Yunnan University

Yunnan University is a provincial public comprehensive university in Kunming, Yunnan, China, co-funded by the Yunnan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education.云南大学是位于中国云南省昆明市的省属公立综合性大学，由云南省人民政府与教育部共同出资建设。

Founded on 8 December 1922 by the Yunnan leader Tang Jiyao as the private Donglu University, it took its present name in 1934 and became a national university in 1938.学校于 1922 年 12 月 8 日由云南地方领导人唐继尧创办，初名私立东陆大学，1934 年改称现名，1938 年改为国立。

It placed in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 and 615th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027, was not listed in the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027, and did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 301-400 名区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 615 名，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。

History

• On 8 December 1922 the Yunnan provincial governor's office approved the establishment of the private Donglu University, founded by Tang Jiyao, the province's dominant military and political leader.1922 年 12 月 8 日，云南省长公署批准设立私立东陆大学，创办人为当时掌控云南军政大权的唐继尧。
• The name Donglu came from Tang Jiyao's alias, "Master of the Eastern Continent", and the campus was placed in the old provincial examination hall, the Gongyuan, which had housed the provincial civil examinations for centuries.东陆之名取自唐继尧的别号「东大陆主人」，校址设在旧的云南贡院，这里在历史上长期是全省乡试的场所。
• Dong Ze became the first president, Tang Jiyao chaired the board of directors, and Wang Jiuling served as honorary president.董泽出任首任校长，唐继尧任董事长，王九龄任名誉校长。
• The university held its opening ceremony on 20 April 1923 and laid the foundation stone of Huize Hall, the building that remains its symbol and was named after Tang Jiyao's home county.1923 年 4 月 20 日，学校举行开学典礼并为会泽院奠基，这座建筑后来成为学校的象征，其名称取自唐继尧的家乡会泽县。
• It had planned seven faculties of arts, law, science, engineering, medicine, commerce and agriculture, but opened with only two preparatory classes in arts and science and 120 students.学校筹建时计划设立文、法、理、工、医、商、农七科，但开学时仅设文、理两个预科班，招收学生 120 人。
• In 1925 it added undergraduate work in civil engineering and political economy, one department in each of the engineering and arts fields.1925 年，学校增设土木工程与政治经济两个本科专业，分别隶属于工科与文科。
• In August 1930 the provincial government under Long Yun reorganised the private university as the Provincial Donglu University, attached to the provincial education department, a change that ended its private status and brought it under public funding.1930 年 8 月，龙云主持的云南省政府将私立东陆大学改组为省立东陆大学，隶属省教育厅，学校由此结束私立身份，改由公费维持。
• The following year its departments were regrouped into an arts college with political economy and law, and an engineering college with civil engineering and mining and metallurgy.次年，学校改科为院，设文学院（下设政治经济系与法律系）和工学院（下设土木工程系与采矿冶金系）。
• In 1933 the arts college added mathematics and physics and was renamed the College of Arts and Sciences, and a medical special course was opened in the autumn.1933 年，文学院增设数理系并更名为文理学院，同年秋季又开办医学专修科。
• On 16 September 1934, acting on a Ministry of Education order, the provincial government renamed the institution Provincial Yunnan University.1934 年 9 月 16 日，省政府遵照教育部令，将学校改称省立云南大学。
