Nanjing Normal University
One of the national key universities under `Project 211`, Nanjing Normal University, traced back to `Sanjiang Normal Institute` established in 1902, claims `Suiyuan campus`, which is renowned as `The Most Beautiful Campus in the East`, `Xianlin campus` and `Zijin campus` with an area of more than 200 hectares. NNU has 25 schools and offers 80 undergraduate programs, 199 graduate programs and 130 doctoral programs in humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, and art. There are 25,000 full-time students now. NNU, National Base for Teaching Chinese for Foreigners, is one of the earliest universities to open up to the world in China. International students have made their way to NNU since 1965. The university accepted 1600 international students from 123 counties in 2011. NNU has set up 3 Confucius Colleges overseas and has established cooperative relationships with 145 universities in 28 countries and regions.
At present, NNU has 6 national key disciplines, 3 national key cultivated disciplines, 10 provincial priority disciplines, 5 provincial first-level and national key cultivated disciplines, 23 provincial first-level key disciplines. There are 7 programs ranking among the top ten in China, and 5 programs listed among top 1% of ESI. NNU offers 23 doctoral degree programs of first-level disciplines and other 3 doctoral degree programs of second-level disciplines which are not included above, 37 master’s degree programs of first-level disciplines and 10 master’s degree programs of second-level disciplines which are not included above, 1 professional doctoral degree programs, 18 professional master degree programs, 77 undergraduate’s programs and 22 post-doctoral research centers. It offers a diverse curriculum including such subjects as philosophy, economics, law, education, humanities, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, arts, etc.
Foundation year:1902
Short name:NNU
Type:Public
Students:32290
Faculty:1900
Faculty/Students Ratio:17:1
Region:Asia
Location:Nanjing
