongolia University in 1957, the Shandong College of Oceanography in 1959 and Fuzhou University in 1960.调出影响深远，工学院航空系参与组建北京航空学院即今北京航空航天大学，电机、机械系大部并入南京工学院即今东南大学，土木、建筑系并入同济大学，水利专业并入华东水利学院即今河海大学，政法学院并入华东政法学院，俄语专业并入南京大学，后又参与创建 1957 年的内蒙古大学，1959 年海洋系并入山东海洋学院即今中国海洋大学，1960 年大批骨干并入福州大学。

• Xiamen University was placed on the national list of key universities in 1962 and 1963, was handed to Fujian Province for administration in December 1969 during the Cultural Revolution, was restored in February 1978 as a key university directly under the Ministry of Education, was admitted to Project 211 in July 1995, became one of the first 33 universities licensed by the ministry to found a graduate school in 1996, entered the first phase of Project 985 in February 2001 and broke ground for its Zhangzhou campus on 6 April 2001.厦门大学 1962 年与 1963 年先后被列入全国重点大学，1969 年 12 月下放福建省管理，1978 年 2 月恢复为教育部部属全国重点大学，1995 年 7 月进入国家“211 工程”建设行列，次年成为首批获教育部批准建立研究生院的 33 所高校之一，2001 年 2 月列入“985 工程”一期重点建设高校，2001 年 4 月 6 日漳州校区奠基兴建。

• The overseas chapter opened when the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education sent a formal invitation on 25 January 2013, ground was broken near Kuala Lumpur on 3 July 2014, Xiamen University Malaysia was established in 2015 as the first large overseas branch campus of a Chinese university, and teaching began there on 22 February 2016, while back home the 6 April 2021 centenary drew a congratulatory letter from Xi Jinping and the September 2017 and February 2022 Double First-Class rounds fixed the university's standing.海外篇章始于 2013 年 1 月 25 日马来西亚高教部递交正式邀请书，2014 年 7 月 3 日马来西亚校区在吉隆坡附近奠基，2015 年厦门大学马来西亚分校设立，成为中国高校首个大规模海外独立校园，2016 年 2 月 22 日正式开学，境内则在 2017 年 9 月入选“双一流”A 类名单，并于 2021 年 4 月 6 日迎来建校百年，中共中央总书记习近平致信祝贺。

Academics

• The university now runs a graduate school, six academic divisions, 29 colleges and schools and 15 research institutes, a disciplinary system that spans the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, engineering and technology, management, the arts and medicine.学校现设研究生院、6 个学部以及 29 个学院和 15 个研究院，学科体系涵盖人文科学、社会科学、自然科学、工程与技术科学、管理科学、艺术科学与医学科学等门类。

• Its humanities and social science units include the School of Humanities, the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Law, the School of Public Affairs, the School of Economics, the School of Management and the College of Art, alongside the Xiamen Academy of International Law.人文与社会科学教学单位包括文学院、外国语学院、新闻传播学院、法学院、公共事务学院、经济学院、管理学院与艺术学院，另设厦门大学国际法研究院。

• On the science and engineering side the standing units are the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the School of Mathematical Sciences, the School of Physics, the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, the School of Life Sciences, the School of Information Science and Technology, the School of Software, the School of Electronic Science and Technology and the School of Aerospace Engineering.理工科教学单位包括化学化工学院、数学科学学院、物理科学与技术学院、海洋与地球学院、生命科学学院、信息科学与技术学院、软件学院、电子科学与技术学院与航空航天学院。

• Health-related teaching is concentrated in the Medical College, the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the School of Public Health and the nursing department, all of them housed on the Xiang'an campus together with the College of Environment and Ecology, the School of Energy Research and the Overseas Education College for international students.医学与生命科学教学力量集中于医学院、药学院、公共卫生学院与护理学系，均设于翔安校区，同址的还有环境与生态学院、能源研究院和负责国际学生培养的海外教育学院。