• In June 1937 Long Yun invited the mathematician Xiong Qinglai, one of China's leading mathematicians of the period, to become president, and in August the university passed from the education department to the provincial government.1937 年 6 月，龙云聘请数学家熊庆来出任校长，8 月学校由省教育厅改隶省政府。
• The province applied for national status on 17 August 1937, and the change took effect on 1 July 1938, making it National Yunnan University.1937 年 8 月 17 日，省政府呈请将学校改为国立，1938 年 7 月 1 日起正式实行，学校成为国立云南大学。
• Xiong Qinglai restructured the university along the lines of Tsinghua University and brought in scholars including Fei Xiaotong, Chu Tunan, Yan Jici, Feng Youlan, Hua Luogeng and Chen Xingshen.熊庆来按照清华大学的模式改造学校，延揽费孝通、楚图南、严济慈、冯友兰、华罗庚、陈省身等学者来校任教。
• During the war with Japan, Kunming's distance from the front made it a refuge for scholars, and several members of the National Southwestern Associated University, formed by Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai universities, also taught at Yunnan University.抗日战争期间，昆明远离前线，成为学者避难之地，西南联合大学的多位教师也在云南大学兼课。
• By 1946 the university had five faculties, 18 departments, three special courses and three research offices, and the Concise Britannica listed it among China's fifteen most famous universities, describing it as one of the country's most prestigious institutions.到 1946 年，学校已设五个学院、18 个系、3 个专修科和 3 个研究室，《简明不列颠百科全书》将其列为中国十五所世界著名大学之一。
• The 1952 reorganisation of Chinese higher education dispersed its law and politics departments to Sichuan University, the Beijing Aeronautical Institute and the new Southwest Political Science and Law College, a transfer that within a few years stripped the university of law, agriculture, medicine and engineering.1952 年中国高校院系调整，学校的法律、政治等学科分别并入四川大学、北京航空学院与新建的西南政法学院。
• Its engineering college became the independent Kunming Institute of Technology in August 1954, the forerunner of today's Kunming University of Science and Technology, into which it was later merged.1954 年 8 月，工学院独立为昆明工学院，即今昆明理工大学的前身。
• The medical college became Kunming Medical College in August 1956, and the agriculture college became Kunming Agricultural and Forestry College in August 1958, the origin of Yunnan Agricultural University and Southwest Forestry University.1956 年 8 月，医学院独立为昆明医学院；1958 年 8 月，农学院独立为昆明农林学院。
• After the adjustments the university retained only arts and sciences with six departments, and in 1958 it was transferred from the Ministry of Education to the Yunnan provincial government.院系调整后，学校仅保留文理两科、六个系，并于 1958 年由教育部下放云南省管理。
• In 1978 the Ministry of Education listed Yunnan University among the country's 88 key universities, and law and other programmes were restored in the 1980s.1978 年，教育部将云南大学列为全国 88 所重点大学之一，法律等专业在 20 世纪 80 年代陆续恢复招生。
• The university entered Project 211 in 1997 and became a province-ministry co-built institution in 2004.学校于 1997 年进入「211 工程」，2004 年成为省部共建高校。
• In 2010 it moved its main campus to Chenggong, in 2011 it restored its medical school, in December 2015 the Yunnan Electronic Computing Center was merged into it, and in February 2022 it entered the second round of the Double First-Class construction.2010 年学校将主校区迁至呈贡，2011 年恢复重建医学院，2015 年 12 月云南省电子计算中心并入，2022 年 2 月入选第二轮「双一流」建设高校。

