📖 Introduction

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🏫 About Jishou University (JSU)

Jishou University was founded in September 1958. It runs schools in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Zhangjiajie City in Hunan Province. The school headquarters is located in Jishou City, the capital of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. It is a comprehensive university in Hunan Province and the only comprehensive university in the Wuling Mountains area. Sex University. The school is a university jointly established by the National Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Hunan Provincial People's Government, a national university of "Basic Capacity Building Project for Colleges and Universities in the Midwest", a university "serving the national special needs doctoral talent training project", and the focus of the "Wuling Mountain Area Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Plan" The construction of colleges and universities, the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching level evaluation excellent school, the Hunan Province graduate training process quality evaluation excellent school. The school is an ordinary university that recommends outstanding fresh undergraduate graduates to study for a master's degree without examination . Conditions for running a school: The area where the school is located has convenient transportation and beautiful scenery. It has a world natural heritage — Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Natural Scenic Area, a world cultural heritage — Yongshun Laosi City, and a famous historical and cultural city in China — Fenghuang Ancient City. The school is adjacent to Zhangjiajie Hehua Airport and Tongren Phoenix Airport. 5 expressways and 3 railways meet around the campus. The Zhangjihuai high-speed railway and Xiangxi Airport have started construction. The campus has beautiful scenery, with a total area of ​​more than 2,900 acres, a building area of ​​nearly 600,000 square meters, a total value of 290 million yuan for teaching and scientific research equipment, and more than 6 million volumes of various paper and electronic documents. Disciplines and majors: The school has 50 first-level disciplines and 80 undergraduate majors, covering 11 major disciplines. There are 5 provincial key disciplines (including 1 key discipline with advantages and characteristics); 1 "doctoral talent training project for special needs of the country", 2 post-doctoral research stations (ethnology, business administration); "post-doctoral research station collaborative research and development" 1 center; 15 first-level discipline master's programs, 5 professional master's programs; 3 national-level specialty programs, 1 national-level undergraduate program comprehensive reform pilot program, 1 "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program" program, " There is 1 major of "Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program", and 12 provincial key majors, characteristic majors and comprehensive reform pilot majors. Platform construction: 1 academician workstation; 1 national and local joint engineering laboratory, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national engineering practice education center; 3 Hunan University 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers; There are more than 70 ministerial and provincial research bases, demonstration centers, key laboratories, engineering laboratories, virtual simulation centers, and innovation and entrepreneurship education bases for college students. The school is also the “Experimental Park for International Exchange of Educational Equipment” by the Ministry of Education. Faculty: There are nearly 1,500 on-the-job faculty members, more than 1,000 full-time teachers, more than 700 with senior professional titles, 27 doctoral tutors, 407 master tutors, and 70% of the teachers have a master's degree or above. There are 13 experts from the "Special Government Allowance of the State Council", 1 national-level candidate for the "New Century Hundreds and Tens of Thousands of Talents Project", 7 people from the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program", and 1 outstanding young and middle-aged expert in the study of ethnic issues by the National Ethnic Affairs Commission. There are 2 candidates for Hunan Province's "Hundred Talents Program", 20 candidates for Hunan Province's "121 Talent Project", 2 experts for "Hunan Provincial Government Special Allowance", and 1 Hunan Young Talents; 1 national advanced educator, 2 May 1st Labor Medal, 8 National Excellent Teachers, 5 Zeng Xianzi Education Fund Award Winners, 2 Baosteel Education Fund Award Winners; 1 National Teaching Team, 3 Provincial Excellent Teaching Teams, Provincial Science and Technology 4 innovation teams. Talent training: There are more than 30,000 registered students of various types, including nearly 20,000 undergraduate and junior college students, and more than 1,000 doctoral, master, and international students. Zhangjiajie College of Jishou University (three independent colleges) has more than 7,200 full-time undergraduates. The school has national scholarships, outstanding student scholarships and various special scholarships. The school has built a "Liren Education" system with a system of "curriculum-led, environmental edification, practice and self-shaping", and strives to cultivate qualified talents with "humanistic spirit, scientific literacy, innovation ability, international vision, and pragmatic style". In recent years, the school has won 2 national teaching achievement awards and 26 provincial teaching achievement awards. Students have repeatedly participated in various competitions and competitions such as the China "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National "Challenge Cup" College Students' Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, etc. It has won special prizes and first prizes, accumulatively won 426 national