• In the first Double First-Class round announced in 2017 the university put five disciplines on the world-class construction list, namely chemistry, marine science, biology, ecology and statistics, and in the second round of February 2022 it added education, bringing the total to six, while the list of national key first-level disciplines covers theoretical economics, applied economics, chemistry, marine science and business administration.2017 年国家首轮世界一流学科建设名单列入化学、海洋科学、生物学、生态学、统计学 5 个学科，2022 年第二轮名单新增教育学，增至 6 个，一级学科国家重点学科则为理论经济学、应用经济学、化学、海洋科学与工商管理。

• Its nine national key second-level disciplines are international law, higher education, special history, basic mathematics, condensed matter physics, zoology, hydrobiology, cell biology and environmental science, and in 2007 both theoretical economics and applied economics were certified as key first-level disciplines, one of only three universities to cover the whole of economics.9 个二级学科国家重点学科为国际法学、高等教育学、专门史、基础数学、凝聚态物理、动物学、水生生物学、细胞生物学与环境科学，2007 年理论经济学与应用经济学同时获评一级学科国家重点学科，覆盖经济学全部学科，全国仅三所高校获此地位。

• In the Ministry of Education's fourth-round discipline evaluation of 2017, the university placed 50 subjects on the national table, with marine science rated A+, applied economics, chemistry, statistics and business administration rated A, law and biology rated A-, and 14 subjects rated B+.在 2017 年教育部第四轮全国学科评估中，厦门大学共 50 个学科上榜，海洋科学获评 A+，应用经济学、化学、统计学、工商管理获评 A，法学与生物学获评 A-，另有 14 个学科获评 B+。

• By the university's own statistics 17 of its disciplines enter the top one per cent of the ESI world subject ranking, and its degree system includes 34 first-level doctoral programmes, 46 first-level master's programmes, six interdisciplinary fields, 32 postdoctoral mobile stations, one doctoral professional category and 28 master's professional categories.据校方统计全校有 17 个学科进入 ESI 全球前百分之一，学位授权体系含 34 个博士学位授权一级学科、46 个硕士学位授权一级学科、6 个交叉学科、32 个博士后流动站、1 个博士专业学位类别与 28 个硕士专业学位类别。

• Its academic staff numbered 2,708 full-time teachers, of whom 1,918, or 70.8 per cent, held professorial or associate professorial rank and 2,289, or 84.5 per cent, held doctorates, a base later expanded to nearly 3,000 teachers with senior rank above 73 per cent.全校专任教师 2,708 人，其中教授、副教授 1,918 人，占专任教师总数的 70.8%，获博士学位者 2,289 人，占 84.5%，此后师资扩至近 3,000 人，高级职务占比升至 73% 以上。

• Its roster of senior talent rose from 22 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, including nine joint appointments, to 35, including 18 joint appointments, plus four fellows of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 24 Cheung Kong Scholars, 47 holders of the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund, 41 holders of the Excellent Young Scholar Fund and six national master teachers.两院院士由 22 人（含双聘 9 人）增至 35 人（含双聘 18 人），另有发展中国家科学院院士 4 人、“长江学者奖励计划”特聘教授 24 人、国家杰出青年科学基金获得者 47 人、优秀青年科学基金获得者 41 人、国家级教学名师 6 人。

• Research is carried out through more than 200 institutes, backed by four national key laboratories, among them the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, one national engineering research centre for infectious-disease diagnostic reagents and vaccines, one national engineering laboratory, five Ministry of Education key laboratories, five Ministry humanities and social science research bases and two national collaborative innovation centres.学校设有 200 多个研究机构，拥有国家重点实验室 4 个，其中包括近海海洋环境科学国家重点实验室，另有国家工程技术研究中心 1 个、国家工程实验室 1 个、教育部重点实验室 5 个、教育部哲学社会科学研究基地 5 个，并作为牵头单位建设国家级协同创新中心 2 个。

• Xiamen University leads the Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, a cross-university platform drawing several first-class chemistry schools, and its economics division hosts the Ministry of Education's first cross-disciplinary key laboratory of econometrics, while the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, founded in 2005 in the president's memory, introduced international graduate training standards.厦门大学牵头建设能源材料化学协同创新中心这一跨校平台，经济学科设有教育部首个文理交叉的计量经济学重点实验室，而 2005 年以老校长王亚南命名的王亚南经济研究院则引进了国际化的研究生培养规格。

