Jilin University (JLU; ; often abbreviated JLU or ) is a leading national research university located in

Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...

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. It is under the direct jurisdiction of China's Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University. It is strongly supported by state key projects such as Double First Class University Plan, former Project 985, Project 211 and Project 2011. Jilin University is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious universities in China, and has research projects in automobile engineering, chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering and biology be identified as internationally renowned. In 2017, the university is supported to achieve Class A "world-class" academic status under the Double First Class University Plan by China. JLU's alumni include the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China

Liu Yandong Liu Yandong (; is a retired Chinese politician. She recently served as the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2007 to 2017, a State Councilor between 2007 and ...

History

Founded in 1946 as the Northeast College of Administration in

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, Heilongjiang, Jilin University merged with many universities and colleges and changed its name many times. In May 1948, the Northeast Administration College merged with the Harbin University and was renamed Northeast Academy of Science. In November 1948, the Northeast Academy of Science moved to

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and restored the name of Northeast Administration College. In 1950, it was renamed as Northeast People's University. After the Korean War broke out, it was relocated to

, Jilin. In 1958, it was renamed Jilin University. In 2000, the former Jilin University, the former Jilin University of Technology, the former Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences, the former

Changchun University of Science and Technology (established 1951) Changchun University of Science and Technology () is a key university in Changchun, Jilin, China, previously known as Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (). It was founded by Wang Daheng in 1958. After half a century's developmen ...

and the former

Changchun Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...

combined to form the current Jilin University. On August 29, 2004, the former

University of Military Logistics A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ro ...

also merged with JLU. The university established a campus in Zhuhai in 2003.

Academics

The university has seven campuses in six districts that are home to 47 colleges covering 13 academic disciplines, including

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

, economics, law, literature, education, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management,

military science Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with the study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force. It is mainly focused on theory, method, and practice of producing mil ...

and art. The university has five

state key laboratories The State Key Laboratories () is strong group of university and research institution laboratories receiving funding and administrative support from the central government of the People's Republic of China. These labs often specialize in areas such ...

, one national engineering laboratory, six national-local joint laboratories, one national engineering and technology research center, six humanities and social science key research bases of the Ministry of Education, ten key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, five engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education and 18 key laboratories of other ministries. It is a comprehensive and national key university. JLU offers a variety of degree programs. It has 129 undergraduate programs, 304 Master's degree programs, 244 doctoral degree programs, and 42 centers for post-doctoral studies, 47 first-class university and discipline construction projects. There are 73,702 full-time students, with 27,397 postgraduate students, 43,260 undergraduate and college students, over 2,000 overseas students. There are 6,657 faculty members in total, among which there are 2,110 professors and 1,618 doctoral advisors. There are 43 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering (including 33 adjunct members), 7 senior professors of philosophical and social sciences, 20 members of assessment group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 29 involved in the “ Ten Thousand Talents Program”, 8 national-level outstanding teachers, 5 chief experts in research and construction projects of the Marxism theory in the central government, 6 chief scientists in the national “

Program 973 973 Program () or also known as National Basic Research Program is a basic research program initiated by the People's Republic of China to achieve technology and strategic edge in various scientific fields and especially the development of the r ...

”, 15 young and middle-aged experts with prominent contribution, 59 selected in the “ Changjiang Scholars Program”, 33 winners of the “ National Outstanding Youth Fund”, 31 winners of “ National Excellent Youth Fund” and 90 selected in “Changbai Mountain Scholars” in Jilin Province.

Rankings and reputation

Jilin University was one of the Project 985 universities in China to appear in the world’s top 500 universities in the first global university ranking in 2003, according to the ''

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.'' The joint '' THE-QS World University Rankings'' 2005 ranked Jilin University =245th in the world. As of 2021, the CWTS Leiden Ranking table 2021 ranked Jilin University at 11th in the world based on their publications for the time period 2016–2019. In 2021, it ranked 70th among the universities around the world by '' SCImago Institutions Rankings''. The university ranked 66th among the leading institutions globally in the ''Nature Index 2021 Annual Tables'' by Nature Research, that measure the high-quality research published in 82 high-quality science journals. The University Ranking By Academic Performance (URAP) 2021/22 ranked Jilin University at 105th globally. Jilin University ranked 223rd worldwide and 23rd nationwide in the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) 2022/23.

