Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College

Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College (厦门大学嘉庚学院, website) was established in 2003. It is an independent college that is approved by the Ministry of Education and is jointly organized by Xiamen University, a key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and Xiamen Jiageng Education Development Co., Ltd., operating under a new mechanism and model. In July 2010, the school was awarded “National Advanced Independent College”. From 2011 to 2019, the school was selected to Tencent ’s education industry value list for 9 consecutive years, ranking first on the list of independent colleges, and successively won China ’s most branded independent college, China ’s most branded independent college, most leading independent college, The most famous independent college, brand strength independent college, comprehensive strength independent college, comprehensive influence independent college and other titles.

After 16 years of development, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College currently has 12 colleges, 2 independent departments, 3 teaching departments covering science, engineering, literature, economics, management, law, art, etc. 2 practical teaching training centers and 1 scientific research center, 52 undergraduate majors, 82 professional directions, with about 19,000 undergraduates and 75 postgraduates (co-cultivated with Xiamen University). Jiageng College has enrolled in the second batch in Fujian Province since the start of the school. The quality of its students has been improving year by year. In the past six years, Jiageng College has recruited 1,085 candidates from the first-line candidates across the country. Jiageng College enrolls students in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) across the country. It is the institution with the highest proportion of foreign students among provincial universities in Fujian Province, with 58% of its students. In December 2018, the “Sunshine College Entrance Examination” platform designated by the Ministry of Education’s college admissions sunshine project released the list of the most satisfied colleges in 20 provinces, and Jiageng College ranked second in Fujian Province, after Xiamen University.

Tan Kah Kee College is located on the Zhangzhou campus of Xiamen University. The campus covers an area of 2726 mu. The campus is built by the mountains and the sea, facing the sea across the Siming campus of Xiamen University. The campus buildings are mainly Jiageng style buildings, combining Chinese and Western styles, magnificent and magnificent, strewn between lakes and mountains, creating a learning atmosphere for students to bathe in books, swim in the sea, and think quietly.

Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College provides students with first-class software and hardware facilities. The modern and vigorous library provides 1.98 million books and an elegant and peaceful learning environment. Complete laboratory facilities and an industrial training base with an investment of 52 million yuan provide an excellent platform for strengthening hands-on capabilities. The internship base established in cooperation with 339 well-known enterprises and institutions has established a smooth channel for pre-employment internships. The specialty transfer system and teacher’s question answering system full of Jiageng College make students happy in the interest-oriented learning environment and close teacher-student relationship.

Among the college’s teachers, foreign teachers from the United States, Britain, Japan, Australia and other countries are active. The school has carried out inter-school exchanges and cooperation with universities in the United States, Britain, Japan, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries, and has established talent training cooperation relationships with 25 overseas universities. The school also actively carried out exchange activities with universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and established inter-school cooperative relations with 6 universities in Taiwan.

Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College students have won 155 international competitions, 1,06 national competitions, 160 regional competitions, and 1,558 provincial competitions. They have increasingly established a “high comprehensive quality, strong innovative spirit, practice The brand image with outstanding ability is generally welcomed by employers. In November 2018, in the “Report on the Survey of the Competitiveness of Undergraduate College Graduates in Fujian Province in Monthly Salary Survey” and the “Report on the Promotion of Competitiveness of Undergraduate College Graduates in Fujian Province” released by the Fujian Educational Evaluation and Research Center, the average graduate of Jiageng College The monthly salary ranks fourth among Fujian comprehensive universities, and graduates are promoted to director-level senior executives, ranking second in Fujian comprehensive universities.

Beginning in 2014, the college has entered a new round of leapfrog development, and put forward the development idea of “simultaneous teaching and scientific research, which is based on effective teaching”. It takes system construction and team building as its starting point, and takes practical teaching, open schooling, discipline construction, and scientific research. Work and postgraduate education are the growth points, create characteristics, establish a brand, and strive to achieve a high-level vision of becoming a first-class of similar universities in China, internationally recognized, and a new type of high-quality higher education institution known for effective teaching.