• The Xiamen University Science Park is one of only two national university science parks in Fujian certified jointly by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, giving the university a formal channel for commercialising research.厦门大学国家大学科技园是福建省内仅有的两个经科技部、教育部认定的国家级大学科技园之一，为学校科研成果转化提供了正式通道。

• Over the five-year period reported by the university, its scientists published 110 papers in Science, Nature and Cell and their sister journals, won four second-prize National Natural Science Awards, one Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for scientific and technological progress, three national innovation competition awards, three China youth science and technology awards and three China patent excellence awards.据校方公布的近五年统计，学校在《科学》《自然》《细胞》及其子刊等国际高水平期刊发表论文 110 篇，获国家自然科学二等奖 4 项、何梁何利基金科学与技术进步奖 1 项，3 人获全国创新争先奖、3 人获中国青年科技奖、3 项成果获中国专利优秀奖。

• On the humanities side the same period brought 21 major projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, eight key Ministry philosophy and social science research projects and 16 Ministry awards for outstanding scientific achievement in the humanities and social sciences, including one first prize, supporting the university's recognised strengths in Taiwan studies, Nanyang studies, higher-education research, economics, accounting and South China Sea studies.人文社会科学在同一时期承担国家社科基金重大项目 21 项、教育部哲学社会科学研究重大课题攻关项目 8 项，获教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖人文社会科学奖 16 项含一等奖 1 项，形成台湾研究、南洋研究、高等教育研究、经济研究、会计研究与南海研究等特色领域。

• International exchange goes back to the overseas correspondence courses opened in 1956 and the arrival of the first foreign students in 1981, and the university now reports partnerships with 263 foreign universities, exchanges with 53 institutions, sixteen Confucius Institutes with partners in thirteen countries, a 2016 strategic partnership with Cardiff University carrying £1.2 million of seed funding for joint doctoral supervision and collaborative research, and delegations to the Tokyo Institute of Technology in May 2016.其国际交流可追溯至 1956 年开办的海外函授课程与 1981 年接收的首批外国留学生，目前与国外 263 所大学建立合作关系、与 53 所机构实质交流，在 13 个国家建有 16 所孔子学院，2016 年 11 月与英国卡迪夫大学缔结战略伙伴关系并获 120 万英镑种子经费用于联合培养博士生与合作研究，同年 5 月组团访问东京工业大学。

Campus

• The Siming campus, the university's seat, occupies more than 2,600 mu, roughly 167 hectares, at the southern end of Xiamen Island, backed by hills and fronted by Xiamen Bay with Furong Lake at its centre, and eight bus stops serve its coastline, among them Xiamen University station, Baicheng station, the Hulishan Fortress station and the arts college stop.思明校区为校本部，占地 2,600 余亩、约合 167 公顷，位于厦门岛南端，依山傍海、校园中心是芙蓉湖，途经校园的巴士站共 8 站，包括厦大站、厦大白城站、胡里山炮台站与厦大艺术学院站。

• Campus statistics released by the university record 1.35 million square metres of floor area, a library holding more than 4.6 million volumes including over 1.5 million electronic titles, fixed assets valued at 2.5 billion yuan and laboratory instruments worth 900 million yuan, while its campus high-speed network ranks among the best in China and serves as a main node of CERNET2.校方公布的校园数据显示校舍建筑面积 135 万平方米，图书馆藏书 460 多万册其中含电子图书 150 多万册，固定资产总值 25 亿元，仪器设备总值 9 亿元，校园高速信息网络建设规模与水平居全国高校前列，并成为 CERNET2 主节点之一。

• Much of the older campus is built in the Nanyang manner that Tan Kah Kee favoured, Western brick and concrete bodies carrying Chinese tiled roofs, and this collection of early buildings is listed among the national key protected cultural relics of China.校园早期建筑多为陈嘉庚钟爱的南洋风格，西式砖混楼体上覆中式大屋顶，呈现中西合璧特征，这批建筑已列入全国重点文物保护单位。

