Anhui University was founded in 1928 in Anqing. It then moved to Hefei in 1956 and given its current name in 1958.
It has been a member of China¡¯s Project 211 since it launched in 1996.
It operates from a 1,100 acre campus with three other campuses. Students can apply to courses acros 32 schools.
Its main international partners are Leibniz University, Hannover with which it runs a joint research centre in materials science, and the University of Adelaide.