Merged with the South China University of Tropical Agriculture and the former Hainan University in August 2007, the present Hainan University is a key comprehensive university at provincial-level as well as a university jointly sponsored by Hainan people’s government and the Ministry of Education. It is one of the “211 Project” key universities.

The university runs three campuses, namely the Haidian campus, the Chengxi campus, and the Danzhou campus. Its main campus is the Haidian Campus, which is located on Haidian Island of Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province. The total area of the three campuses covers approximately336.66hectare. There are 2,442faculty members, with 1,674full-time teaching staff, 984senior lecturers. The total number of enrolled students amounts to40737. 

Hainan University highlights four aspects: tropic, ocean, special administrative region and tourism.It offers 9 categories of disciplines in philosophy,economics,law,literature,natural sciences，agriculture，engineering，and management. There the school owes a unique statue in studying of rubber and tropical agriculture. The university has 4 major academic schools including21 colleges,and hosts 2 national level key disciplines, 16 provincial and ministerial level key disciplines.There are 74 undergraduate programs,21 postgraduate programs（First-level Disciplines）and 5 Ph.D programs.

          Hainan University has established interschool cooperation relationships with over 80 well-known universities spread during twenties of countries. The university focus on Come In policy as well as Go Out policy. We have invited hundreds of famous scholars and professors for teaching and communication, like Zhores I. Alferov, the Nobel laureate in physics. Meantime, there would be teachers and managerial stuff be sent to overseas for learning and communication.

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