• The Shangxian athletic ground on the southern side of the main campus was built in 1954 with money donated by Lee Kong Chian, Tan Kah Kee's son-in-law, whose Jiannan building group rose at the same time, and the finished ground covered 32,200 square metres including 25 terraced tiers cut into the hillside, seated 20,000 spectators and cost 120,000 dollars, taking its name, meaning "waxing-crescent field", from the calligraphy of the scholar Yu Yu.校本部南部的上弦场建于 1954 年，由陈嘉庚女婿李光前先生捐资建造，其北侧的建南楼群亦同期建成，建成后含看台面积 32,200 平方米，可依山坡砌成 25 级看台、容纳观众 2 万人、造价 12 万元，运动场与看台均为半月形，由学者虞愚受陈嘉庚之请命名并题写“上弦场”石刻。

• Renovated in 2006, the Shangxian ground now covers about 36,000 square metres and holds a 400-metre synthetic running track, three five-a-side football pitches and outdoor fitness equipment, remaining the venue for opening ceremonies and large school gatherings.2006 年厦门大学对上弦场进行改造，改造后总面积约 36,000 平方米，内设 400 米塑胶田径场、三个五人制塑胶足球场及若干运动器械，仍是校庆典礼与大型集会的场地。

• The Jiageng building group and Jiageng Square, erected with donations from patriotic overseas Chinese and alumni, were completed in 2001, continuing a tradition of philanthropic building that began with Tan Kah Kee and Lee Kong Chian and that today sustains twelve alumni-funded scholarship programmes.由爱国华侨与校友捐资兴建的嘉庚楼群及嘉庚广场于 2001 年落成，延续了自陈嘉庚、李光前以来的捐建风尚，目前校内由校友设基金支持的奖学金达 12 种。

• The Haiyun campus, administratively part of the main campus, lies near Pearl Bay beside Xiamen Software Park and houses the School of Software, the School of Information Science and Technology and the School of Mathematical Sciences in one teaching block, one administrative block, one laboratory block and two research blocks, with a second phase long stalled by the difficulty of relocating residents.海韵校区属思明校区一部分，位于厦门岛南端珍珠湾附近、紧邻厦门软件园，容纳软件学院、信息科学与技术学院与数学科学学院，园内有教学楼一栋、行政楼一栋、实验楼一栋与科研楼两栋，二期因拆迁复杂而长期处于半停顿状态。

• The Zhangzhou campus covers 2,568 mu, about 171 hectares, inside the Zhangzhou China Merchants Economic and Technological Development Zone only 3.5 nautical miles from the main campus, and after most of its facilities, dormitories and teaching blocks were allocated to the independent Tan Kah Kee College in July 2012, it received the new College of Creativity and Innovation and part of the International College in September 2020, along with the Gulei Petrochemical Research Institute and the Institute of Industrial Technology.漳州校区位于招商局漳州开发区内，占地 2,568 亩、约合 171 公顷，与本部一海之隔相距仅 3.5 海里，建筑风格一脉相承，2012 年 7 月大部分场地、宿舍与教学楼交由厦门大学嘉庚学院使用，2020 年 9 月新设立的创意与创新学院与国际学院部分回迁入驻，另设古雷石化研究院与产业技术研究院。

• The Xiang'an campus, 3,645 mu in Xiangshan Subdistrict and 34 kilometres from Siming, is backed by the Xiangshan hills, was planned in one design and built in stages, took its first faculty and students in September 2012 and was largely finished by the centenary of 2021, and it now holds more than 10,000 students and teachers across ten schools oriented to medicine and the life sciences.翔安校区位于厦门市翔安区香山街道，北依香山、南临翔安南路，占地 3,645 亩，距思明校区 34 公里，按“一次规划、分期建设”原则推进，2012 年 9 月第一批师生入驻，到 2021 年百年校庆基本完成建设任务，现容纳逾 10,000 名师生、分属以医学与生命科学为主的十个学院。

