Tibet University

Tibet University is a comprehensive university under the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is a key university under the national "211 Project" and a world-class discipline construction university. In September 2004, it became a university jointly built by the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Education. In May 2013, it was included in the "Central and Western Higher Education Revitalization Plan". In February 2018, it became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The history of the school can be traced back to the Tibetan cadre training class founded by the troops entering Tibet in November 1951.

Tibet University is a comprehensive university under the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is a key university under the national "211 Project" and a world-class discipline construction university. In 2013, it was included in the "Central and Western Higher Education Revitalization Plan". In 2018, it became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The history of the school can be traced back to the Tibetan cadre training class founded by the troops entering Tibet in 1951. It has gone through the development stages of the Tibet Military Region Cadre School, the Tibet Local Cadre School, and the Tibet Administrative Cadre School. In 1965 and 1975, in order to meet the needs of millions of emancipated serfs to learn culture and build a socialist new Tibet, the school went through the development stages of Tibet Normal School and Tibet Normal College, creating a precedent for teacher education in Tibet. In order to meet the needs of talents for the rapid economic and social development in Tibet, the school was officially renamed Tibet University in July 1985 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. Since 1999, the Tibet Autonomous Region Art School, Tibet Medical College, the Medical Department of Tibet Nationalities College, the Tibet Autonomous Region Finance and Economics School, and the Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College have been successively incorporated into Tibet University, entering a new stage of establishing a comprehensive university with ethnic regional characteristics. In 2016, the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College of Tibet University was separately set up as the Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College.

The university has four campuses: Naqin Campus, Hebalin Campus, Norbulingka Medical College Campus and Norbulingka Finance and Economics College Campus, covering a total area of ​​more than 1,400 acres and a building area of ​​469,200 square meters. The Education City Campus is under planning and construction. It currently has 15 colleges (departments), including the College of Arts, College of Science, College of Engineering, College of Medicine, College of Art, College of Economics and Management, College of Tourism and Foreign Languages, College of Political Science and Law, College of Education, College of Finance and Economics, College of Information Science and Technology, College of Marxism, Tibet Branch of the National Open University, College of Continuing Education, and International Exchange and Cooperation Office (Department of International Students). The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 675 million yuan. The total collection of books is 1.444 million volumes, including the Tibetan manuscripts of the "Puri Documents" from the Tubo period more than 1,000 years ago. Among them, the 10th century manuscripts of the "Great Prajnaparamita Sutra" and the "Great Prajnaparamita Sutra 25,000 Verses" were selected into the third and fifth batches of the "National Precious Ancient Books List" respectively, and the "Selected Photocopy of the "Puri Documents"" was listed as an important achievement of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up by the China Tibetology Research Center. There are more than 540,000 electronic books.

The school has 1,151 full-time faculty and staff, including 836 full-time teachers and other teachers. Among the full-time teachers and other teachers, 367 have senior professional titles, accounting for 43.9%; 614 have master's degrees or above, accounting for 73.4%. At present, there are 30 national high-level talents of various types, including 9 CJ scholars of the Ministry of Education, 4 QR plan and 5 WR plan of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, 6 talents of the Hundred Thousand Talents Project of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 4 New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, 1 National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent of the Ministry of Personnel, and 1 Cultural Celebrity and "Four-Batch" Talent of the Central Propaganda Department. 1 National Model of Teacher Ethics, 6 National Excellent Teachers and Model Teachers.

The school has 24,000 students of various types, including 10,345 ordinary undergraduates, 233 doctoral students, 1,925 master's students, and more than 11,000 adult students of various types.

The school has three first-level doctoral degree authorization points in ethnology, Chinese language and literature, and ecology, 21 first-level master's degree authorization points and 14 professional master's degree authorization points. There are two national key disciplines, ecology and Chinese language and literature (Tibetan language and literature), 14 autonomous region-level key disciplines, and ecology has been selected as a world-class discipline construction.

The school has 53 undergraduate majors, covering 10 disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, medicine, management and art. Seven majors including law, Chinese minority languages ​​and literature, computer science and technology, fine arts, economics, physics and environmental science were selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 12 majors were selected as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. Two courses, "English Teaching Methods for Middle Schools" and "Human Resources Management", were selected as national first-class undergraduate courses, and 20 courses were selected as autonomous region first-class undergraduate courses. "Marxist Motherland, Nationality, Religion, Culture and Education Overview" and "Human Resources Management" are two national quality courses, 20 autonomous region quality courses, two national teaching teams in Tibetan language and literature, computer and Tibetan information technology, four national characteristic professional construction sites in mathematics and applied mathematics, clinical medicine, musicology and fine arts, "Information Technology Experiment" National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, one national college student off-campus practical education base, six autonomous region-level teaching teams, and five autonomous region characteristic majors. There are 13 members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education. In recent years, the university has won two national teaching achievement awards, namely "Promoting the Education of the Four Views of Marxism as a Whole and Cultivating "Reliable" High-Quality Talents" and "Exploration and Practice of the Talent Cultivation System of Computer and Tibetan Information Processing", 30 autonomous region-level teaching achievement awards, and was selected as one of the "First National Demonstration Universities for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education". It undertakes one national excellent doctor education and training program project, one national professional comprehensive reform pilot project, five autonomous region-level talent training model reform projects, four autonomous region professional comprehensive reform pilots, 61 autonomous region-level teaching reform projects, 451 national college student innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects, and 879 autonomous region college student innovation and entrepreneurship training programs.

