Founded in 1949,QinghaiNationalitiesUniversityis situated inQinghaiprovince, which is the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and located along the Huang River of Xining city. It retains strong ethnic characteristics and splendid cultures of various nationalities are woven together.QinghaiNationalitiesUniversityis a comprehensive nationalities university which specializes in liberal arts. The university has 15 colleges and 4 teaching and research departments at present, and it educates undergraduate, master and doctoral students in literature, science, law, economics, management, history, medicine and engineering. Covering an area of 1018 mu, it has about 11,000 students, including 1300 Master and Ph.D postgraduates, who come from 30 provinces and autonomous regions and consists of 36 ethnic groups including Han, Tibetan, Hui, Tu, Salar, Mongolian, etc. Up to now, the university has trained 81 thousand qualified students of different ethnic groups.

The university began to enroll international students since 1983. It is the main university to train international students inQinghaiprovince and able to receive China Government Scholarship students. Based on foreigners’ objectives of study and research, the university highlights its advantages in Chinese and Ethnic Chinese majors, develops foreign language and Tibetan language education extensively as well as Bachelor Degree education and Master education on relevant majors, and instructs foreign students on research in ethnology and anthropology. The university offers a wide variety of Chinese language textbooks available with to international students at different levels. It organizes full time and part time teachers who have rich teaching experiences to teach in Chinese, Tibetan, English and other national languages, by taking the mode of giving priority to group of classes and supplemented by extracurricular classes so as to meet the learning requirements of different international students. Up to now, the university has trained more than 2000 long-term and short-term overseas students from over 30 countries includingItaly,France,Germany,Switzerland,America,Canada,Japan, Korean,Indonesia,Kazakhstan,Turkmenistan,South Africa,Australia,BrazilandParaguay.QinghaiNationalitiesUniversityhas established relationships and is undertaking education cooperation with Dresden Industrial University of Germany, Nanzan University of Japan, the Higher Institute of Management of France, the Malaya University of Malaysia, Fort Hays State University of USA, Hannan University of Korea, and theAfricanInternationalUniversityofSudan. Meanwhile, the university is cooperating withChin-yiUniversityof Technology, Fo Guang University,VanungUniversity, etc, of China Taiwan.

2.1 The university has a long history of foreign language teaching, rich teaching experience and good language environment of Mandarin Chinese. It is approved by the National Ministry of Education as a university to recruit overseas students.

2.2 The university has strong ethnic characteristics and students from 36 ethnic groups including Han, Tibetan, Hui, Salar, and Mongolian nationality. It is convenient for overseas students to conduct culture exchanges and appreciate the culture of all nationalities inQinghai.

2.3 Disciplines of nationality including Tibetan language and literature, Mongolian language and literature, and traditional arts (thanka painting). The university set up 15 research institutions such as Institute of Nationality Studies, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Environment Research Institute of Qinghai Province, Tibetan Medicine Institute, Qinghai Provincial Language and Customs Institute. This creates an ideal research environment of national cultures.

2.4Qinghaiprovince has its unique scenery and rich tourism resources. The university offers good study and accommodation conditions, while tuition fee and living cost is low.

2.5 Han, Tibetan, Hui, Tu and Mongolian nationality lives together inXiningcicy and get along with each other very well. In particular, the location of the university is in the east area ofXiningcity which is also the main inhabited area for Muslims. There are many mosques and Muslim restaurants, and thus it is suitable for students from Islamic countries to study here.