Nanjing University of Technology

The history of Nanjing University of Technology can be traced back to the Sanjiang Normal School founded in 1902. In 2001, it was established by the merger of the former Nanjing University of Chemical Technology and the former Nanjing Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering. It is one of the first universities selected for the national "Higher Education Innovation Capacity Improvement Plan" (2011 Plan), a Class A construction university in the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan, a key construction university in Jiangsu Province, a comprehensive reform pilot university in Jiangsu Province, a pilot university for talent-strengthening schools in Jiangsu Province, the first national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a national university practice-based innovation and entrepreneurship base, the first pilot university for the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Training Program, a pilot university for comprehensive reform of professional degree graduate education, a national defense education specialty school of the Ministry of Education, and a pilot university for implementing the "30 Articles on Science and Technology Innovation Reform" in Jiangsu Province. The school adheres to the school motto of "Mingde, Houxue, Shenjian, and Dingxing", takes the development goal of building a first-class domestic and internationally renowned entrepreneurial university, insists on running a university rooted in China, and has formed a distinctive feature of collaborative innovation between industry, academia, and research.

The school has 11 academic departments, 28 colleges, and more than 38,000 students of various types. It has 1 national first-level key discipline, 1 national key discipline cultivation and construction point of Jiangsu Province's first-level discipline, 2 national key discipline cultivation and construction points of Jiangsu universities, 4 first-phase projects, 6 second-phase projects, and 6 third-phase projects of Jiangsu universities' advantageous disciplines, 2 Jiangsu Province key disciplines in the "13th Five-Year Plan", 8 Jiangsu Province key disciplines in the "14th Five-Year Plan", 7 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 9 first-level discipline doctoral degree awarding points, 10 self-set second-level discipline doctoral degree awarding points, 29 first-level discipline master's degree awarding points, 20 self-set second-level discipline master's degree awarding points, 18 master's professional degree awarding points, 101 undergraduate majors, across 9 disciplines of engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law, medicine, art, and education. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation by the Center for the Development of Degree and Graduate Education of the Ministry of Education, our chemical engineering and technology disciplines received an A grade, and materials science and engineering and safety science and engineering disciplines received a B+ grade, among which chemical engineering and technology and materials science and engineering ranked first in the province. The school entered the top 1‰ in the world in the ESI comprehensive ranking in September 2021, and ranked 55th among universities in mainland China in March 2022. Five disciplines, including chemistry, materials science, engineering, biology and biochemistry, and environmental science and ecology, entered the top 1% of ESI globally, among which chemistry and materials science entered the top 1‰ of ESI globally. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 ranked 57th among universities in mainland China; in March 2022, the Nature Index ranked 38th among universities in mainland China; and the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2021 ranked 54th among universities in mainland China.

The school currently has more than 3,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1,500 senior professionals, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 members of the 7th State Council Discipline Evaluation Group, 1 member of the 8th State Council Discipline Evaluation Group, 163 national talents, 15 national high-level talent teams, 276 provincial and ministerial key high-level talents, and 36 provincial and ministerial key high-level teams.

The school insists on educating people for the party and cultivating talents for the country. It has won one national advanced grassroots party organization commended by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The number of "benchmark colleges and departments" and "model branches" and the number of cultivation and creation of national party building work ranks first among provincial universities. Advanced models such as the first batch of Huang Danian-style teacher teams in national universities have emerged. The school strengthens the construction of "new engineering", and 23 engineering majors have passed the engineering education professional certification or the professional evaluation of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, entering the "first echelon" of global engineering education. The school focuses on the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents, builds the "2011 College" of the college system, and builds "talent classes" with relevant institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since the 11th Five-Year Plan, the school has won 4 second prizes for national teaching achievements, 4 special prizes for provincial teaching achievements, 9 first prizes, and 17 second prizes. There are 2 national teaching teams, 2 national ideological and political teaching teachers and teams, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 24 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 7 national characteristic professional construction sites, 2 pilot comprehensive reform projects of the Ministry of Education, 7 pilot projects of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, 2 national ideological and political demonstration courses, 9 national first-class undergraduate courses, 3 national quality courses, 2 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 2 national quality resource sharing courses, 1 national excellent textbook (higher education category) of the National Textbook Construction Award, 1 national quality textbook, and the 12th Five-Year Plan National 8 national-level planning textbooks, 2 first-batch excellent textbooks for postgraduates in Jiangsu Province, 2 Jiangsu Province course ideological and political demonstration majors, 27 first-class undergraduate major construction sites in Jiangsu Province, 5 first-phase projects of Jiangsu University brand major construction project, 8 Jiangsu Province brand majors, 10 Jiangsu Province characteristic majors, 12 Jiangsu Province key majors (covering 30 majors), 2 pilot majors of Jiangsu Province Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program (Software), 18 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 Jiangsu Province course ideological and political construction demonstration courses, 41 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 7 Jiangsu Province undergraduate excellent cultivation textbooks, and 68 provincial key project construction textbooks. In 2006, the school won the excellent grade of undergraduate teaching work level evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education, and successfully passed the undergraduate teaching work review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 2016. In 2017, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of Sino-US Youth Maker Exchange Center. Over the years, the school has trained more than 20 provincial and ministerial leaders, more than 30 academicians of the two academies, and more than 100 leaders of central enterprises and listed companies, and has provided a large number of high-quality talents for the society.