The university has important national scientific research platforms such as the Ministry of Education's Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, the Ministry of Education's Engineering Research Center, the Ministry of Science and Technology's Demonstration Base for Innovative Talent Cultivation, the National Development and Reform Commission's National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center, the Ministry of Education's Key Laboratory, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Autonomous Region's Joint Key Laboratory. There are 2 field observation stations of the Ministry of Education - Nagqu Maidika Wetland Ecological Station and Bomi Geological Hazard Field Scientific Observation and Research Station, 2 "region-ministry co-construction" collaborative innovation centers - China's ethnic minority social and economic development collaborative innovation center, Tibet informationization provincial and ministerial co-construction collaborative innovation center, 1 autonomous region college philosophy and social science research base - Tibet University Economic and Cultural Research Center, 3 autonomous region-level collaborative development centers - China's ethnic minority economic development collaborative innovation center, Tibet informationization collaborative innovation center, Pan-Himalayan human activities and regional development collaborative innovation center, 4 autonomous region key laboratories - Tibetan Information Technology Laboratory, Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Modern Education Technology Comprehensive Laboratory, Cosmic Ray Open Laboratory, 11 autonomous region college key laboratories, 3 autonomous region college scientific research innovation teams - Tibet Economic Research Scientific Research Innovation Team, Tibetan History and Culture Research Scientific Research Innovation Team, Plateau Biodiversity Research Scientific Research Innovation Team, 2 provincial and ministerial engineering research centers - Tibetan Information Technology Research Center-National and Local Joint Engineering Center, Tibetan Information Technology Research Center-Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center.

Over the past five years, the school has undertaken nearly 800 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, including five major and key projects of the National Social Science Fund, three key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a research fund of more than 300 million yuan. It has won 9 Everest Awards for Chinese Tibetan Studies, 1 Science and Technology Innovation Award from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, 1 "Outstanding Contribution Award for Cyber ​​Security" from the National Internet Development Foundation, 3 Outstanding Achievement Awards for Scientific Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, 7 Outstanding Awards for Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Autonomous Region, 9 Outstanding Achievement Awards for Humanities and Social Sciences Research of Higher Education Institutions of the Autonomous Region, and 13 Science and Technology Awards of the Autonomous Region.

The Ministry of Education has successively established counterpart support teams with 11 universities including Peking University, Wuhan University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Central University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan University, South China Normal University, Renmin University of China, Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Lanzhou University, and Jilin University as members, and carried out multi-level and multi-field support and cooperative construction in the fields of discipline construction, team building, scientific research, and talent training, which has injected strong impetus into the construction and development of the school. The school attaches great importance to foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established good inter-school cooperation relations with more than a dozen universities in Norway, Japan, the United States, Italy, Germany, Nepal, France and other countries, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as many domestic universities and research institutes.

Over the past 70 years, the school has explored a successful path to establish modern higher education in special plateau frontier ethnic areas, and has trained more than 80,000 professionals of all levels and types, providing important intellectual support for the economic construction and social development of Tibet and Southwest my country, and becoming an important base for the cultivation of innovative talents, scientific research and achievement transformation, high-level decision-making consultation and national cultural inheritance and innovation in Tibet, and an important window for opening up and exchanges.

Looking into the future, the university will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, conscientiously implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on Tibet work and education, bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest trust that “running Tibet University well is of great fundamental and strategic significance for building a new socialist Tibet” and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important reply to the students of the School of Medicine of Tibet University, fully implement the Party’s education policy and the Party’s Tibet governance strategy in the new era, strengthen the Party’s overall leadership, adhere to the correct direction of running schools, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, vigorously carry forward the “Old Tibet Spirit”, adhere to the concept of “running a distinctive high-level university”, seize the major historical opportunities of the joint construction of the ministry and the region and the construction of world-class disciplines, and be based in Tibet and face Nationwide, we have condensed the two characteristic disciplines of "plateau science and technology" and "national excellent culture", and have taken serving the major strategic needs of the country and the local area, inheriting and promoting the excellent national culture as the purpose of running a school, adhering to the idea of ​​"establishing a school with characteristics, developing a school with quality, strengthening a school with talents, opening up a school, and sustainable development", and improving the ability and level of talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchanges and cooperation. We will strive to cultivate socialist builders and successors who are "reliable, useful, and stay", and strive to build the school into a high-level comprehensive university with outstanding characteristics, domestic influence, and international reputation as soon as possible, and strive to write a good chapter in Tibet to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the people's yearning for a better life.

(Data statistics as of October 2021)