• The overseas campus occupies a site at Bandar Serenia in Sepang, Selangor, ten minutes by road from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and fifteen minutes from the administrative capital Putrajaya, and the university also runs a Pingtan research institute on the island county west of Fuzhou, contracted in December 2019 and opened in May 2021 at No. 25 to 26 of the Taiwan Entrepreneurship Park, with centres for Min-Tai culture and archaeology, cultural and tourism industry, marine science and technology and digital economy.海外校园地处雪兰莪州Sepang 的实耐尔尼亚镇，距吉隆坡国际机场车程约十分钟、距行政首都布城约十五分钟，学校另在福州以西洋岛县平潭设研究院，2019 年 12 月签约、2021 年 5 月成立，设于平潭综合实验区台湾创业园 25 至 26 号，下设闽台文化与考古研究中心、文创与旅游产业研究中心、海洋科学与技术研究中心、数字经济与技术研究中心。

Reputation

• Xiamen University is ranked 303rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, continuing a climb from 341st place in the 2026 edition of the same table.厦门大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 303 位，较该榜 2026 年版的第 341 位继续上升。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is placed at equal 224th, having sat in the 251-300 band of the 2026 edition.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，学校并列第 224 位，此前在 2026 年版中位于 251 至 300 档。

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places Xiamen University at 176th in the world, an advance from 189th in the 2025-2026 table.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，厦门大学位列世界第 176 位，较 2025-2026 年榜的第 189 位前移。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, puts the university in the 101-150 band, its customary position in that oldest of the four global tables.在由上海交通大学软科评价小组发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位于 101 至 150 位，延续了它在这一历史最悠久榜单中的常态位置。

• Its subject profile is stronger than its overall position, since the 2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects placed nine Xiamen University disciplines among the world's top fifty, with marine science at 13, hospitality and sport management at 23, chemistry at 26, nanoscience and nanotechnology at 29, energy science and engineering at 31, chemical engineering at 38, remote sensing at 46, materials science and engineering at 47 and economics at 50.其学科名次高于总榜名次，2023 年软科世界一流学科排名中有 9 个学科进入世界前五十，依次为海洋科学第 13、旅游休闲管理第 23、化学第 26、纳米科学与技术第 29、能源科学与工程第 31、化学工程第 38、遥感技术第 46、材料科学与工程第 47、经济学第 50。

• Regionally and across other indicators the university stood 72nd in the 2026 QS Asia rankings, 67th in the 2025 Times Higher Education Asia rankings, and 23rd among the world's research institutions in the 2025 Nature Index table of science output.在区域与其他指标上，学校在 2026 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中列亚洲第 72 位，在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育亚洲大学排名中列第 67 位，在 2025 年自然指数世界科研机构排名中列第 23 位。

• Domestically it belongs to the earliest tier of Chinese higher education, named a national key university in 1962 and 1963, selected into Project 211 in 1995, into Project 985 in 2001 and into the Double First-Class Class A list in 2017, and its seven A-class subjects in the fourth-round ministry evaluation, on a table of 50 listed disciplines, kept it among the strongest comprehensive universities in southern China.在国内它属于最早一批高等教育的核心层，1962 年与 1963 年列为全国重点大学，1995 年入选“211 工程”，2001 年入选“985 工程”，2017 年入选“双一流”A 类名单，在教育部第四轮学科评估的 50 个上榜学科中取得 7 个 A 类学科，稳居华南地区最强综合大学之列。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 123,384 research works attracting 10,379,770 citations, a volume of output recorded under its Research Organization Registry identifier for the institution in Xiamen.据 OpenAlex 统计，厦门大学已产出 123,384 项研究成果，累计被引用 10,379,770 次。

• Its hardest honour count comes from the international scholars it has formally attracted, since at the 85th anniversary assembly on 6 April 2006 the president announced, with Ministry of Education approval, eight honorary professorships held by figures of whom five were Nobel laureates, namely David Baltimore of the 1975 medicine prize, Robert Curl of the 1996 chemistry prize, Robert Mundell of the 1999 economics prize, Clive Granger of the 2003 economics prize and David Gross of the 2004 physics prize.其最硬的荣誉计数来自正式延聘的国际学者，2006 年 4 月 6 日建校 85 周年庆祝大会上，经教育部批准学校敦聘 8 位国际著名学者为名誉教授，其中 5 位为诺贝尔奖得主，分别是 1975 年生理学与医学奖得主戴维·巴尔的摩、1996 年化学奖得主罗伯特·柯尔、1999 年经济学奖得主罗伯特·蒙代尔、2003 年经济学奖得主克莱夫·格兰杰与 2004 年物理学奖得主戴维·格罗斯。

