Nangchang University (NCU) is a comprehensive university listed among the "World First-class Disciplines" and the national "Double First-Class" Initiative of China. It is the only "211 Project" national key university in Jiangxi Province which is co-constructed by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Jiangxi Provincial Government. And it is one of the high-level universities of Jiangxi Province in the overall construction project of universities in China. Located in Nanchang, the City of Hero, NCU consists of 4 campuses, which are Qianhu main campus, Qingshan-Hu, Dong-Hu and Poyang-Hu campuses. Among them, the Qianhu main campus has an area of more than 228 hectares and building area of 1.5 million square meters.

NCU hosts five major faculties which are: Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology (Division I), Faculty of Science & Technology (Division II), and Faculty of Medicine. It has 126 undergraduate programs with 12 subjects categories, 3 national key disciplines, 15 first-level subjects with doctor's degree authorization, 47 first-level subjects with master's degree authorization, 1 kind of doctor's professional degree authorization and 29 kinds of master's professional degree authorization and 11 postdoctoral scientific research stations. NCU has five affiliated hospitals, and 9 national clinical key specialist disciplines. The subjects of Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Agricultural Sciences (mainly Food Science and Engineering), Engineering and Materials Science, Pharmacology, Virology and other six majors rank among the first 1% of ESI in the world, in which the subjects of Agricultural Sciences (mainly Food Science and Engineering) rank among the first 1.79‰, Clinical Medicine rank among the first 3.7‰ and Chemistry rank among the first 4.8‰ of ESI in the world. In the national fourth-round of subject overall level assessment, the subject of Food Science and Engineering ranks the 3rd. The main campus of NCU has 4,362 staff members (2,524 are full-time teachers, and 1,461 of them have titles of professors and associate professors). Among them, there are 1 Academician of CAS, 4 Dual-Employed Academicians.

NCU is the Member of the China-Central Eastern European Countries Higher Education Institutions Consortium, one of the Founding Universities South Asia-Southeast Asia University Association, the Member of the Eurasia-Pacific UNINET, a Standing Council Unit of China Education Association for International Exchange, the member of Yangtze Volga University Alliance, the demonstration base of China Ministry of Education for studying in China, the National Advanced Internet-based Test Site of HSK, and a Strategic Partner of Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange(CSCSE). NCU attaches great importance to international exchange and cooperation. It has maintained stable exchanges and cooperative relationships with about 170 universities and research institutions in over 40 countries and regions. We have established the Sino-Canada Joint Laboratory of Food Science and Technology (Nanchang), the International Science and Technology Cooperation Base on Food Safety, the International Food Innovation Research Institute, the International Materials Innovation Research Institute, and the first Russian language center in Jiangxi Province with Russian partners. NCU has co-established 4 Confucius Institutes and 2 Confucius Classrooms respectively in France, Spain and Indonesia, and established a Chinese Language Research Center in Russia. With enlarging international cooperation and exchange, more than 4,000 students of NCU have joined international exchange programs to study overseas.