The school has strong scientific research strength, with 7 national scientific research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Materials Chemical Engineering, the National International Joint Research Center for Flexible Electronic Materials and Devices, the National Biochemical Engineering Technology Research Center, the National Special Separation Membrane Engineering Technology Research Center, the National Heat Pipe Technology Research and Promotion Center, the National University Science and Technology Park, and the Jiangsu Advanced Biological and Chemical Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, 28 provincial and ministerial research centers, and 29 provincial and ministerial key laboratories. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the school's scientific research projects and achievements have won more than 500 awards at all levels and types, including 6 second prizes of the National Technological Invention Award, 6 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 second prize of the National Natural Science Award, and 1 of the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in Chinese Higher Education Institutions" of the Ministry of Education. Currently, 7 people have won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Award. There are 6 "Young and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents in the Innovation Talent Promotion Plan" of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 "Innovation Team in Key Fields of the Innovation Talent Promotion Plan", and 1 rolling support from the Ministry of Education's "Innovation Team Development Plan".

The school attaches importance to the transformation of scientific research results, actively connects the innovation chain with the industrial chain, and promotes in-depth cooperation between industry, academia and research. Nanjing Tech University Science Park is a national university science park, and Nanjing Tech University Technology Transfer Center is a national technology transfer demonstration institution. It has a national intellectual property training (Jiangsu) base. The school promotes the integration of school and local government, industry and education, and has established dozens of new R&D institutions, industrial research institutes and industrial colleges in cooperation with local governments. There is currently one national modern industrial college and two provincial key industrial colleges. The school strengthens school-enterprise cooperation and carries out strategic cooperation with central enterprises and industry leading enterprises such as China Construction Co., Ltd., China Petrochemical Corporation, ZTE Corporation, and China Resources Co., Ltd. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", it has undertaken more than 10,000 projects of various levels and types, including national key R&D plan projects, national "973" plan projects, "863" plan projects, national science and technology support plan projects, and National Natural Science Foundation projects, with a science and technology fund of nearly 7 billion yuan, and has achieved a number of high-level research results, which have made positive contributions to related industries, Jiangsu local economic construction and social development.

The school implemented a global expansion strategy and became one of the first 22 universities to pass the certification for studying in China; it has established cooperative relations with more than 100 overseas universities and research institutions in 23 countries and regions, including the "National International Joint Research Center for Flexible Electronic Materials and Devices" and the "Ministry of Education Flexible Electronics International Cooperation Joint Laboratory" with world-renowned universities such as Imperial College London, Moscow State University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; the "Flexible Electronics Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Base" was selected into the national "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Plan"; it co-established the "Confucius Institute" with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and the University of Zaragoza in Spain, and is a recipient of the "Confucius Institute Scholarship"; it cooperated with the University of Burgundy in France to hold a Sino-foreign joint master's degree in control science and engineering (machine vision) education Cooperate with Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland to hold 4 "3+1" undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education programs in mechanical engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, electronic information engineering and civil engineering, among which the mechanical engineering and pharmaceutical engineering programs were selected as high-level demonstration construction projects of Sino-foreign cooperative education in Jiangsu universities; cooperate with the University of Queensland in Australia to hold a "2+2" undergraduate joint training program in electrical engineering and automation, data science and big data technology, and cooperate with Macquarie University in Australia to hold a "2+2" undergraduate joint training program in accounting; carry out student exchange programs with well-known universities such as the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the University of California, Davis, the University of California, the University of Cardiff, the National University of Singapore, etc.; promote international industry-university-research cooperation. There are nearly 50 foreign experts from more than 10 countries, including winners of the Chinese Government Friendship Award, and more than 700 overseas students with academic qualifications from all over the world.

Looking ahead, the school will thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, firmly grasp the eternal theme of high-quality development, focus on the construction of high-level universities and the creation of first-class disciplines, consolidate the foundation and strengthen the source, collaborate and innovate, and strive to build a first-class domestic and internationally renowned entrepreneurial university.

(Data statistics until March 2022)