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Kunming University of Arts and Sciences
China

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Official website: http://www.caskm.cn/
Tel：0871-65843239,0871-65843296,0871-65843289
Address：Longquan Campus: No. 627, Gangtou Village, Longquan Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province; Yanglin Campus: Yanglin Vocational Education Park, Songming County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province
School motto: Bo civilized and ethical, diligent and enterprising. School style: Honest and trustworthy, diligent and enterprising, ambitious and serving the motherland. School philosophy: Moral education, student-centered, teaching-centered, quality-centered. School goals: modern high school. Horizontal innovative university education model: knowledge transfer, ability cultivation, quality improvement, personality shaping, and organic integration of general education, professional education, and innovation and entrepreneurship education. Action strategies: Think, Change, Do, Review Kunming University of Arts and Sciences was established in 2000. In 2005, the Ministry of Education confirmed it as an independent college. In February 2021, the Ministry of Education approved the transfer from Yunnan Normal University College of Arts and Sciences to Kunming University of Arts and Sciences. The school always adheres to the direction of running a socialist school, fully implements the Party’s educational policy, adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating moral character, adheres to the student-centered, teaching-centered, and quality-centered school-running ideas, and cultivates students who meet the needs of economic, social and scientific and technological development. , have applied talents with solid foundation, strong ability, high quality, innovative spirit and international vision, and are committed to building a modern high-level innovative university. Since its establishment in 2000, the school has trained more than 50,000 qualified talents for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, effectively serving the local economic and social development of Yunnan. At present, the school has 12 secondary colleges (departments), offering 38 undergraduate majors, covering seven major disciplines: science, engineering, economics, liberal arts, management, education, and art, with more than 19,000 students on campus. The Yanglin and Longquan campuses cover an area of approximately 720 acres. The total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment exceeds 100 million yuan, the library has a collection of 2.02 million paper and electronic books, and 200 off-campus internship bases, achieving full coverage of the "smart campus" wireless network. Party building builds the soul and achieves fruitful results. The school's party building work implements the "1256" strategy, gives full play to the political supervision and guarantee role of party organizations, promotes the standardized construction of party organizations around the "five basics", and actively explores the realization of "one integration, two highs" and high-level governance path. Yunnan News Network has a special report on the school’s party building and ideological and political work experience. The General Party Branch of the School of Economics was rated as the first-class party-building model college (department) party organization by the University Working Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Committee, the first-class grass-roots party organization in the education system of Yunnan colleges and universities, the advanced grass-roots party organization of Yunnan colleges and universities, and the "National Party Building Work" "Benchmarking department cultivation and creation unit". The party branch directly under the General Education and Teaching Department and the party branch directly under the Marxist-Leninist Department were selected as "First-class Party Building Demonstration Party Branch". The School of Business Administration was approved by Yunnan Province for the “Three Whole Education” comprehensive reform pilot college (department) project. The School of Information Engineering was listed as the “Creation of First-Class Party Building Demonstration Project” among colleges and universities in the province. The school promotes "ideological and political courses" and "curriculum ideological and political courses" to go in the same direction, and has been approved for 2 key cultivation projects of ideological and political course demonstration courses in higher education institutions in Yunnan Province. In addition, the school has won 1 "Vibrant League Branch" of the National College Communist Youth League and 1 "National Advanced Class Collective", which is the only honor for similar colleges and universities in the province. The school is strengthened by talents and taught by famous teachers. The school has a high-level teaching team with noble professional character, profound professional knowledge, rich teaching experience and rigorous academic attitude. There are currently more than 1,000 full-time teachers, and more than 300 external teachers such as famous teachers from famous universities at home and abroad and industry mentors are employed. Among them, there are 6 expert members of the relevant professional steering committee of the Ministry of Education, 460 people with deputy senior or above professional and technical positions, accounting for 45% of the total number of full-time teachers, and those with graduate degrees or above accounting for 80% of the total number of full-time teachers. The school vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents and actively promotes teacher training projects such as the "Arts and Science Talent Plan", "Overseas Doctoral Training Plan", "Professional Leader Training Project" and "School-Level Teaching Team". It has funded 61 people to pursue doctoral degrees and trained There are 1 “Yunling Famous Teaching Teacher”, 3 “Yunnan Provincial Teachers’ Moral Models”, 2 “Outstanding Young Teachers”, and 5 visiting scholars. Professional construction, outstanding achievements. The school attaches great importance to the construction of disciplines and majors, and constantly optimizes the layout of disciplines and majors. A professional structure for training applied talents in five professional clusters has been initially formed: modern services (logistics), teacher education, culture and media, urban and rural construction, and big data applications. It has completed 2 national-level industry-university cooperation collaborative education-practice conditions and practice base construction projects, 3 Yunnan Province higher education teaching achievement second prizes, 1 Yunnan Province advantageous and characteristic key cultivation discipline, and Yunnan Province provincial-level first-class professional construction 2 points, 1 Yunnan Province undergraduate college transformation and development pilot college construction project, 2 Yunnan Province specialty majors, 1 Yunnan Province higher education institution transformation and improvement service industry demonstration major construction project, 1 Yunnan Province university science and technology innovation team, Yunnan Province There are 2 first-class undergraduate courses in social practice, 3 ideological and political curriculum demonstration projects in Yunnan Province, and 1 key laboratory construction project in Yunnan universities. Nearly 70% of the school's professional evaluation grades are Category C, ranking among the top among similar institutions. Cultivating people with moral integrity and putting quality first. The school focuses on the goals of moral education and the school-running philosophy of "Three Loyalties and Three Loves" and relies on