Academics

• The university is organised into 27 colleges, 14 research institutions, a general education department, an affiliated hospital and a graduate school.学校下设 27 个学院、14 个研究机构、1 个公共课教学部、1 所附属医院，并设有研究生院。
• Its English-language profile lists more than 30 teaching departments offering 65 major fields of study for four-year undergraduate degrees across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and medicine.学校英文简介列有 30 多个教学系部，开设 65 个四年制本科专业方向，范围涵盖人文、社会科学、自然科学、工学与医学。
• Four national base classes select students in mathematical and physical basic science, biotechnology, biological science and history for research-oriented training.学校设有数学物理基础科学、生物技术、生物科学和历史学四个国家基地班，选拔学生接受研究型培养。
• The School of Humanities and Liberal Arts, the School of Economics, the School of Law and the School of Public Management anchor its humanities and social sciences.人文学院、经济学院、法学院与公共管理学院构成学校人文社会科学的主干。
• The School of Life Sciences, the School of Ecology and Environment, the School of Earth Sciences and the School of Materials and Energy carry its natural science tradition.生命科学学院、生态与环境学院、地球科学学院与材料与能源学院承续学校的自然科学传统。
• The School of Information, the School of Software Engineering and the School of Medicine extend the curriculum into computing, software and clinical training.信息学院、软件学院与医学院把课程延伸至计算机、软件与临床训练领域。
• The law school was re-established in 1999 by merging the former Yunnan Political Science and Law College into the university's law department.1999 年，学校在法律系基础上合并云南政法高等专科学校，重建法学院。
• The medical school was restored in November 2011, and in September 2020 the Second People's Hospital of Yunnan became its affiliated hospital.医学院于 2011 年 11 月恢复重建，2020 年 9 月云南省第二人民医院划归学校，成为附属医院。
• Ecology is among the university's strongest fields, and its Institute of Ecology and Geobotany produced nationally used texts on plant community classification and plant ecology.生态学是学校实力最强的领域之一，其生态学与地植物学研究所编写的植物群落分类与植物生态学教材在全国广泛使用。
• The Institute of Palaeontology continues the work of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology and forms part of its research profile in earth and life sciences.古生物研究所延续云南省古生物学重点实验室的工作，是学校地球科学与生命科学研究的组成部分。
• The university herbarium, believed to be the second oldest in Yunnan after the Kunming Institute of Botany, specialises in the ferns of south-western China and was long directed by Chu Weiming.学校植物标本馆据信是云南仅次于昆明植物研究所的第二古老标本馆，专攻中国西南蕨类植物，长期由朱维明主持。
• Its publishing house has issued more than two million volumes of academic works, and the university publishes Ideological Front, classed as a kernel national periodical, and the natural science, social science and law editions of the Journal of Yunnan University.学校出版社已出版学术著作两百余万册，并主办《思想战线》以及《云南大学学报》自然科学版、社会科学版与法学版。
• International cooperation links it with more than 50 universities and research organisations in over 20 countries and regions, including the United States, Britain, Russia, Japan and Australia.学校与 20 多个国家和地区的 50 多所高校及科研机构建立合作，包括美国、英国、俄罗斯、日本与澳大利亚。
• On 27 April 1998 the Yunnan University Science and Technology Corporation was listed on the Chinese stock market, the eighth share-issuing university company among more than 1,000 institutions, making the university one of the earliest Chinese universities with a listed company.1998 年 4 月 27 日，云南大学科技股份有限公司在中国证券市场上市，成为当时全国 1000 多所高校中第八家拥有上市校办企业的高校。
• The university's Biological Technology Corporation was the first Chinese enterprise with independent intellectual property in single-clone antibody research, and its contraceptive and sterility test papers were adopted as national standards.学校生物技术公司是中国首家在单克隆抗体研究领域拥有自主知识产权的企业，其避孕检测试纸与无菌检测试纸被采用为国家标准。
• Its affiliated hospital, the former Yunnan Second People's Hospital, also known as the Provincial Eye Hospital, supports clinical teaching and medical research.附属医院即原云南省第二人民医院，又称云南省眼科医院，为临床教学与医学研究提供支撑。
• The university was selected for Project 211 in 1997 and for the Double First-Class construction in 2017, and it entered the second round of the latter in 2022.学校于 1997 年进入「211 工程」，2017 年入选「双一流」建设高校，2022 年进入第二轮建设。
• Its curriculum spans the liberal arts, law, science, engineering, economics and management, a breadth that reflects its origins as a comprehensive university and is unusual for an institution that lost its engineering and medical faculties in the 1950s.学校课程涵盖人文、法律、理学、工学、经济学与管理学，这一广度体现了其综合性大学的渊源。
• The four national base classes are attached to the School of Physics and Astronomy, the School of Mathematics and Statistics, the School of Life Sciences and the School of History and Archives.四个国家基地班分别依托物理与天文学院、数学与统计学院、生命科学学院与历史与档案学院。