awards and 1589 provincial and ministerial awards. The graduate employment rate remains above 93%. In the past 60 years, the school has cultivated more than 300,000 talents of all levels and types who can "get on, stay, use, and do well". Scientific research: In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 900 scientific research projects above the provincial and ministerial level, and won a total of 29 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research achievement awards. In the past five years, it has won 123 projects of the National Natural Science Fund, 85 projects of the Social Science Fund, and 1 major bidding project of the National Social Science Fund. Social science research focuses on regional economy, national culture, and national history. The research results of differential philosophy, national anthropology, national traditional sports culture, Shen Congwen research, cultural and creative industries, and tourism economy have great influence at home and abroad. Natural science research focuses on the development, utilization and protection of characteristic resources in the Wuling Mountains area, puts forward the theory of "Three Belts", researches and develops "Miliang No. 1" kiwifruit varieties and develops them in depth . A series of scientific research achievements have been made in metal material processing. Social service: The school adheres to the purpose of serving the local school, and actively carries out industry-university-research cooperation. In recent years, it has successively carried out more than 20 substantive industry-university-research cooperation projects with government departments, enterprises and institutions in the Wuling Mountains area. More than 70% of the national and provincial scientific research projects undertaken are for the study of local characteristic resources and urgently needed solutions by local governments. Practical problems. The school has successively released the blue book "Report on the Development of Contiguous Destitute Areas in China". The industrialization of the research results of the delicious kiwifruit "Milang No. 1" has helped more than 200,000 farmers in western Hunan get out of poverty, and the research results of mineral resources in western Hunan have incubated more than 10 high-tech enterprises. Cultural inheritance and innovation: The school gives full play to its positive role in regional cultural inheritance, innovation and leadership, and is known as the "highland" of ideology and culture in western Hunan and the "business card" of the city's image. Undertook a number of major projects such as the "Master Plan for the Experimental Zone of Tujia and Miao Cultural Ecological Protection in Wuling Mountains (Xiangxi)", and "Research on Laosicheng Site" helped Yongshun Laosicheng successfully apply for the world cultural heritage; planned and created large-scale theatrical performances "Charming Xiangxi", this project ranks among the top 35 national cultural tourism performances, and a series of outstanding achievements have greatly promoted the cultural development and prosperity of ethnic areas. The school has built a distinctive "Xiangxi Ethnic Culture Expo Park" with 6 cultural venues (Huang Yongyu Art Museum, Shen Congwen Memorial Hall, Wuling Mountain Biological Science Museum, Xiangxi Ethnic Culture Museum, Ecological Ethnology Museum and Jishou University School History Museum). Foreign exchange: It has the qualifications to recruit foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has successively carried out cooperation and exchanges with more than 20 universities in the United States, Britain, South Korea, Ukraine, Sweden, India, Japan, and my country's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. There are frequent international academic exchange activities such as studying abroad, participating in academic conferences, and holding international conferences. Students can choose to go to the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for exchange and study. The school’s ethnic art troupe has been invited to the United States, Hong Kong and other places The performance has a wide range of influences. Social reputation: The school has condensed the idea of ​​running a "civilian university" ("Building Jishou University into a university that is close to ordinary people, benefiting ordinary people, directly serving and leading regional economic and social development"), and actively explores the characteristics of the times and places. Local colleges and universities with their own characteristics and their own characteristics. It has successively won honorary titles such as "National Model Unit for National Unity and Progress", "National Model Unit for Greening", "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Civilized Unit in Hunan Province", "Safe College in Hunan Province", "Advanced Unit for Employment of College Graduates in Hunan Province" and other honorary titles. Party and state leaders Zhu Rongji , Zeng Qinghong, Wei Jianxing, Jia Qinglin, Liu Yunshan and others came to the school to inspect and guide the work successively. Former Premier Zhu Rongji highly praised "Jishou University is the pride of Hunan", former Vice President Zeng Qinghong affirmed that "Jishou University has special value", and Jia Qinglin, former chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said happily when he inspected the school, "When I saw Jishou University, I saw the hope of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich in the Wuling Mountains." Entering the new era, Jishou University is seizing development opportunities, vigorously promoting the transformation and development strategy, strengthening connotation construction, and striving to build the school into a distinctive and high-level teaching and research-oriented local comprehensive university. Show less
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📬 Admissions Process

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