Among its prominent leaders was Du Zhongyuan, who was executed in 1943 on suspicion of being subversive.

It is a national key comprehensive university with students from various ethnic groups.

Xinjiang University comprises fourteen schools, which have courses and branches of study ranging from science, engineering, law and economics to management, the arts and history.

[8] The Nature Index ranked XJU among the top 487 leading universities globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science based on the institution output from 1 May 2023 - 30 April 2024.

[13] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (M.P.C.

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