Facilities

There are more than 50 multimedia and language learning audiovisual classrooms. Special attention has been paid to the construction of 20 basic science laboratories. The university library claims a collection of 7.57 million books and is designated as the library of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and World Bank. It serves as the Comprehensive Information Center of Liberal Arts of the Education Ministry, the only Foreign Scientific Text Book Center in Northeast China, and the National Humanities and Social Science Higher Education Books Import Center. It is one of the seven centers of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) Center in Northeast China. Several campuses have gymnasiums, stadiums, and arenas for basketball, volleyball, table tennis and artistic gymnastics. The Nanling Campus Stadium, which has a grass soccer field surrounded by standard synthetic racetracks, has 10,000 seats. There are tennis and basketball courts throughout the campus. Jilin University has established ties with more than 289 universities, colleges, and research institutes in 39 countries/districts. Over 2,000 foreign students currently attend the university.

People

Notable alumni

* Du Qinglin - politician, vice chairman of

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, Head of the United Front Work Department of the

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

. *

Hu Huaibang Hu Huaibang (; born 25 September 1955) is a Chinese former banker. He was chairman of the China Development Bank, a Fortune Global 500 company. He was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in January 2020 and sentenced to life in prison in ...

- chairman of

China Development Bank The China Development Bank (CDB) () is a development bank in the People's Republic of China (PRC), led by a cabinet minister at the Governor level, under the direct jurisdiction of the State Council. As one of three policy banks in China, it ...

. * Li Congjun -former President of China's Xinhua News Agency. * Liu Qibao - head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee. *

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-par ...

2010 Nobel Peace Prize The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist (1955–2017) "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". The laureate, once an eminent scholar, was reportedly little-known i ...

winner *

Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China The vice premiers of the State Council of the People's Republic of China () are high-ranking officials under the premier and above the state councillors and ministers. Generally, the title is held by multiple individuals at any given time, with ...

* Lü Fuyuan - first minister of the

Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) is a cabinet-level executive agency of the State Council of China. It is responsible for formulating policy on foreign trade, export and import regulations, foreign direct ...

. * Wang Gang (politician) -Director of the

General Office of the Chinese Communist Party The General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, often referred to as the Central Office (), is an office directly under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in charge of providing support for the Ce ...

Wang Gongquan Wang Gongquan () is a billionaire liberal activist in China. He is a main leader and financial backer of the New Citizens' Movement. He was arrested on 13 September 2013 for allegedly "disturbing order in public space". Biography Wang Gongquan ...

- liberal activist, main leader and financial backer of the

New Citizens' Movement The Chinese New Citizens' Movement () is a collection of numerous civil rights activists in mainland China since 2010. It is promoted by the loosely organized civil rights group "Citizens" (successor to the Open Constitution Initiative ()) with ...

* Wang Yongqing - Secretary-General of the

Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (), commonly referred to as ''Zhongyang Zhengfawei'' (中央政法委, literally "Central Poli-Legal Commission") in Chinese, is the organization under the Central Committee of the Chinese Commu ...

* Wang Jiarui - Vice Chairman of the

, director of the

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from 2003 to 2015. * Xu Shaoshi - former Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China, party chief of Minister of Land and Resources *

Xu Xianming Xu Xianming (; born April 12, 1957) is a Chinese lawyer who is considered China's leading authority on human rights law.Chris X. Lin, A Quiet Revolution: An Overview of China's Judicial Reform, Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 2 ( ...

- China's leading authority on human rights law *

Yin Weimin Yin Weimin (; born January 1953) was a Chinese politician who served as the Minister of Human Resources and Social Security and a deputy head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Born in Lingshou, Hebei Province, Yi ...