campus cultural activities such as sports, aesthetic education, and subject competitions to improve course interest, academic challenge, and student-teacher interaction. Based on the first classroom, six types of classrooms including innovation and entrepreneurship, practical education, international perspective cultivation, online education, and lifelong learning are comprehensively promoted. In the past five years, the online postgraduate entrance examination, editing examination, and public examination have ranked among the top among similar institutions. The passing rate of teacher qualification certificates for education majors has remained above 70%, which is much higher than the average level of similar institutions in the province. French, Japanese, Korean, etc. It leads similar colleges in passing examinations for minor language majors such as Chinese and Thai. The admission rate for Thai language majors will reach 60% in 2023. Students have won national first and second prizes in the National College Students Mathematical Modeling Contest, the National College Students English Contest, and the National College Student Computer Design Contest. The school has built STUDIO and the "Liberal and Science Entrepreneurship Dream Factory" entrepreneurship platform, and has successively won the titles of "Yunnan Province Entrepreneurship Platform" and "Kunming City Maker Space". Students have accumulated national-level awards in various innovation and entrepreneurship competitions such as the China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National College Student E-Commerce "Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship" Challenge, and the "Study Innovation Cup" National College Student Entrepreneurship Comprehensive Simulation Competition. There were 1 first prize, 3 third prizes; 4 provincial first prizes, 21 second prizes, 50 third prizes, and 3 outstanding organization awards. The school has won the "First Prize" in the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education's annual graduate employment and entrepreneurship target responsibility assessment for many consecutive years. More than 1,000 graduates have participated in national and local grassroots projects such as the Western College Student Volunteer Service Plan, the Rural Teachers Special Position Plan, and the “Three Supports and One Support” program. The school has been rated as "Excellent Western Plan Project Office" by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League for three consecutive years. Both teaching and research have achieved remarkable results. The school adheres to the strategy of developing the school through scientific research, standardizes the management of teaching and scientific research, strengthens teaching and scientific research services, and improves the level of teaching and scientific research. The scientific research work aims to improve academic and scientific research capabilities, and establishes the concept of "serving teachers, serving teaching, and serving the college." With the service concept of "service", we will deepen the classified management of teaching and research and scientific research projects. The number of high-level projects approved for the school’s scientific research, teaching research, and large-scale innovation projects has grown steadily. Teachers have presided over a total of 60 provincial and ministerial-level projects and 185 prefecture-level projects; published 153 monographs and textbooks; published thousands of academic papers, of which more than 150 were included in SCI, CSSCI, CPCI, EI, etc.; and were approved It has 20 national patent authorizations and 19 computer software copyrights. The Provincial College and Provincial School Education Cooperation Project is the first of its kind for similar colleges and universities to be approved for such projects. The Provincial Philosophy and Society Think Tank Project and the Planning Science Popularization Project respectively achieved zero breakthroughs for private colleges and universities to be approved for provincial major projects and key projects. The number of ministerial-level scientific research projects approved ranks among the top among private universities in the province. International exchanges, distinctive features The school offers majors such as English, Thai, Japanese, French, Spanish, and translation, and provides students with multiple language electives such as Korean, German, Arabic, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Lao. Lu Xin, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Education, once visited the school to investigate the talent training situation in 11 foreign languages, and fully affirmed the "language + major" characteristic talent training model. Dr. Goetze, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to China, Dr.The Clemens von Goetze delegation visited the school in 2019 and expressed their appreciation for the school's contribution to German teaching, German language culture and cultural exchanges. The school has received visits from the Spanish Ambassador to China, the Consul General of Japan in Chongqing, the Consul General of France in Chengdu, and the Consul General of Thailand in Kunming, etc., and has frequent international exchanges. As a Chinese cooperative unit of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Office, the school has established an educational and cultural consortium with long-term exchanges and in-depth cooperation with well-known universities in 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and has established long-term educational and cultural alliances with Spain, South Korea, Japan, The cultural and educational offices of the embassies of Thailand, France, Germany and Southeast Asian countries in China maintain close contact with 33 foreign universities. Relying on various international exchange projects, school graduates are employed in more than 20 countries around the world. At the same time, they actively participate in famous central enterprises and state-owned enterprises to serve national strategies and local development. The school has hosted international conferences such as the UNESCO Asia-Pacific International Conference, the National Conference on French Teaching in Higher Education Institutions, the German Foreign Ministry’s “Environment and Conflict Expo”, and the Annual Conference of the Eastern Europe-China Higher Education Forum for three times, continuously expanding the school’s international cooperation influence in the field. The school has established a comparative research center on civilizations along the “Belt and Road”. It is the first private university in Yunnan Province to implement the “Belt and Road” initiative and establish a research institution. The school has achieved outstanding results and achieved fruitful results. The school adheres to the connotation and characteristic development path of "integrating liberal arts and science, integrating Chinese and foreign countries", and strives to build the school into a "modern high-level innovative university". The school is rooted in the Red Soil Plateau to run a university. With the concerted efforts of the school board of directors and the party and government teams, the school's level of education and social reputation have been continuously improved. It has successively won the title of "National Advanced Independent College", "China's Excellent Private Education College" and "Yunnan Province Advanced Private Education Development". Collective”, “Yunnan Provincial Law-based School Management Demonstration School”, “Provincial Civilized School”, “Provincial Safe School”, “5A Excellent Social Organization” and other honorary titles. In 2024, it was ranked among the Chinese private universities in the Alumni Association Network of the iResearch Institute Ranked 15th.