Campus

• The university has two main campuses, the historic Donglu campus and the much larger Chenggong campus.学校拥有东陆与呈贡两个主要校区，前者为老校区，后者规模更大。
• Donglu occupies 535.84 mu in the centre of Kunming, north of Green Lake, and contains a large number of historic buildings, among them Huize Hall, the symbol on the university's seal.东陆校区占地 535.84 亩，位于昆明市中心翠湖北侧，拥有大量历史建筑，其中包括校徽图案所用的会泽院。
• Chenggong occupies 4,016 mu at the southern end of the Kunming University Town in Chenggong District.呈贡校区占地 4016 亩，位于呈贡区昆明大学城最南端。
• The Chenggong campus opened in September 2010, after the university moved out of the smaller Yangpu campus, and became the main campus.呈贡校区于 2010 年 9 月正式启用，学校此前从洋浦校区整体搬迁至此，新校区由此成为主校区。
• The old Donglu campus is retained for graduate study and for the university's historic core, including Huize Hall and the Gongyuan examination site.东陆老校区保留用于研究生教育，并承载会泽院、贡院旧址等学校的历史核心。
• The university has two libraries, the larger on the Chenggong campus, with a collection of more than 1.2 million books, including rare historical works, and the older library serves the Donglu campus while the new one serves Chenggong.学校设有两个图书馆，较大的一座位于呈贡校区，藏书 120 余万册，其中包括珍稀历史文献，老馆服务东陆校区，新馆服务呈贡校区。
• Undergraduates on the Chenggong campus live in four complexes named Zi, Hua, Nan and Qiu, with six-person rooms for first-year students and four-person rooms afterwards, all with private bathrooms.呈贡校区本科生住在「梓」「桦」「楠」「楸」四个学生公寓区，一年级为六人间，之后为四人间，均配独立卫浴。
• The Donglu campus dormitories, including the Dong'er courtyard, Dingxin apartments and the north courtyard, are older and less modern than those at Chenggong.东陆校区的东二院、鼎鑫公寓与北院等宿舍建设较早，条件不如呈贡校区现代化。
• The main campus faces Green Lake Park, a winter habitat for black-headed gulls, and stands near Yuantong Hill, with ginkgo, cherry and plum trees across the grounds.主校区面对翠湖公园，那里是红嘴鸥的越冬栖息地，校园邻近圆通山，园内遍植银杏、樱花与梅花。
• The former Lijiang Culture and Tourism College, once a branch campus in Lijiang, became an independent private college in 2021 under the national policy of converting independent colleges.原云南大学旅游文化学院曾是学校在丽江的分校区，2021 年依据全国独立学院转设政策转设为独立的民办本科高校。

Reputation

• Yunnan University placed in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, the same band it occupied in 2025.云南大学在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 301-400 名区间，与 2025 年所处区间相同。
• It took 615th place in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027, the only one of the four rankings in which it holds a numeric position.学校在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 615 名，在四个榜单中仅该榜给出具体名次。
• It was not listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• The 2024 CWTS Leiden Ranking placed it 527th in the world on the basis of publications from 2019 to 2022, measuring publication impact rather than institutional reputation.2024 年 CWTS 莱顿排名依据 2019 至 2022 年的论文发表情况，将学校列为世界第 527 位，该排名衡量的是论文影响力而非学校声誉。
• The Nature Index 2024 Annual Tables ranked it among the top 250 research universities worldwide for high-quality publications in the natural sciences, which the index counts from a selected set of journals.2024 年自然指数年度榜单依据特定自然科学期刊上的高质量论文，将学校列入全球前 250 所研究型大学。
• It is the leading comprehensive university in Yunnan and one of the oldest in south-western China, with a history stretching back more than a century.学校是云南领先的综合性大学，也是中国西南历史最悠久的大学之一，其历史已逾百年。
• Its selection for Project 211 and the Double First-Class construction, two of the main national designations in Chinese higher education, places it in the national tier of key universities supported by the Ministry of Education.学校入选「211 工程」与「双一流」建设，属于教育部重点支持的全国重点大学行列。
• Ecology, plant science and palaeontology give it research strengths that are unusual for a provincial comprehensive university.生态学、植物学与古生物学赋予学校一些省属综合性大学少有的研究优势。
• Its 1946 listing among China's fifteen most famous universities is still cited in accounts of its history and marks its wartime academic standing.1946 年被列为中国十五所世界著名大学之一，这一事迹至今仍见于校史记述，标志着其战时学术地位。

