Founded in 1919, Nankai University has 22 academic colleges and offers 73 undergraduate specialties, 208 master's programmes, 122 doctoral programmes and 21 postdoctoral research stations. It has nearly 23,000 students, including some 12,500 undergraduate students, 7,000 master's candidates, 3,000 doctoral candidates, 2,500 foreign students, 6,000 part-time adult students and 12,500 students on distance education programmes.