Officially founded in 1952 with a history of more than 50 years, Qiqihar University is the only provincial, comprehensive regular institution of higher learning in the western part of Heilongjiang province.
The university occupies an area of 1.26 million square meters with a building area of 750,000 sq m.
Qiqihar University consists of 22 affiliated schools, including schools of chemistry and chemical engineering, literature, history and culture, computer and control engineering, life sciences and agriculture & forestry, foreign languages, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, physical education, applied technology, international education, architecture and civil engineering, economics and management, light industry and textiles, food and biology engineering, music and dance, art and design, philosophy and law, communication and electronic engineering, sciences, education and communication, marxism and continuing education.
Qiqihar University offers 83 undergraduate specialties that are subordinate to 11 disciplines. Specifically, four of the specialties are national characteristic specialties, with two specialties, including bioscience as well as chemical engineering and technology are national comprehensive reform pilot specialties. Two specialties, including high polymer material and engineering and applied chemistry, are provincial comprehensive reform pilot specialties. There are 17 specialties, including law, high polymer material and engineering, business administration, process equipment and control engineering, Chinese language and literature, chemical engineering and technology, education, fine arts, light chemistry engineering, biology engineering, bioscience, physical education, clothing art design, music performance, applied chemistry, English and pharmaceutical engineering are listed as provincial key specialties.
Qiqihar University has an abundance of qualified faculty. 77 percent of the faculty hold doctoral and master’s degrees. It is staffed with 1,510 full-time teachers in total, including 683 professors and associate professors, 183 doctoral and postgraduate supervisors, as well as 15 foreign teachers teaching and lecturing in the university.
Qiqihar University caters for 26,004 students, including 24,547 full-time undergraduates, 1,246 postgraduates, 211 degree-eligible foreign students and 6,423 correspondence students.
The university has made active exchanges with other countries, and has achieved many positive results by establishing inter-collegiate contacts. It has had academic exchanges and established ties with cooperatively-run schools with 24 colleges from eight foreign countries like the US, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Canada, Austria, and Ireland.
Address: 42 Wenhua Avenue, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province
Postcode: 161006
Official website: www.qqhru.edu.cn/index.htm (Chinese)