📖 About the university

Xinjiang Second Medical University is a full-time public undergraduate university under the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located on Shengli Road in the oil city of Karamay in northern Xinjiang. Its predecessor, the Hobo College of Xinjiang Medical University, was founded in 2003 as an independent college; from 2012 it operated under a cooperative arrangement between Xinjiang Medical University and the city of Karamay, was fully relocated to Karamay by 2015, and in January 2021 was approved by the Ministry of Education to convert into an independent public university under its present name. The university concentrates on the medical sciences, with coordinated development of management and engineering, and offers fifteen undergraduate programmes including clinical medicine, stomatology, integrated Chinese and Western clinical medicine, anesthesiology, nursing, pharmacy, medical imaging technology, preventive medicine, rehabilitation therapy and intelligent medical engineering. Set on a campus of more than eleven hundred mu with around 150 specialised laboratories and a library of over 400,000 volumes, it serves as an important base for training doctors, nurses and health professionals for Karamay and the wider northern Xinjiang region. As one of the newest public medical universities in the country, it plays a strategic role in strengthening healthcare and medical education in western China.

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🌆 About Karamay

Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, whose name means "black oil" in Uyghur, reflecting its origins as one of China's first great oilfields. Developed from the desert in the 1950s, it is a modern, planned petroleum city of around half a million people, orderly and prosperous, with the Karamay River running through green landscaped districts. The climate is harshly continental, with very hot, dry summers and long, cold winters, set against the surrounding Gurbantunggut Desert and dramatic wind-eroded Yardang landforms nearby. Cleaner and wealthier than many regional cities, it offers modern amenities, distinctive Uyghur and Central Asian food, and a safe, quiet environment. It is linked by air and rail to the regional capital Urumqi, making it accessible despite its remote setting.

💰 Fees & costs

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🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.