安徽大学是国家“双一流”建设高校，安徽省人民政府与教育部共建高校，安徽省属重点综合性大学。学校坐落于安徽省省会合肥市，前身是1928年创建于安庆市的省立安徽大学，1958年以合肥大学、原安徽大学物理系为基础重建，同年9月16日毛泽东主席亲笔题写校名。

Anhui University is a national "Double First-Class" construction university, a university jointly built by the People's Government of Anhui Province and the Ministry of Education, and a key comprehensive university in Anhui Province. Located in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, the university was formerly known as the Provincial Anhui University founded in Anqing in 1928. It was re-established in 1958 on the basis of Hefei University and the Department of Physics of the original Anhui University, and on September 16 of the same year, Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the school name in his own handwriting.

学校学科门类齐全，涵盖理学、工学、文学、历史学、哲学、经济学、法学、管理学、教育学、艺术学等10大门类，拥有2个国家重点学科，18个省级重点学科；有1个国家重点实验室，1个国家地方联合工程研究中心，2个国家地方联合工程实验室，1个教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地等一批国家级和省部级科研平台。

The university has a complete range of disciplines, covering 10 categories including science, engineering, literature, history, philosophy, economics, law, management, education, and art. It has 2 national key disciplines and 18 provincial key disciplines; there is 1 national key laboratory, 1 national-local joint engineering research center, 2 national-local joint engineering laboratories, 1 key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education and a number of national and provincial scientific research platforms.

学校坚持立德树人根本任务，着力培养高素质创新型人才，已为国家和地方培养了30余万名优秀毕业生，他们在各行各业建功立业，为国家发展和安徽现代化建设作出了重要贡献。学校注重国际交流与合作，与国外100多所高校和科研机构建立了友好合作关系，开展多层次、宽领域的国际合作与交流。

Adhering to the fundamental task of cultivating virtues and talents, the university strives to cultivate high-quality innovative talents, and has trained more than 300,000 outstanding graduates for the country and local areas. They have made contributions in all walks of life and made important contributions to national development and Anhui's modernization drive. The university attaches importance to international exchanges and cooperation, has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 100 foreign universities and scientific research institutions, and carries out multi-level and wide-ranging international cooperation and exchanges.