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, Pukou and Suzhou with 38,267 full-time students, among whom 13,244 are undergraduate students, 16,832 graduate students, and 3069 international students, studying in 31 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.
According to the Essential Science Indicators, 17 academic disciplines at NJU are ranked in the top 1% worldwide, making her one of the leading comprehensive universities in China. NJU was ranked 120th and 26th respectively in the QS World University Rankings 2019/2020 and the QS Asian University Rankings 2019/2020. In 2020, NJU was ranked 7th in the Global Nature Index among global 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 2,144 faculty members, there are 29 Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 members 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 128 Chair Professors and Distinguished Visiting Professors of the “Chang Jiang Scholars Program”, 135 winners of “National Distinguished Young Scientists Award”.
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.
