Welcome to the new English website of Jilin University. Our goal is to provide our partners, alumni donors, students and their parents as well as our faculty members, as you get on this website, with all the information available as a key extensive research university in China. It is hoped that you will know more about us through this website.

Jilin University is distinguished by innovative research and scholarship across the widest coverage of disciplines. It has now the highest enrollment and is an important national training base for nurturing professionals and elites in philosophy, economics, law, literature, education, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and military science. Not only can undergraduates enjoy an excellent learning environment, but also graduate students benefit from opportunities of working in national laboratories and doing research in national projects, under the guidance of learning scientists, eminent professors and academicians. Many world-renowned experts conduct joint research with our faculty members; overseas students from all over the world come to Jilin University. On our campus appears a fresh wind of intellectual and academic liberty, with different cultures intertwined and interacted with each other, which predicts a bright and prosperous future.

With the rapid economic and social development, China is now playing a more important role in world. In response to the globalization, Jilin University is trying to be well involved in it in terms of the internationalized higher education. Dozens of agreements for institutional and faculty collaboration have been signed, involving many countries and regions. Besides the college of International Language, more and more colleges are involved in the education of overseas students in different disciplines. At present, there are more than 1000 overseas students studying at Jilin University.

Responding to the challenges of new century, Jilin University has worked out its new developing strategy and set up a long-term goal of ranking among the world top universities and achieving international reputation. Bearing our goal in mind, we will unswervingly adhere to our motto: Seek truth, be innovative and endeavor to work for the best. As president of Jilin University, I sincerely hope the alumni both home and abroad will continue to support our university’s construction and development and also expect more international partners to join us. Let us strive together and share the happiness of success together.

ZHOU Qifeng
President