Student life

• Tan Kah Kee fixed the motto in 1921 as the eight characters meaning "strengthen yourself ceaselessly and rest only at the highest good", drawing the first half from the Book of Changes, where the movement of heaven is vigorous and the gentleman strives without pause, and the second from the Great Learning, which sets the way of learning in manifesting bright virtue, renewing the people and resting at perfect goodness.陈嘉庚在 1921 年创办厦门大学时即定下八字校训“自强不息，止于至善”，前半最早见于《周易·乾》“天行健，君子以自强不息”，意为自觉向上、永不懈怠，后半出自《礼记·大学》“大学之道，在明明德，在亲民，在止于至善”，意为不达至善之境绝不停止努力。

• The university emblem was settled at the same founding and has been used ever since, carrying in the outer ring the traditional Chinese characters for the school name and its Latin form, three stars inside for heaven, earth and humanity in classical thought, the gate of Amoy to signify a university with its doors wide open, and the four motto characters for the highest good at the core.校徽图案在创办时确定并沿用至今，外圆圈上方为繁体字“廈門大學”、下方为拉丁文校名，内圆圈中三颗五角星代表中国旧哲学中的天、地、人三才，城与城门图案取厦门“大厦之门”的表记并喻学府门户大开，中央“止于至善”四字即办学目标。

• The school song was set to music by the linguist and composer Yuen Ren Chao, Zhao Yuanren, with words by the chemist and educational administrator Zheng Zhenwen, and it is sung at the anniversary assembly each year.厦门大学校歌由语言学家、音乐家赵元任作曲，学者、著作家郑贞文作词，每年校庆大会全校咏唱。

• Founding day, 6 April, is the anniversary of the university, marked by half a day's suspension of classes and gatherings of alumni branches worldwide, a date the school also celebrates as making it a university of the same age as the Communist Party of China, which was founded in 1921, and the centenary of 6 April 2021 drew a letter of congratulation from Xi Jinping commending the ethos of patriotism, revolution, self-strengthening and science that Tan Kah Kee instilled.每年 4 月 6 日为校庆日，当日全校停课半天，各地校友会集会庆祝，因 1921 年与中国共产党同龄，学校亦以此为特色，2021 年 4 月 6 日建校百年之际中共中央总书记习近平致信祝贺，肯定学校秉承陈嘉庚立校志向形成的“爱国、革命、自强、科学”优良校风。

• At every commencement the university reads out a decision honouring outstanding graduates, a distinction won by roughly five per cent of each undergraduate cohort, as in 2005 when 198 of the 4,423 graduating students received the title, and the campus also keeps an active life of student self-help funded by twelve alumni scholarship programmes.学校每年在毕业典礼上宣读优秀毕业生表彰决定，约 5% 的本科毕业者获此荣誉，例如 2005 届 4,423 名本专科毕业生中有 198 名获授“优秀毕业生”，校内另有 12 种由校友设基金的奖学金支持学生自助。

• Student politics and public service have a long record, beginning with the 1923 strike that forced teaching reform, continuing through the patriotic service corps formed by Changting students during the war against Japan, and including the wartime curriculum in which students combined diligence in study with rescue work in the hinterland.学生参与公共事务传统悠久，1923 年学潮直接推动教学改革，抗战内迁长汀期间学生组织“国立厦门大学学生救国服务团”等团体参加抗日救国运动， 抗战内迁时期的学子一面勤勉攻读、一面投入后方救亡工作。

• Daily life on the main campus runs along a linear seaside plan served by eight bus stops, with Furong Lake, the shaded slopes behind the Jiannan buildings and Baicheng beach within walking distance, and the 20,000-seat Shangxian ground doubling as the stadium for sports meets and the ceremonial field for the 6 April anniversary.思明校区呈狭长形沿海岸延展，八条巴士站串联校园，芙蓉湖、建南楼群后山绿荫与白城沙滩皆可步行抵达，20,000 座的上弦场既是田径运动会的赛场，也是 4 月 6 日校庆典礼的露天会场。

