There is only one Huaqiao University, which is divided into two campuses: Quanzhou and Xiamen. The main campus is in Quanzhou.

Huaqiao University has two independent colleges: Huaqiao University Fujian Conservatory of Music (in Fuzhou) and Huaqiao University Xiamen Institute of Technology (in Jimei District, Xiamen).

There is a Yanjing Overseas Chinese Vocational College in Beijing, which is a private college and is now a college directly affiliated with Capital University of Economics and Business.

The headquarters of Huaqiao University is located in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. It has two campuses in Quanzhou City and Xiamen City, Nanyang College in Singapore, an overseas Chinese education base in Barcelona, ??and Bangkok, There are Confucius Institutes in Phuket, Vienna and other places, and there are 77 offices or enrollment agencies on five continents around the world.

As of December 2017, the school covers a total area of ??2.559 million square meters, with a construction area of ??1.114 million square meters. It has 28 colleges and 57 national, provincial and ministerial-level teaching and research platforms. It has 1 key discipline, 40 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, and 3 disciplines have entered the top 1 of ESI global rankings.