邵阳学院2025年国际学生招生简章（英文版）

Admission Brochure for International Students in Shaoyang University (2025)

1. Introduction to Shaoyang University

Shaoyang University was founded in 1958, and its medical specialty can be traced back to 1906. It was upgraded to a university in 2002 by the merger of the former Shaoyang Normal Higher Specialized School and the former Shaoyang Higher Specialized School, and Shaoyang Medical Higher Specialized School was merged into it in 2016. The university is a province-owned full-time general undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education with the qualification for enrollment of master’s degree students and international students under the “Service National Special Needs Talent Training Project”, and was recognized as a high-level applied university in Hunan Province in 2018.

The university boasts excellent infrastructure, covering an area of 1.673 million square meters, with building space totaling 0.949 million square meters. It possesses assets worth 1.522 billion yuan, research and teaching instruments valued at 0.338 billion yuan, and a library collection of 3.5068 million volumes, including 1.29 million electronic books and 1,471 types of periodicals in Chinese. Besides, the university has access to 50 databases and platforms.

Significant progress has been made in the construction of academic disciplines and majors. With 22 teaching colleges, the university offers two master’s degree programs in mechanical, biological and medical disciplines under the “Service National Special Needs Talent Training Project”. It has 6 Hunan Province application characteristic disciplines and 55 undergraduate majors, covering 11 major academic categories, including economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and arts. The university enrolls students from 30 provinces (municipalities, autonomous regions), totaling 28,071 full-time students.

Shaoyang University gained international student enrollment qualifications in 2012, started admitting international students for language studies in 2015, and began accepting international students for undergraduate programs in 2019. In recent years, the university has actively engaged in international exchanges and cooperation, establishing various forms of collaboration with universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, and other countries. There are now international students from Russia, Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Nigeria, Morocco.