Qadeer Hassan

Shenzhen University

Shenzhen University (SZU) was founded as a public university on May 10th,1983 with the accreditation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and has undergone rapid growth and expansion in the past three decades just like the city of Shenzhen, China's most successful Special Economic Zone. SZU offers multi-level degrees with its 25 colleges, providing 80 undergraduate programs, over 100 master programs, and 9 doctoral programs. The study area at SZU ranges from philosophy, literature, economics, management, law, education, sciences, medicine, engineerings, arts, and history. Today, SZU has become a widely recognized multi-discipline university both home and abroad and strives to be a leading innovative university with an international profile. SZU comprises two campuses, Liyuan campus and Xili campus, occupying 2.8 square kilometers of land area in total. The Liyuan (Lichee Gargen) campus is located on the picturesque coastline of Houhai Bay with 1.44 square kilometer land area, spreading across rolling hills covered with lichee trees and flowers, two lakes, a forest, an abundance of green space and works of art. The new Xili campus now under construction is located in the city's University Town and takes up nearly 1.4 square kilometers. Currently, SZU has about 34,000 fulltime students including 27,000 undergraduates, over 6000 postgraduates, and about 1,000 international students. SZU maintains a high-caliber teaching staff with high qualifications and diverse academic background. The total staff number is 2800 or so, which includes 1,700 teaching staff. Among the teaching staff, 78% percent are professors or associate professors and 60% are PhD holders. SZU implements the concepts of "equal opportunities, aptitude teaching, solid founded knowledge, and serving to the society" in teaching, and optimizes teaching and quality control in order to cultivate innovation and entrepreneurship among students. SZU strongly advo...