Tibetan Nationality College

The Tibetan University for Nationalities (Chinese: Xizang Minzu Xueyuan西藏 民族 学院; English: Tibet Institute for Nationalities), occasionally also called the Tibetan University for National Minorities or Tibetan Institute for Nationalities , was the first university in Tibet.

It was founded in 1958. The main campus is located in Xianyang , Shaanxi Province ; an earlier branch was in Nyingchi . In 1978 the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region decided not to move the college to Tibet.

The college was opened in 1958 as the Tibet Public School ( Xizang gongxue西藏 公 学); In 1965 it was given its current name.

literature

• Aiming Zhou: Tibetan education

Web links

• Official website (English)
• unescobkk.org: The Development of Higher Education in Tibet: From UNESCO Perspective (Draft) (PDF; 105 kB)

See also

• List of universities in the People's Republic of China

Footnotes

1. ↑ china.org.cn: 50 Years of Education in Tibet - found on July 8, 2010
2. ↑ Preferred development of pedagogical training - found on July 8, 2010

Coordinates: 34 ° 20 '48.4 "  N , 108 ° 43' 57.4"  E