Jishou University ranks 299th in China in the 2022 Softech China Best Universities Ranking.
Jishou University ranks 246th in China in the 2022 Alumni China University Rankings.
Jishou University, abbreviated as "JISHOU". The university operates across the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Zhangjiajie City. It is a university established by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Hunan Provincial People's Government, a high-level construction university in Hunan Province, and a top-ranking academic discipline construction university in Hunan Province.
School was founded in April 1958, 1978, resumed its promotion as a provincial comprehensive university, the same year, Xiangya Medical College of Central South University Xiangxi branch into Jishou University to form the Department of Medicine, 2002, Wuling Higher Specialized School merged into the Jishou University to become the Jishou University Zhangjiajie Campus.
As of June 2022, the university covers a total area of more than 2,900 acres, with a building area of nearly 600,000 square meters, a total value of 330 million yuan of teaching, scientific and research instruments and equipment, and more than 6 million volumes of various types of paper and electronic literature; 22 teaching colleges and universities, with 41 first-level disciplines, 78 undergraduate majors, and more than 30,000 students of all kinds of students enrolled in undergraduate, master's degree, and PhD students, international students***20,000 people.