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About Kunming City College

Kunming City College (formerly Business college of Yunnan Normal University) was established in June 2000 with the approval of the Ministry of Education, and is one of the first independent colleges in Yunnan Province, belonging to the general higher education undergraduate level.

Since its establishment, the College has comprehensively implemented the Party’s education policy, adhered to the fundamental task of establishing moral education, with the vision of “running the best applied university and the most caring university”, and devoted itself to cultivating applied talents with solid professional foundation, strong practical ability, high comprehensive quality, family sentiment and understanding of international rules for regional economic and social development. After 20 years of development, the College has continued to improve its collegeing conditions, and its collegeing characteristics are beginning to emerge, with the level of collegeing and social reputation constantly improving.

The college is run on two campuses, with more than 19,000 students enrolled; there are more than 1,000 full-time teachers, of whom more than 70% are teachers with master’s degrees or above, and more than 30% are teachers with associate titles or above. There are 7 teaching units, 8 disciplines and 54 undergraduate majors, including Music Education and Artificial Intelligence, which will be newly established in 2022; the distribution of majors is 13 in Management, 4 in Economics, 14 in Art, 4 in Education, 10 in Literature, 7 in Engineering, 1 in Science and 1 in Law. The College has initially formed a system of disciplines and majors with education and art as the main subjects and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.

In 2012, the college passed the evaluation of bachelor’s degree granting units and bachelor’s degree authorizing majors in Yunnan Province, and passed the “2012 Yunnan Province Higher college Teaching Level Evaluation” by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education; in 2014, the college became one of the first “pilot institutions for transforming and developing into an applied technology university” in Yunnan Province. “In 2015, the university passed the “Assessment on Teaching Conditions, Levels and Disciplines of Private Undergraduate Colleges (including Independent Colleges)” by Yunnan Provincial Department of Education, with the conclusion of A. In 2016, the university was listed as one of the “Private Undergraduate Colleges with Advantages and Features in Yunnan Province In 2016, it was listed as one of the “Private Undergraduate Colleges with Advantages and Features in Yunnan Province”, and in the same year, the discipline of “Business Administration” was listed as one of the “First-class Disciplines in Yunnan Universities (Class B Plateau Discipline)” construction projects. From 2008 to 2017, the university won the first prize of “Employment and Entrepreneurship Target Responsibility Assessment” in Yunnan Province for ten consecutive years. In 2018, it was awarded the “Excellent University in Employment and Entrepreneurship Target Responsibility Assessment” in Yunnan Province. In 2019, the faculty and staff branch of the College of Economics and Management was approved by the Ministry of Education as the “National Model Branch of Party Building Work”. The College has been ranked as one of the top ten independent colleges in China by the Alumni Association for many years, and ranked second for five consecutive years from 2017 to 2021; the College was ranked second in Class III by the Alumni Association for China’s private universities in 2022. The College has been awarded “Comprehensive Influential Independent College” and “International Influential Business college” by QQ.com, Phoenix.com and other media for many times.

The college has one first-class discipline in Yunnan Province, one provincial key cultivation discipline, two “first-class” professional construction points in Yunnan Province, five C-level majors in Yunnan Province, three specialties in Yunnan Province, one provincial “Excellence in Management Talent Training Program”, and one “Key Professional Group for Supporting Industrial Upgrading” in Yunnan Province. 1 construction project of “key professional group for supporting industrial upgrading”; 2 construction projects of “improving professional service capacity of industry”; 1 pilot college of innovation and entrepreneurship in Yunnan Province; 1 experimental zone for innovation of high-quality applied talents training mode; 2 science and technology innovation teams in Yunnan Province; 2 provincial teaching teams 2 teaching teams at provincial level; 2 academic workstations at provincial level; 3 teaching masters in Yunnan Province; 1 talent training base for orchestra teachers in Yunnan Province; 207 university-enterprise cooperation units and 10 on-campus internship training centres; 18 provincial education and teaching reform research projects; and 26 “University-Industry Cooperation and Collaborative Education” projects of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education. In 2009 and 2017, the College was awarded the second prize of Yunnan Province Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award.

The College adheres to the orientation of application-oriented collegeing, the development strategy of “application-oriented, localization, personalization and internationalization”, takes “students as the centre”, transforms undergraduate education, implements “3+1×N The “3+1×N” talent cultivation model has been implemented to meet the development needs of students and the demand for talents for local economic and social development; it has expanded international cultural exchanges, opened the World Youth Leadership Forum and invited global dignitaries, internationally renowned scholars, university presidents, industry elites and famous artists as visiting professors to the university to broaden the international horizons of teachers and students; it has promoted international education and established cooperation with universities in the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, France and other countries. We have also established partnerships with universities in the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, France and other countries to meet students’ high-level personalised needs and help them to pursue overseas studies and get in touch with world-renowned universities.

Standing at the starting point of a new era, the College will continue to be committed to the vision of “two best” universities and provide quality and selective education and services for the happiness of students.