Founded in 1902, Nanjing University (NJU) enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad，whose history has been closely connected with the mission of the nation and the needs of society. The vision of NJU is to develop a world-class comprehensive, research-intensive and internationalized higher learning institution with top faculty, students and research.
Presently, NJU consists of three campuses of Gulou, Xianlin, and Pukou with 33,145 full-time students, among whom 13,244 are undergraduate students, 16,832 graduate students, and 3069 international students, studying in 29 scho
Founded in 1902, Nanjing University (NJU) enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad，whose history has been closely connected with the mission of the nation and the needs of society. The vision of NJU is to develop a world-class comprehensive, research-intensive and internationalized higher learning institution with top faculty, students and research.
Presently, NJU consists of three campuses of Gulou, Xianlin, and Pukou with 33,145 full-time students, among whom 13,244 are undergraduate students, 16,832 graduate students, and 3069 international students, studying in 29 schools and departments. NJU is listed as one of the first group of high level universities in the national “Project 211” and “Project 985”, which provide intensive support from the central government. As a member of the China 9 League (C9), NJU boasts a strong team of faculty in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine and engineering.
NJU has acquired more than 800 national, provincial and ministerial awards for research. In recent years, NJU has undertaken dozens of state key projects. In addition, NJU ranks top among Chinese universities in terms of quality and quantity of research papers listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI). The number of SCI publications of NJU was ranked 1st among Chinese universities for 7 years since 1992, and had the highest number of citations of SCI papers for 8 years since 1992.
NJU has a good number of national innovative research bases. Now it has 7 State Key Laboratories, 1 National Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center, 1 National Resource Center for Mutant Mice, 8 Key Laboratories under Ministry of Education, and 2 National 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers.
According to the Essential Science Indicators, 16 academic disciplines at NJU are ranked in the top 1% worldwide, making her one of the leading comprehensive universities in China. NJU was ranked 115th and 23th respectively in the QS World University Rankings 2016/2017 and the QS Asian University Rankings 2016/2017. In 2017, NJU was ranked 12th in the Global Nature Index among global universities and 2nd among Chinese universities.
In her over 100 years of history, NJU has cultivated a great number of prominent and learned figures, and thus has greatly contributed to the nation’s revitalization and development. Many famous scientists and scholars have studied or worked here. Among more than 4,000 faculty members, there are 28 Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4members of the Third World Academy of Sciences, 1 Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and 1 fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada. In addition, there are 122 Chair Professors and Distinguished Visiting Professors of the “Chang Jiang Scholars Program”, 113 winners of “National Distinguished Young Scientists Award”, 30 overseas scholars under the “National Thousand Talents Plan”, and 113 awardees of the “National Youth Thousand Talents Plan”.
Since the founding of the university in the early 20th century, NJU has been among the most active universities in carrying out international communication and cooperation and has built close relationship with many first-class universities and research institutes around the world. One example is the 30-year-long Center for Chinese and American Studies jointly administered by Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins University, China’s earliest long-term international cooperation program in higher education since the Reform and Opening-up. The center has fostered many pillar scholars for cultural communication between China and America, exerting enormous influence at home and abroad. In today’s new historical conditions, NJU is vigorously promoting international communication and cooperation in multiple fields and through multiple channels, raising its teaching to the international standards in every aspect.
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