Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine is located at the core area of Shaanxi province, ----the Xi’an-Xianyang New Economic Zone, which is the nearest junction area both to Xi’an and Xianyang city, and what’s more, which is the key region for westward expansion of int’l metropolis Xi’an, with tremendous development space and great potential. Thus, we enjoy convenient transportation, satisfactory environment, and what’s more, for students it is an ideal place to study. Our university enjoys rigorous scholarship and dense academic atmosphere, therefore the masters gather here, and men of talent come out in succession, More than 2,415 teaching and administrative staff (including staff in two affiliated hospitals) contributes themselves to the development of the university, with 492 associate professors and above. There are 224 supervisors of master’s degree programs and 11 supervisors of doctor’s degree programs. In particular, our university owns a great master on TCM-ZHANG Xuewen, who is the only one in the northwest of China. Celebrated experts, scholars and professors, such as Prof. GUO Chengjie, the famous inheriting acupuncturist expert (only three in China for his level) for world non-material cultural heritage inheriting program, also contribute themselves to the construction of the university.
For more than 60 years, our university not only has formed a whole education system to train the advanced personnel of TCM, including the education of undergraduate, postgraduate, adult, international as well as students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but also has a large scale, offering more than 20 undergraduate programs, such as TCM, acupuncture and moxibustion, Traditional Chinese Drugs (TCD), culture of Chinese language (teaching Chinese as a foreign language), English (international communication on TCM), etc.. We has begun to enroll postgraduate students since 1978, with TCM, combination between TCM and modern medicine, TCD, clinical medicine four first-class majors; acupuncture and moxibustion, basic theory on TCM, theory on TCM prescription, TCD, etc. more than 30 second-class majors. It integrates education, scientific research and medical service into itself.
Basically, with the TCM and TCD as the core, the professional layout includes the mutual-infiltrated, promoting, coordinated and balanced medicine, science, literature, management, and engineering.
In the year of 1990, our university was approved as one of the first higher education units to accept international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan by the Ministry of National Education. Our university has established the training system of different levels and approaches, including full-time undergraduate, master postgraduate, and short-term training program. The Dept. of International Cooperation and Communication (including Office of Hong Kong、Macao and Taiwan Affair) is responsible for all kinds of international students’ recruitment and acceptance, as well as the arrangement of teaching plan, providing excellent service for all students’ study and life. With the external continuous educational development, our international students’ enrollment is upward increasing, up to now, there are altogether 1,000 students, from countries like Canada, the US, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Republic of Kazakhstan, districts like Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, gained their bachelor and master degrees. We have trained more than 2,000 professional talents for more than 50 countries and districts.
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