Established in 1948, Liaoning University (LNU) is one of National "Project 211" Key Universities of China designated by the Ministry of Education. It is the only comprehensive academic higher education institution of its kind in Liaoning Province in the breadth of disciplines offered like Chinese, History, Philosophy, Economics, Law, Sciences, Engineering, Management, Medicine and Art. LNU operates at three campuses which cover 653,700 square meters of building space.
Liaoning University has 27 schools, 1267 full-time faculty members including 283 professors, 504 associate professors, 119 doctoral supervisors, 83 specialists on special stipend under the State Council of the People's Republic of China, two Yangtze Scholar as “Professor on special appointment” and one academician from China Academy of Sciences on “Joint Appointment” through the State.
Since its date of birth, LNU has been serving the community by sending over 190,000 outstanding graduates to all walks of life, as well as over 8,000 long-term and 3,000 short-term international students from 94 countries. LNU has established the Confucius Institutes respectively with the National University of Irkutsk of Russia, Vilnius University of Lithuania and Dakar University of Senegal. The brand of the Confucius Institute has spanned across Asia, Europe and Africa as the educational globalization progressively steps into a new stage of development.