• International student life is centred on the Overseas Education College on the Xiang'an campus, which carries the programme that took the university's first foreign students in 1981, while the Malaysia campus at Sepang, opened in 2016, gives students a multilingual cohort in Southeast Asia, and exchange ties extend to 263 partner universities and sixteen Confucius Institutes in thirteen countries.国际学生生活以翔安校区海外教育学院为中心，该学院承继 1981 年接收首批留学生的项目，2016 年开学的马来西亚分校为学生提供东南亚多语言学习环境，交换网络覆盖 263 所伙伴大学与 13 个国家的 16 所孔子学院。

Notable people

• The founder Tan Kah Kee, or Chen Jiageng, of Amoy birth and Singapore fortune, endowed the university from 1919, financed its earliest buildings and is remembered in the Jimei School Village he also built, while his younger brother Chen Jingxian sat on the board of directors from 1922 and his son-in-law, the banker and landowner Lee Kong Chian, paid for the Jiannan building group and the Shangxian athletic ground of 1954.创办人陈嘉庚原籍厦门、实业在新加坡，自 1919 年起捐资办学并援建最早校舍，另创办集美学村，其胞弟陈敬贤自 1922 年起任校董事，女婿、华侨银行家李光前则捐建了建南楼群与 1954 年建成的上弦场。

• Its presidents shaped its character, with the physician Lim Boon Seng, Lin Wencheng, holding the office from 1921 to 1937, the electrical engineer and Tsinghua professor Sa Bendong leading the wartime relocation from 1937, the zoologist Wang Deyao reopening the campus after the war from 1945 and the Marxist economist Wang Yanan, co-translator of Karl Marx's Capital, serving from May 1950 until his death in 1969.历任校长塑造了学校性格，医学博士林文庆自 1921 年至 1937 年主政，电机工程专家、清华大学教授萨本栋于 1937 年起领导内迁，动物学家汪德耀自 1945 年主持复员复校，翻译《资本论》的马克思主义经济学家王亚南自 1950 年 5 月任职至 1969 年逝世。

• Recent leadership passed from Zhu Chongshi, president from 2003 until July 2017, to the semiconductor optoelectronics physicist Zhang Rong, who had been president of Shandong University, held the Xiamen presidency from 2017 and became party secretary on 1 April 2022 before his election to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 2023, while the engineering economist Zhang Zongyi, previously president of Chongqing University, took the presidency at the same April 2022 announcement.近年领导层更替由 2003 年至 2017 年 7 月任职的校长朱崇实交棒给半导体光电子材料物理学家张荣，张荣曾任山东大学校长、2017 年出任厦门大学校长，2022 年 4 月 1 日转任党委书记并于同年 11 月当选中国科学院院士，而原任重庆大学校长的工程经济学人张宗益在同一次宣布中就任校长。

• The humanists of the 1926 recruitment left the deepest literary mark, among them Lin Yutang, dean of the School of Letters from September 1926 and later the novelist and lexicographer behind a Chinese typewriter, Lu Xun, the writer of A Call to Arms who lectured at the university through 1926 and 1927, the journalist Sun Fuyuan, the historian of ancient China Gu Jiegang, the Sino-foreign-relations specialist Zhang Xinglang, and the philologists Shen Jianshi and Luo Changpei.1926 年那次礼聘的人文学者留下最深印记，其中包括 1926 年 9 月起任文科主任、后以小说与汉语打字机闻名的林语堂，1926 年至 1927 年在校讲演的《呐喊》作者鲁迅，报人孙伏园，古史学者顾颉刚，中西交通史学者张星烺，以及国学与音韵学者沈兼士、罗常培。

