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Peking University

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13 Feb 2008 09:50 CST

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Peking University is a comprehensive and National key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"-- the gardens of Yan, is situated at the  northeast of the Haidian District at the western suburbs of Beijing. It stands near the Yuan Ming Gardens and the Summer Palace.

The University consists of 30 colleges and 12 departments, with 93 specialties for undergraduates,2 specialties for the second Bachelor's degree, 199 specialties for Master candidates and 173 specialties for Doctoral candidates. While still laying stress on basic sciences, the university has paid special attention to the development of applied  sciences.

At present,  Peking  university has 216 research institutes and research centres, and there are 2 national engineering research centres, 81 key national disciplines, 12 national key laboratories.

The university has made an effective combination of the research on important scientific  issues with the training of personnel with high level specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for the  simultaneous improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of  interaction and mutual promotion among various subjects.Thus Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of the new type,  consisting  of diverse branches of learning such as pure and applied sciences, social sciences and the  humanities, and sciences of management and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's  best universities at the beginning of the next century.

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http://www.pku.edu.cn/eindex.html

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