Jilin University

Jilin University is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is located in Changchun City, Jilin Province. The school was founded in 1946 and was listed as a national key university in 1960. In 1984, it became one of the first batch of 22 universities to establish a graduate school. In 1995, it passed the approval of the State Education Commission’s "211 Project" and was listed in 2001. The 985 Project" national key construction university was approved as a school directly managed by the central government in 2004 and was selected as a national first-class university construction university in 2017. In 2000, the former Jilin University, Jilin University of Technology, Bethune Medical University, Changchun University of Science and Technology, and Changchun University of Posts and Telecommunications merged to form the New Jilin University. In 2004, the former Military University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was transferred and merged. The school has a complete range of disciplines, with 52 teaching units, covering 12 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and art; there are undergraduate majors 141, 63 first-level master's degree authorization points, 49 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 2 interdisciplinary doctorate authorization points; 44 post-doctoral research mobile stations; 4 first-level discipline national key disciplines (covering 17 Second-level disciplines), 15 second-level national key disciplines, and 4 national key (cultivation) disciplines. The ESI rankings of 18 disciplines (fields) are among the top 1% in the world, and 2 of them are among the top 1‰ of the world.