Nantong University
南通大学

Why Study at Nantong University, China

Nantong University is a comprehensive university with a history of 100 years. It provides a complete range of disciplines including literature, science, engineering, medicine, pedagogy, economics, law, history, and administration. Nantong University is a university with great traditions. A history of nearly one hundred years has endowed it with historical and cultural heritages. After it merger in 2004, the university has been developing with vigor and vitality. Now it is striding forward to a more splendid future. Close to Shanghai and located in Nantong, a beautiful coastal city with rich cultural heritage and plenty of humane scenery, Nantong University is a good place for international students to obtain knowledge and skills. There are c more than 35,000 full-time students, including around 2000 students studying for Doctor’s degree and Master’s degree and more than 400 international students.

(1) History

Nantong University was established in 1912. On May18, 2004 with the amalgamation of Nantong Medical College, Nantong Institute of Technology and Nantong Teachers College, and the new Nantong University was established. Nantong Medical College, stemmed from a private Medical Institute of Nantong, was founded in 1912 by Zhang Jian and his brother Zhang Cha. It was one of the earliest medical colleges in China. Nantong Institute of Technology, the first textile college in China, developed from Nantong Textile Training School set in 1912. Nantong Teachers College was amalgamated from the former Nantong Teachers College and Nantong Education College in 1999.

(2) Discipline and programs

Nantong University provides a complete range of disciplines including literature, science, engineering, medicine, pedagogy, economics, law, history, and administration. It is composed of twenty-five schools, having in all 99 undergraduate programs, 117 master’s programs and 25 doctoral degree programs. The university is honored with the national key disciplines, provincial key disciplines, provincial key constructing disciplines, provincial service platform for public technology, provincial engineering center, provincial key medical discipline etc. The university presently has more than 35,000 full-time students, including around 2000 students studying for Doctor’s degree and Master’s degree and more than 400 international students.

(3) Academic facilities and scientific research 

Nantong University now has around 2,200 full-time teachers, including more than 1486 professors and associate professors. The Library of Nantong University covers about 47300m2 and has a collection of over 0.936 million. Nantong University has one provincial key laboratories Cultivate construction station of the National Key Laboratory of higher education and Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 3 provincial key laboratories, and 2 provincial public technical service platforms. Also, Nantong University has 2 provincial engineering centers, 1 collaborative innovation center of University in Jiangsu and 2 key research bases of philosophy and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu. 

(4) Great achievements

Nantong University undertakes hundreds of research items under projects including National 973 Project, 863 Project, National Science Research Fund Project and Social Science Fund. There are one item of National Science and technology major projects, and more than 350 items National Fund for natural science and Social Science. Nantong University won more than 140 items of awards of patents for invention, and many items of awards of National Technological Invention, Chinese medical achievement, National College of Science Research Excellence Award and many other different awards. There are more than 5600 academic papers were published In SCI, EI, ISTP, CSSCI and other journals at Nantong University.

(5) Communication and international cooperation

Nantong University is expanding its international academic exchange and cooperation, like faculty and student exchange programs, research cooperation programs, joint education programs and other programs, with more than 50 universities and research institutes in Britain, the USA, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea. Each year, there are 20 foreign experts working in the university.

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