• Its scientific alumni and faculty include the chemist Lu Jiaxi, who took his degree in the chemistry department in 1934 and later served as president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xie Xide, who was educated in physics at the wartime campus and went on to be president of Fudan University from 1983 to 1989, and the mathematician Chen Jingrun, a graduate of the mathematics department in 1953 whose "1 plus 2" result on the Goldbach problem was recognised by the National Natural Science Award in 1982.其科学与学术校友及教师包括 1934 年毕业于化学系、后担任中国科学院院长的化学家卢嘉锡，在长汀校园就读物理、1983 年至 1989 年出任复旦大学校长的物理学家谢希德，以及 1953 年毕业于数学系、因哥德巴赫猜想“1+2”成果获 1982 年国家自然科学奖的数学家陈景润。

• Xiamen's chemical school rests on figures such as Cai Qirui, a founder of theoretical chemical catalysis in China elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981, and Tian Zhaowu, the physical electrochemist elected in 1991, whose work underlies the university's A-rated chemistry and its marine and energy materials platforms, while Sun Shigang sustained its surface electrochemistry programme.厦大化学学派以 1981 年当选中国科学院院士的中国理论化学催化奠基人蔡启瑞、1991 年当选院士的物理电化学家田昭武为代表，其工作支撑起化学学科获评 A 以及海洋与能源材料平台，孙世刚则延续并壮大了表面电化学方向。

• In the social sciences the higher-education scholar Pan Maoyuan built the discipline whose second-level form became a national key subject, the economic historian Fu Yiling made the school's Ming and Qing social-history school, the anthropologist Lin Huixiang pioneered Taiwan and Austronesian studies at the university, and the economist Wang Yanan is honoured by the institute for studies in economics that bears his name and opened in 2005.社会科学方面，高等教育学家潘懋元创建的学科以二级学科身份列入国家重点学科，经济史学家傅衣凌奠定明清社会经济史学派，人类学家林惠祥开启校内台湾研究与南岛语族研究，经济学家王亚南则由 2005 年设立、以其命名的王亚南经济研究院纪念。

• Its international scholarly links run from the 1944 inspection by Joseph Needham of Cambridge to the eight honorary professors of 2006, five of them Nobel laureates, including the molecular biologist David Baltimore, the chemist Robert Curl discoverer of fullerene carbon, the monetary economist Robert Mundell, the econometrician Clive Granger whose name is attached to the university's Ministry of Education key laboratory of econometrics, and the theoretical physicist David Gross.其国际学术联系起于 1944 年剑桥大学生物化学家李约瑟的考察，延伸到 2006 年受聘的 8 位名誉教授，其中 5 位为诺贝尔奖得主，包括分子生物学家戴维·巴尔的摩、发现富勒烯碳的化学家罗伯特·柯尔、货币经济学家罗伯特·蒙代尔、名字系于校内教育部计量经济学重点实验室的计量经济学家克莱夫·格兰杰，以及理论物理学家戴维·格罗斯。

• Among graduates in public life, Zhang Gaoli, who read economics at the university in the years after the reopened postgraduate examinations, later served as a Vice-Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Kinmen County magistrate Li Woshi is counted among its alumni, and the Fujian-born Hong Kong businessman and politician recorded as Wong Ker-lee likewise studied here, reflecting the province's emigration economy.政界与企业界校友中，在高考恢复后入读经济学专业的张高丽后任中华人民共和国国务院副总理，金门县县长李沃士列为该校校友，闽籍香港工商界人士黄克礼亦在此求学，折射出福建的移民经济网络。

• In letters and music the poet Yu Guangzhong, author of the lyric Nostalgia, studied at the university in the late 1940s, the avant-garde novelist Bei Cun is an alumnus, the singer Faye Wong enrolled there before her recording career and the Hong Kong singer-actor Raymond Lam matriculated in 1996, while the first chancellor of the Sepang branch, Wang Ruifang, carried the institution's overseas Chinese constituency into a Malaysian campus in 2016.文学与艺术界校友中，写作《乡愁》的诗人余光中于 1940 年代后期在此就读，先锋小说家北村为校友，歌手王菲在出道前入读本校长住，香港歌手兼演员林峯于 1996 年入学，而马来西亚分校首任校长王瑞芳则把学校的海外华人社群延伸到 2016 年开课的雪兰莪校园。