With its 18 schools containing 45 departments and a group of research institutes, Xiamen University , has become a comprehensive university providing a fairly complete range of programs of education in humanities, social science, natural science, engineering and technology, management, art education, and medical science. Recently, the university has offered 70 undergraduate programs, 165 graduate programs, of which 6 are professional masters programs, and 100 Ph.D. programs, in addition to post-doctoral research centers set up in 12 first-class disciplines.

Xiamen university has over 4,900 staff, including 2,061 full-time faculty and professional researchers, 17 whom are academicians of CAS and CAE (8 academicians of CAS, 1 academician of CAE, and 8 adjunct academicians). Moreover, 7 faculty members of Xiamen University are seated on the State Council's Academic Degree Appraisal Committee. Among the full-time teachers and researchers, there are 1,252 professors and associate professors, including 337 doctoral supervisors, accounting for 60.4% of the total, 820 holding a Ph.D. degree, accounting for 41.7% of the total, and 786 returned scholars from overseas, accounting for 38.1% of the total.

Xiamen University is now making great strides towards its goal of "building a high-level university well-known both at home and abroad."

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