Top Suburb Universities in China128 Universities

Xiangtan University

City: Xiangtan

Level: Ordinary

Type: Comprehensive

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Public

• It is one of China’s first educational institutes authorized to award master’s degree and is also among the earliest schools approved to enroll overseas students and students of national defense.


• The disciplines of university cover 9 varieties and form a series of professional groups with peculiar characters and obvious advantages.


• The library has a collection of 2,426,000 books and 2,846 periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages. The scale and administration of student apartment buildings are first-class in China.


• In the 2005 Challenge Cup Competition, the university won three competitions for first, second and third places.


• The employment rate remains above 95 per cent.


• In the past decades, the school has been expanding its exchange and cooperation with over thirty universities in more than twenty countries.

Yunnan Agricultural University

City: Kunming

Level: Ordinary

Type: Agriculture and Forestry

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Public

• The university enjoys a collection of 1.3257 million volumes of books in its two libraries.


• Yunnan Agricultural University has 5 national platforms for teaching, scientific research and social services.


• At present, YAU is coordinating and doing projects of GEF/UNEP, EU, national key science and technology program (973 & 863), national science foundation, provincial science and technology program, and provincial science foundation.


• Since 2000, the university has been awarded over 300 times by international and domestic organizations: a first prize for scientific research by FAO, a prize for outstanding science by CGIAR, a prize for science and technology progress by Ho Leung and Ho Lee Foundation, a second prize of the national technology invention, and so on.


• YAU successively established the intercollegiate exchange and cooperation of science and technology with colleges, universities and research institutions in Britain, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia and other countries and regions.

Yunnan Arts Institute

City: Kunming

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Public

• Yunnan Arts University (YNART), which was founded in 1959, is the only comprehensive art university in Southwest China.


• The university also has an Affiliated Art School.


• The Center of International Art Exchange (COIAE) of YNART is responsible for recruiting, teaching, and administrating international students.

Tourism College of Zhejiang

City: Hangzhou

Level: Ordinary

Type: Finance and Economics

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Public

• Tourism College of Zhejiang (TCZJ) is a public college of higher tourism education under the administration of both the National Tourism Administration of the People’s Republic of China and the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province.


• TCZJ is now running three Sino-foreign cooperative schooling projects with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.


• So far, the college has established friendly and cooperative relations with 22 institutions of higher learning from 15 countries and regions.


• TCZJ has managed to establish close relationship with tourism industry by carrying out the Six “One-hundred” Cooperative Programs between TCZJ and a number of well-known industries both at home and abroad.


• TCZJ, as one of the high-profile tourism colleges in China, has been cultivating tourism talents with dedication, social responsibility, philanthropic spirit and international vision.

Zhejiang Wanli University

City: Hangzhou

Level: Ordinary

Type: Science and Engineering

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Public

• Zhejiang Wanli University makes strenuous effort to promote the internationalization of education.  The university has developed co-operative links with ones in UK, America, Canada and Japan.


• By articulating curriculums and exchanging faculty and introducing learning resource, ZWU sets up direct ways for its students who wish to pursue further study at the universities in countries mentioned above.


• ZWU is now in the process of developing exchange programs with universities from USA, Australia, New Zealand, France and Switzerland thus trying to provide students and teachers with a broader choice of destination for international exposure.

Central South University of Forestry and Technology

City: Changsha

Level: Ordinary

Type: Comprehensive

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Public

• Currently the university consists of 19 colleges, 2 independent schools and 1 department.


• The university has 3 post-doctoral programs, 2 discipline-level doctoral programs, 17 sub-discipline doctoral programs, 4 discipline-level MA or MS programs, 46 sub-discipline MA or MS programs.


• The university has 3 State-level key disciplines, 4 national-accredited key disciplines under the State Forestry Bureau, 9 provincial key disciplines.


• The university offers 62 undergraduate programs. The university has 7 State-managed degree programs and 9 provincial key disciplines.


• CSUFT has 1 State-level field observation station, 1 State-level engineering lab, 1 State-level teaching & experiment center, 1 key and open lab under the State Forestry Bureau, 1 provincial- level industrial furniture design center, 3 provincial key labs, 2 provincial-level teaching & experiment centers.


• Wide academic exchanges and cooperation have been established with about 50 universities, research institutes and enterprises from over 20 countries.

Yinchuan University of Energy

City: Xinyang

Level: Ordinary

Type: Science and Engineering

Location: Suburb

Attribute: Private

Education Department of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region,Yinchuan Government