School of Life Science & Technology

¡¡¡¡The School of Life Science &Technology was founded in 1949 with the name of the department of biology, and gained its present name as a result of integrating the Department of Biology and the Institute of Biological Technology. It is serving as the center for life science education, research and biotechnology development in Shanxi Province.
¡¡¡¡The School of Life Science &Technology has a tradition of excellent teaching thanks to its outstanding faculty team with diversified backgrounds and research areas in biological science and technology. The school now has two departments and five research institutes offering 3 majors offer bachelor¡¯s degree, 7 majors for master¡¯s degree and 4 majors for doctoral degree, along with a special program for post-doctoral fellows. Two key research laboratories were each designated by the Ministry of education and by Shanxi Province. Two research areas are listed in the Shanxi Province Priority Disciplines of Construction. The school has 59 faculty and 21 staff, with 566 undergraduate and 152 graduate students for master¡¯s or doctoral degrees. In recent three years, the school has attracted 100 research grants with a total of more than RMB 10 million, yielding 360 journal publications, 8 books, 4 patents and 7 projects successfully completed with peer review endorsement. Furthermore, most of those projects are applied in commercial production.

Study Programs:

Doctoral degree programs: Environmental Science; Biochemistry and molecular biology; Zoology; Botany.
Master¡¯s degree programs: Zoology; Botany; Environmental Science; Biochemistry and molecular biology; Microbiology; Aquatic Biology; Food science.
Bachelor¡¯s degree programs: Biological science; Biotechnology; Bioengineering; Food Science.
 
Contact Information
School of Life Science &Technology
Shanxi University
36 Wucheng Lu,
Taiyuan, 030006
P. R. China

Tel: (0351)7019599, 7011769
Email: skx@sxu.edu.cn