Remin (People) University of China

General Information 

Located in Beijing, the national capital of China, Renmin University of China (RUC) or People University of China, is a key comprehensive and research-orientated university, and also the most prestigious university in the humanities and social sciences in China’s higher education.

 

RUC was established in 1937 during the resistance war against Japanese aggression. The University acquired its present name on October 3, 1950, which made it the first university to be established by the newly founded People's Republic of China. Well-known educators including Wu Yuzhang, Cheng Fangwu, Yuan Baohua. Huang Da, and Li Wenhai have all served as president of the University.  RUC incumbent president is Professor Ji Baocheng, and Professor Cheng Tianquan is the Chairman of the University Council.

 

Since its establishment, sharing a common mission with the Party and the nation, RUC students and teachers have always endeavored to make RUC the vanguard of the era. RUC has been regarded as "A Standard in the Humanities and Social Sciences in China’s Higher Education Sector" for a long time.

 

RUC now comprises 22 schools of different disciplines,14 inter-disciplinary research centers, 16  transitional centers for post-doctoral fellows, and also a School of Continuing Education, a School of Education and Training, the Shenzhen Research Institute, and International College (Suzhou Research Institute).

 

For now, RUC ranks first at least in the following areas among all universities in China in the humanities and social sciences area:

·RUC owns 13 key national research bases in the humanities and social sciences;

·RUC owns 8 key national main disciplines and 8 key national secondary disciplines;

·RUC owns 25 awarded doctoral degree dissertations of nationwide outstanding prizes in the past 11 years and ranking first in amount compared with other institutions;

·RUC owns 7 disciplines that’s been ranked No.1 by Ministry of Education in 2009

 

The quality of postgraduate research is witnessed in the 25 doctoral degree dissertations that have been awarded outstanding prizes in nationwide evaluations of Ph.D dissertations. RUC is now authorized to offer bachelor's degrees in 65 areas, and double degrees in 8 areas. RUC has 158 Masters programs and 104 Ph.D. programs. According to the Ministry of Education’s appraisal release of 2009, 7 disciplines of the university, namely Applied Economics, Theoretical Economics, Law, Political Science, Sociology, Journalism & Communication and Marxism Studies have been ranked No.1 nationwide, Philosophy and Library Information and Archive Management No.2 and Business Administration No.3. These remarkable data has once again proved the leadership of Renmin in humanities and social sciences of Chinese higher education..

 

RUC’s renowned scholars of past generations has continuously striven to pave a solid foundation for the construction and development of disciplines, in education and training, and for furthering research. These scholars include Wu Yuzhang, Cheng Fangwu, Fan Wenlan, Ai Siqi, He Sijing, He Ganzhi, He Luo, He Hua, Shang Yue, Wu Jingchao, Li Jinghan, An Gang, Shi Jun, Miao Langshan, Li Xiulin, Xu He, Han Feng, Xu Mengxiong, Meng Yang, Tong Rou, Dai Shiguang, Liu Zheng, Zha Ruichuan, and Miao Litian. At present, RUC has a large group of well-known leading scholars who are highly regarded both in China and overseas.

 

A highly qualified and well structured teaching and research body has been formed. As of October 2009, RUC has a faculty of 1759 which includes 504 professors and 606 associate professors. In addition, since 1979, more than 500 eminent scholars from overseas have served as long term faculty at RUC as honorary professors, resident professors, or part-time professors.

 

In 2009, RUC reached an enrollment of 22,856 full-time students, including 10,852 undergraduate students, 9,834 postgraduate students, 1,578 international students and 592 other students. In addition, RUC also has an enrollment of 3,650 master students of single diploma, 12,852 students of adult education, and 42,815 online learning students.

 

With the idea of building a world class university, focusing on humanities and social sciences with elite natural sciences & engineering as supplement, RUC is devoted to making students "outstanding exemplars of the country, and the backbone of the society", cultivating talents well adapted to the 21st century. RUC has produced a large body of talented personnel in the theoretical, practical, and managerial worlds, in order to promote China's economic construction and social development. Since 1937, the university has cultivated more than 200,000 high-level talents for society most of whom have become well known in their fields of work, and who individually or collectively have made a great contribution to the development and progress of China or even of the World.

 

As one of the most prominent research institutions in China, holding the idea that humanities and social sciences should play a more essential role to help know nature and the world, to inherit human civilization, to innovate knowledge, to cultivate people and to serve society, RUC has made important contribution in research into major issues in politics, economics, culture and social studies. The role RUC has played, and the contributions RUC has made, have provided a strong theoretical underpinning and intellectual support for China's economic construction and social development.

 

Since 2001, RUC has received nearly 200 provincial or ministerial research awards. RUC ranks No.1 regarding to the whole amount of projects secured from the National Social Sciences Foundation or the Key Projects on National Strategy in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education. RUC again ranks first among all universities in China with respect to the total yearly number of articles published in CSSCI(Chinese Social Science Citation Index) journals in the between 2004 to 2008.

  

Chinese top leaders Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping all had great confidence and encouraged the development of Renmin University of China. Communist Party leaders have continued to show great concern for the construction and development of RUC. Mr. Jiang Zemin, former President of China, wrote inscriptions for RUC on two occasions, expressing his high expectations that RUC could do its best to produce outstanding talented personnel for the construction of socialist modernization in the new century. Mr. Jiang Zemin visited RUC on 28 April, 2002, and made an important speech in which he expressed the hope that RUC would, "Achieve new accomplishments in the new century, make greater contributions to the motherland, for the people, and for the construction of socialist modernization, and become one of the world's best and most renowned universities in the humanities and social sciences".  Mr. Hu Jintao visited RUC on Sept. 9, 2010, who affirmed and encouraged  RUC’s goal to build into “a world-renowned university that is approved by and satisfies the people”.

 

The School of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development

The School of Business

The School of Continuing Education

The School of Economics

The School of Environment & Natural Resources

The School of Finance

The School of Foreign Languages

The School of History

The School of Information

The School of Information Resource Management

The School of International Studies

The School of Journalism

The School of Labor and Human Resources

The School of Law

The School of Literary Studies

The School of Marxism Studies

The School of Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language

The School of Philosophy

The School of Public Administration

The School of Statistics

The School of Sociology & Population Studies

The School of Arts

The Institute of Qing History

Department of Physics

Department of Chemisty

School of Education and Training

 

Address: No. 59, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing

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