Student life

• The university enrols nearly 18,000 full-time undergraduates, nearly 18,000 master's students, more than 2,600 doctoral students and about 1,000 international students, according to the university's own account of its current scale.上述数字来自学校对自身办学规模的介绍，学校现有全日制本科生近 18000 人、硕士研究生近 18000 人、博士研究生 2600 余人，学历教育国际学生近 1000 人。
• First-year undergraduates on the Chenggong campus share six-person rooms with private bathrooms and move to four-person rooms from the second year.呈贡校区本科一年级学生住六人间并配独立卫浴，从二年级起转为四人间。
• The Donglu campus retains older dormitories whose conditions are plainer than those at Chenggong, a difference students often note and one that reflects the different ages of the two campuses.东陆校区保留着建设较早的宿舍，条件比呈贡校区简朴，这一差异常被学生提及，也反映了两座校区不同的建设年代。
• The Chenggong campus lies about 45 minutes by bus or subway from the old campus, so student life is divided between the two sites.呈贡校区距老校区约 45 分钟车程或地铁车程，学生的校园生活因而分布在两个校区。
• The old campus faces Green Lake and is close to Yuantong Hill, giving students access to parks, markets and the centre of Kunming.老校区面对翠湖，邻近圆通山，学生可以方便地前往公园、市场与昆明市中心。
• The university's four national base classes and its graduate school create a research-oriented cohort within the undergraduate body.学校的四个国家基地班与研究生院在本科生群体中形成了研究导向的学习群体。
• International exchanges with more than 50 partner institutions in over 20 countries bring visiting students and offer outbound study opportunities.学校与 20 多个国家的 50 多所伙伴院校开展交流，接收来访学生并提供出国学习机会。
• Students in medicine train at the affiliated hospital, while biology and ecology students use the university herbarium, one of the oldest in Yunnan.医学专业学生在附属医院接受训练，生物与生态专业学生则使用学校植物标本馆，该馆是云南历史最悠久的标本馆之一。

Notable people

• Tang Jiyao, the Yunnan military and political leader who controlled the province in the 1920s, founded the university in 1922 and chaired its board of directors.唐继尧是 20 世纪 20 年代掌控云南的军政领导人，1922 年创办云南大学并出任董事长。
• Dong Ze, the first president, led the new private university from its opening in 1923 and oversaw the construction of Huize Hall.董泽是首任校长，自 1923 年开学起主持这所私立大学，并负责会泽院的建设。
• Xiong Qinglai, a mathematician who had earlier built Tsinghua University's mathematics department, served as president from 1937 to 1947, reorganised the university on the Tsinghua model and recruited many of the scholars who made its wartime reputation.熊庆来是数学家，1937 年至 1947 年任校长，按清华大学模式改造学校，并延揽了众多造就其战时声誉的学者。
• Fei Xiaotong, a sociologist, appears on the university's list of notable teachers and alumni, having taught there during the national period.社会学家费孝通出现在学校知名师生名录中，曾在国立时期在此任教。
• Chu Tunan, an educator and translator, is also listed among the scholars who taught at the university during its national period.教育家、翻译家楚图南同样被列为学校国立时期在此任教的学者。
• Chen Xingshen, known in English as Shiing-Shen Chern, was a mathematician on that list and a leading figure in twentieth-century differential geometry.陈省身是名录中的数学家，也是 20 世纪微分几何领域的领军人物。
• Hua Luogeng, a mathematician, appears on the same list, which the university presents as evidence of its wartime academic strength.数学家华罗庚也在同一名录中，学校以此说明其战时学术实力。
• Yan Jici, a physicist, is listed among the scholars associated with the university in the 1930s and 1940s.物理学家严济慈被列为 20 世纪三四十年代与学校有关的学者之一。
• Feng Youlan, a philosopher, is another of the prominent teachers named in the university's account of its national era.哲学家冯友兰是学校国立时期叙述中提到的又一位知名教师。
• Qian Mu, a historian, is another humanities scholar on the university's list of notable teachers.历史学家钱穆是学校知名教师名录中的又一位人文学者。
• Fang Guoyu, a historian known as the father of Naxi studies, taught at the university and helped establish its reputation in south-western ethnography.方国瑜是被称为纳西文化之父的历史学家，曾在校任教，并帮助学校在西南民族研究中建立声誉。
• Yu Jian, a poet, studied at the university and is one of its best-known literary alumni, a leading poet of the post-1980s generation.诗人于坚曾就读于云南大学，是学校最知名的文学界校友之一。
• Hu Yongkang, a petroleum expert and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is listed among the university's alumni.胡永康是石油专家、中国工程院院士，被列为云南大学的知名校友。