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Yunnan University

Kunming · Comprehensive

Top tierDouble First-ClassProject 211

Top tier — Priority coverage — programs, tuition and English-taught options actively maintained; a full international admission profile is shown where available.

Kunming

Regional hub Metro Est. budget CNY 2,000–3,800 (USD 280–530) / month incl. dorm or shared flat

The "Spring City" — mild year-round at 1,900 m — and China's land gateway to South and Southeast Asia: the China–Laos railway departs Kunming for Vientiane. Yunnan University, Kunming University of Science and Technology and Kunming Medical University (a long-standing MBBS base) host one of the country's most diverse international student bodies.

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Scholarships you can apply for

Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) – Type B (University Track) · Full Yunnan Provincial Government Scholarship for International Students · Partial

Academic strengths

China’s official discipline evaluation (MOE Degree Centre, 4th round, 2017): A+ ≈ top 2%, A ≈ top 2–5%. Methodology

Double First-Class disciplineEvaluation
Ethnology A+
Ecology A-
All evaluated disciplines (30)
  • Ethnology A+
  • Ecology A-
  • Political Science B+
  • Biology B+
  • Theoretical Economics B
  • Chinese History B
  • Mathematics B
  • Chemistry B
  • Statistics B
  • Business Administration B
  • Information Management B
  • Law B-
  • Marxist Theory B-
  • Chinese Language & Literature B-
  • Computer Science B-
  • Software Engineering B-
  • Sociology C+
  • World History C+
  • Physics C+
  • Systems Science C+
  • Information & Communications Engineering C+
  • Public Administration C+
  • Philosophy C
  • Applied Economics C
  • Education C
  • Foreign Languages & Literatures C-
  • Journalism C-
  • Geography C-
  • Art Theory C-
  • Fine Arts C-

What its badges mean

Double First-Class

China’s elite university initiative (147 universities designated in the 2022 MOE list)

Project 211

112 universities chosen in the 1990s for key national investment

Data sources: university international-admission pages (linked above), MOE Double First-Class list (2022), MOE Degree Centre discipline evaluation (2017). Figures marked as typical ranges are editorial estimates, dated — per-source verification in progress — full data notes.