Over time NUIST’s core values have been defined by the traditions of “hard-working and plain-living, diligence and truth-seeking” and the motto of “promotion of virtue, investigation of nature, cultivation of self and construction of society”. About 80,000 students have so far graduated from the university. Many alumni have become well-known scientists, scholars and senior management staff home and abroad. Among them, there are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Royal Academy of Sciences, high
Over time NUIST’s core values have been defined by the traditions of “hard-working and plain-living, diligence and truth-seeking” and the motto of “promotion of virtue, investigation of nature, cultivation of self and construction of society”. About 80,000 students have so far graduated from the university. Many alumni have become well-known scientists, scholars and senior management staff home and abroad. Among them, there are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Royal Academy of Sciences, high-ranking leaders in the government and senior officers of WMO. Currently, NUIST has over 30,000 undergraduates, more than 3,900 postgraduates and over 1,500 full-time teachers. There are more than 60 talents including Academicians, Distinguished Young Scholars, experts of the “One Thousand Talent Project” and “National Talents Project”, Distinguished Professors of Jiangsu Province, Individual Experts of Programs of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Jiangsu Province, as well as 10 outstanding teams including the National Teaching Team, the Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Expert Teams of Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Jiangsu Province, etc. Almost 78% of the full-time teachers have doctor’s degrees and 60% of them have experiences of studying or working abroad. NUIST consists of 23 schools and colleges including School of Atmospheric Science, School of Applied Meteorology, etc. as well as over 20 provincial and ministerial scientific research institutions including the Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, the Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, the first batch of international joint laboratory approved by MOE, i.e. the International Joint Laboratory on Climate and Environmental Change, the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters of MOE, the Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics and Atmospheric Environment Meteorological Disaster of the CMA, the China Institute of Manufacturing Industry Development as well as the Academic Institute of Climate Change and Public Policy, etc.
NUIST has a batch of key disciplines in both state and provincial levels and some brand and characteristic majors in China and Jiangsu Province. There are now 53 undergraduate majors covering the 8 main subject categories, namely science, engineering, management, literature, economics, law, agriculture and art. The master and doctor degree programs almost cover all the undergraduate majors. The university pays much attention to innovation education. It boasts 27 experimental teaching centers and 2 of them are listed as the national demonstrations of experimental teaching centers, i.e. the Experimental Teaching Center of Atmospheric Sciences and Environmental Meteorology and the Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center of Atmospheric Science and Meteorological Information. NUIST won the First Prize in National Teaching Achievements Award with its project of “Establishment and Practice of Cultivation Mode of Macro Meteorology Talents under the Joint Construction System”. NUIST students won the Gold Award of the First National Internet+ Contest of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for College Students, the only Special Award in National Mathematical Modeling Contest--“Higher Education Press Cup”, the First Prize in National University Students “Challenge Cup” Competition, the First Prize in the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, the Grand Prize of National Robot Competition, etc. NUIST Male Volleyball Team won the Champion in the 2015-2016 Volleyball League of Chinese Universities.
NUIST has established cooperative relationship with 48 famous overseas universities and colleges from 15 different countries including the Yale University, the University of Wisconsin, etc. NUIST set up the Confucius Institute at the College of the Bahamas and was admitted to the programs of Chinese Government Scholarship, the Confucius Institute Scholarship, Jasmine Jiangsu Provincial Government Scholarship and Nanjing Municipal Government Scholarship. In 2017, there were 1533 international students from 120 countries studying at NUIST. To date, the WMO Regional Training Centre Nanjing at NUIST has trained over 3300 senior meteorological technical and managerial personnel for 154 countries and regions and become the world’s largest training center with a top quality of WMO.
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