Faculty and Students
There is a full-time enrollment of over 13,200 students, who can share a variety of teaching and laboratory facilities with a value over fifty million Yuan.
The library, equipped with an electronic reading-room with 120 seats, has a collection of over 1,000,000 books and 160,000 copies of E-books, and subscribes to more than 2,000 Chinese and overseas periodicals. Additionally, there is a biochemistry experiment building, a complex laboratory building, a teaching building for art students, an education and training center, an athletic field with a 400-meter standard track, a gymnasium, and a basketball hall.
The University has 1,320 faculty and staff, including 720 full-time teachers, of whom 160 are associate professors, and 41 are professors. Furthermore, there are more than 100 doctors and masters degree holders, 20 part-time professors and 4 foreign teachers. The university has made great strides in its building and research specialties. Now, the university comprises eighteen departments (or colleges), providing thirty-five specialties for undergraduate students.
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