Tarim University is located atNo. 1 188 Junken Avenue, Alar City, a county-level administrative unit directly under the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The current principal is Zhang Chuanhui, and the campus covers an area of 26 13 mu.

Tarim University is a comprehensive university with the characteristics of life science and the coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, literature, management, law, economics, teaching, art and history, with a construction area of 630,000 square meters. It enrolls students for 3 1 provinces and regions nationwide, with more than 0.5 million full-time students/kloc-0, of which ethnic minority students account for 27%.

At present, there are 1 1 colleges (College of Plant Science, College of Animal Science, College of Life Sciences, College of Water Conservancy and Architecture Engineering, College of Mechanical Electrification Engineering, College of Information Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of Humanities, College of History and Philosophy, College of Continuing Education and College of Vocational Technology) and 58 undergraduate majors.