When Longyan University won the right to grant master’s degrees in 2024, one of its three new programs stood out: a master’s program in veterinary medicine, a rare offering for a young local university. That milestone was reached in western Fujian, a region known as the cradle of China’s revolutionary movement and the ancestral homeland of the Hakka people, two identities that still shape the school’s character.
Its history began in 1958 with the Minxi University teachers college, which became a normal college and later merged with the Fujian Resources Industry School in 2001. In 2004 the Ministry of Education approved it as a full university, and the 2024 master’s accreditation added programs in Marxist theory, veterinary medicine and mechanical engineering. The campus motto, Integrity and Diligence, has guided the school through each step.
Today 13 colleges offer 42 undergraduate programs to 16,000-plus full-time undergraduates and a first cohort of 70 postgraduates, on a campus of about 79 hectares. The faculty includes 480-plus members with senior titles and 118 national and provincial high-level talents. Three disciplines anchor the provincial application-oriented plan.
Teaching and research reinforce each other: four national first-class courses and 13 provincial first-class programs sit beside 37 provincial-level research platforms. Since 2021 students have won 1,458 national awards in academic competitions, and graduates hold a placement rate above 95 percent. The university has carried out 384 national and provincial projects, filed 971 patents, and built joint research institutes for new materials, mechanical equipment and nonferrous metals, with Tianjin University providing counterpart support and Guangzhou University cooperating on the “bay area plus old revolutionary base” model. Two provincial modern industry colleges and 211 invention patents among the filings underline the applied streak.
Internationally, Longyan University works with nearly 40 universities in Germany, Canada, Malaysia and beyond, and was among the first schools in China’s China-ASEAN Thousand Schools program. Approved to admit undergraduate students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, it runs three Fujian-Taiwan joint training programs and has hosted ten ministry-level educational exchanges with Taiwan. From a teachers college on the revolutionary frontier to a master’s-granting university with a veterinary program, it has trained nearly 50,000 graduates who now staff the classrooms, farms and factories of western Fujian.
Data Source: LYUN Official Website (as of 2026)
