Minjiang University is located in Fuzhou, the capital city of Fujian Province. In 2002, with the approval from the Ministry of Education, Minjiang University began offering full-time bachelor’s degree programs. Minjiang University is a merger of Fuzhou Teachers’College (founded in 1958) and Minjiang Vocational College (founded in 1984). In 2001, Fuzhou Academy of Arts and Design merged in.

Minjiang University has a glorious past. President Xi Jinping once served as the President of Minjiang Vocational College for 6 years (from June 1990 to May 1996) , during his tenure as the Secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee. During his tenure, he proposed the philosophy of “seeking to be the best rather than the biggest, and adapting to the needs of society”and the principles of “building a locally based and market-oriented institution focusing on education quality and practicality”, which have now guided Minjiang University to determine orientations, make plans and decisions, overcome difficulties and take practice actions for its reform and development. Those with the same pursuits will follow each other even from afar. After leaving his position as the president of Minjiang University, President Xi Jinping remained deeply concerned about the university's reform and development. He personally promoted the foundation of Minjiang University and sent congratulatory letters three times specially for the university’s anniversary celebrations. On March 21^st, he returned to the university for inspection and delivered an important speech, which injected the soul of faith into the reform and development of Minjiang University in the new period.

Minjiang University has grown into an influential application-oriented university with a complete disciplines and satisfactory education quality. It has 15 colleges that offer 3 master programs, including MBA, Electronic Information, and Journalism and Communication and bachelor’s degree programs in all the eight major disciplines, covering economics, law, liberal arts, history, science, engineering, management and art.

Minjiang University currently enrolls approximately 17,000 full-time students, with a faculty of more than 1,000, among which more than 45% hold a doctorate degree.

Minjiang University has a total area of 153.07 hectare, with a total building area of 621, 100 square meters. The University owns 586 million yuan’s worth of equipment for teaching and research, 2.0824 million paper-based books and 2.6657 million e-books.

Minjiang University insists on running in an open-up way. Minajing University establishes friendly cooperation with more than 40 universities in the United States, Australia, Canada,  Japan and other countries; works with European University Cyprus to establish the International Digital Economy College of Minjiang University, a Sino-foreign cooperative institution with no legal personality at the undergraduate level; and cooperates with Melbourne Polytechnic to run Fuzhou Melbourne Polytechnic, the first Sino-foreign cooperative institution with independent legal personality in Fujian province.

Data as of October 15, 2024