- Minister of Human Resources and Social Security and a deputy head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party. * Zhang Jun (politician) - Chinese politician and former judge, serving currently as the Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection the country's top anti-corruption body, and the Minister of Justice. He formerly served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China and Vice President of the Supreme People's Court.

Notable faculty

* Andrey Baykov - Russian international relations scholar, Vice-Rector of Moscow State University of International Relations. *

Barry Buzan Barry Gordon Buzan, FBA, FAcSS (born 28 April 1946) is a British political scientist. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and a honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin ...

- Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics, fellow of the British Academy *

Yury Gogotsi Yury Georgievich Gogotsi (born December 16, 1961, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA since the year 2000 in the fields of Materials Science and Enginee ...

- leading Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at

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, founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute * Chen Jia'er - nuclear physicist, an

accelerator physicist An accelerator physicist is a scientist who contributes to the field of Accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams of charged particles accelerated to high energies and the structures and materials needed to ...

and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. * Han Dayuan - President of the Chinese Constitutional Law Society in Renmin University of China *

Huai Jinpeng Huai Jinpeng (; born December 1962) is a Chinese computer scientist and politician. He is the current party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Huai ...

- computer scientist, party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology *

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- member of the South West Africa People's Organization and National Assembly of Namibia, Deputy Speaker of Parliament. *

Kai Li Kai Li (; born 1954) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor of Princeton University. He is noted for his work on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) and co-founding the storage deduplication company Data Domain Inc. which was ...

- professor at the department of Computer Science in Princeton University *

Li Siguang Li Siguang (; 26 October 1889 – 29 April 1971), also known as J. S. Lee, was a Chinese geologist and politician. He was the founder of China's geomechanics. He was an ethnic Mongol. He made outstanding contributions, which changed the situat ...

- founder of China's geomechanics, first present of former

Changchun Institute of Geology Jilin University (JLU; ; often abbreviated JLU or ) is a leading national research university located in Changchun, China. It is under the direct jurisdiction of China's Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Doub ...

(now as College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University). * Lawrence Lau - Hong Kong economist and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. * Long Yifei - Associate Dean of Renmin University of China Law School * Alan MacDiarmid - winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry. * Wilma Olson - professor at the BioMaPS institute for Quantitative Biology at Rutgers University., visiting professor at the Polymer Chemistry Department of the Jilin University. *

Helmut Ringsdorf Helmut Ringsdorf (30 July 1929 – 20 March 2023) was a German polymer chemist. His work promoted cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations in the field of polymer chemistry, biology, physics and medicine. Ringsdorf's major research w ...

polymer Chemist A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic and ...

, known for being the first to propose covalently bonding drugs to water-soluble polymers. * Steve Smith (academic) - international relations theorist, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter and Professor of International Studies. * Song Yuquan, materials scientist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. * Sun Weiguo - president of Xihua University * Tang Aoqing or Au-Chin Tang, theoretical chemist, President of Jilin University, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences * Wang Xianghao - mathematician who introduced the Grunwald–Wang theorem, correcting an error in Wilhelm Grunwald's original statement and proof of this. * Yevgeny Yasin - prominent Russian economist, academic supervisor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. *

Ying Xu Ying Xu () is a computational biologist and bioinformatician, and a chair professor under the title 'Regents-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar' in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute of Bioinformatics at ...

- computational biologist and bioinformatician, chair professor in the Institute of Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia * You Xiaozeng -Chinese inorganic chemist, educator and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. * Zhou Ji (Tsinghua University) - "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished Professor, at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, of Tsinghua University * Zhou Qifeng - Chinese chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of

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. *

Zhu Wenxiong Zhu Wenxiong () was a Chinese linguist and scholar of the early 20th century. He is known books such as ''New Jiangsu letters'' (''Jiangsu xin zimu'') (1906), which was an influential works in modern Chinese linguistics. In regarding to language ...

- Chinese linguist. * Zhu Guangya - renowned Chinese nuclear physicist, head and first director of Jilin University Department of Physics