About Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
Ratified by the National Ministry of Education in 1998 and
entitled by Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese president, Xinjiang
Medical University (XMU) was founded with the incorporation of
Xinjiang Medical College and College of Traditional Chinese
Medicine. The former Xinjiang Medical College was formulated and
listed by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai as one of the 156 key projects
aided by the former Soviet Union during the “First Five-year Plan”
period and started recruitment in 1956.
XMU offers a wide range of eighteen undergraduate programs
covering three major disciplines such as medicine, literature, and
management through its thirteen departments and faculties, two
teaching departments, five clinical colleges directly under the
university, three detached colleges, namely, the affililated
hospitals. It has three post-doctoral programs, four Doctor’s Degree
Authorization Centers, five MA degree authorization centers of
superordinate disciplines, forty –eight MA degree authorization
centers of subordinate disciplines; five key disciplines at
provincial level, one key laboratory jointly constructed by the
province and the ministry, two key laboratories at regional level,
ten research centers at regional level. Since 1998, the university
has won 58 prizes in scientific research, which made it a leading
university in the region.
XMU has 744 full time teachers, 815 teachers specialized in
medicine, among which there are 286 professors and associate
professors, 73 tutors of doctoral graduate, 525 tutors of
postgraduate candidate, 63 scholars and specialists who enjoy
special government allowance, eighteen regional outstanding
specialists, two young and middle-aged specialists who were awarded
by the national Ministry of Health for their immensive contribution,
four specialists have been selected for “ Project of Numerous
Talents”, five specialists have been elected “Famous Regional
Teacher”. The school recruits students for undergraduate program
from fifteen different provinces, cities and autonomous regions. As
the first choice for students taking the college entrance exams, XMU
has undoubtedly become a top university in Xinjiang Uighur
Autonomous Region.
XMU is currently forging ahead in the hope that it stays in the
van of medical progress among its kind in China and top in the
north-west, which is of great influence over the neighboring
countries.
Admission Procedure and Tuition Fees