Anhui University, a key comprehensive provincial institution of higher education, is located in Hefei, the beautiful capital city of Anhui Province. Founded in 1928 in Anqing and moved to Hefei in 1956, Anhui University is now a well-developed higher education institution supported by the government under the state Project 211.Currently, the university comprises four campuses and one hi-tech park, covering a total of 3200 mu (213.3 hectares). Additionally,it is equipped with instruments and equipment worth CNY 400 million, and the university library holds a collection of over 3.2 million books. The university consists of 26 schools, offering 77 undergraduate majors, 148 master's degree programs, 17 specialized master's degree programs, and 48 Ph.D. programs. Besides, it has 8 postdoctoral scientific research stations, 2 state key disciplines and 25 provincial key disciplines. At present, the university has about 2500 staff, among whom over 1500 are teaching faculty and over 800 hold professor, associate professor or other equivalent professional titles. And students total over 26000, among whom 5597 are graduate students,20235 are undergraduate students, and 1103 junior college students.

The university has been always attaching great importance to international exchange and cooperation. By far it boasts 104 sister universities/institutions worldwide, and it has jointly with some sister universities/institutions established "Korean LanguageTraining Center", "English Language Center", "Japanese Language Center", "St.Thomas Education College", "Latin America Culture Research Center". Besides,the 3+1 and 4+1 programs with the University of Greenwich (UK)progress well, and the 2+2 program with the University of Manchester (UK) and IowaState University (USA) are also being conducted respectively. Moreover, it is authorized by the Ministry of Education to admit international students under Chinese Government Scholarship Programs, and was designated by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council as an overseas Chinese Language Education Base in 2000. Till now, it has entered the national program of jointly establishing Confucius Institutions in Chile, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.