Nantong Institute of Technology

Nantong Institute of Technology is a full-time general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education of China. It was founded in 2000. At present, the school has two campuses in Nantong and Hai'an, covering an area of ​​more than 1,200 acres and a building area of ​​600,000 square meters. There are 18,000 full-time students, including the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Automotive Engineering, the School of Civil Engineering, the School of Business, the School of Computer and Information Engineering, the School of Electrical and Energy Engineering, the School of Health Medicine, the School of Media and Design, the School of Basic Teaching, the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the School of Continuing Education, with 11 secondary colleges and 38 undergraduate majors.

Nantong is located in the southeast of Jiangsu, on the northern wing of the Yangtze River Delta. It is one of the first 14 coastal cities in China to open to the outside world. It is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east and the Yangtze River in the south. It is close to the lights of Shanghai and Suzhou. It borders Taizhou and Yancheng in the west and north. It is known as the "Northern Shanghai" because it is located at the junction of the river and the sea and strangles the throat of the north and the south. Nantong combines the advantages of the "Golden Coast" and the "Golden Waterway" and is a famous historical and cultural city in China.

The main campus of Nantong Institute of Technology is located in the beautiful and economically developed urban area of ​​Nantong. The school is 7 kilometers away from Nantong Railway Station, 17 kilometers away from Nantong Airport, and about 8 kilometers away from Nantong West High-speed Railway Station (about 40 minutes by high-speed rail to Shanghai Hongqiao Hub), with very convenient transportation. The school is adjacent to large commercial complexes such as Wanda Plaza, Auchan, China Resources Suguo, Sam's Club, Decathlon, etc., and has complete living facilities. The new campus-Hai'an Campus is located in the national Hai'an Economic and Technological Development Zone, about 45 minutes' drive from the main campus. Our school's modern campus, teaching conditions and living environment are all planned, designed and built according to high standards, integrating campus and garden. The campus is full of birdsong, flowers, bridges and water, and a scene at every step. It is an ideal home for students to study, cultivate sentiments and fly their dreams.

The school has high-standard modern teaching buildings, student dormitories, experimental centers, training centers, libraries, gymnasiums, sports fields, college student activity centers, science and technology entrepreneurship parks and other teaching and cultural facilities. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 150 million yuan. The campus network has achieved "multi-link exports, dual 10G backbones, and 1G to the desktop" and full coverage, meeting the needs of education and teaching and the work and life of teachers and students.

In addition to high requirements for students' knowledge learning, the school also attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' practical ability, application skills, innovation ability and humanistic qualities. Instruments and equipment with high technical content and advanced performance have been purchased to enrich and strengthen the construction of a total of 121 experimental training rooms in machinery, CNC, ships, automobiles, electrical and electronics, construction, software, new energy, logistics, finance and public basic categories. The school has built a first-class 3D printing laboratory in China, and domestic leading laboratories for mechanical processing, CNC technology, robotics, automobile maintenance, electronic and electrical engineering, wind power generation, shipbuilding, construction, logistics, finance, and software design. The library has a collection of 1.256 million paper books, 1.91 million electronic books, 1,539 paper journals, and 15,500 electronic journals.

The school attaches great importance to the construction of the teaching staff, gives full play to the advantages of the system and mechanism, formulates special policies to introduce high-quality talents, and employs a group of well-known experts and professors from universities such as Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu University, Yangzhou University, and Nantong University to teach and manage. Among the school's teaching staff, teachers with doctoral and master's degrees account for more than 83.82%, and senior professional titles account for more than 45.14%. There are 4 provincial teaching masters, 4 municipal teaching masters, and 15 provincial "Blue and Green Project" talents. In order to make full use of excellent talent resources, accelerate the construction of the school's faculty, improve teaching quality, create a strong academic atmosphere, and promote the improvement of teaching and scientific research levels, the school has also specially hired more than 170 senior executives and senior engineering and technical personnel from the industry. The school has established a high-level faculty team that combines full-time and part-time teachers, is knowledgeable, and has rich teaching experience.

The school adheres to the principle of expert management, and has successively established a "Professor Committee", "Professional Construction Guidance Committee", "Teaching Guidance Committee", and "Enrollment and Employment Guidance Committee" composed of experts, professors, and entrepreneurs. It has also established an "Industry-Education-Research Cooperation Committee" led by the Nantong Municipal Government to study and guide discipline construction, professional settings, teaching quality, student ideological and political education, enrollment and employment, and regularly evaluate the quality of education and teaching, ensuring high-level discipline construction and first-class education and teaching quality, and closely integrating teaching with production, teaching with scientific research, and teaching with local economic and social development.

In order to implement the "Outline of the National Medium- and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan", the school formulated the "13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Nantong Institute of Technology" in combination with its own reality, and established six major strategies: talent-based school, quality-based school, characteristic-based school, top-notch school, service to society, and management innovation, and adhered to the path of connotation development, characteristic development, and innovative development. The school takes "virtue, strength, knowledge and practice" as its motto, comprehensively carries out quality education, and focuses on cultivating students' practical ability. By carrying out and participating in various skill competitions, students' hands-on operation ability is cultivated and their employment competitiveness is improved. In the past three years, the school has been approved for 2 first-level key construction disciplines in the "13th Five-Year Plan" of Jiangsu Province (mechanical engineering and business administration), 1 provincial university brand major (mechanical design, manufacturing and automation), 5 provincial first-class majors, 7 provincial online open courses, 5 provincial first-class courses, and 6 provincial key construction textbooks. Since 2019, our students have won 114 national awards and 1,124 provincial awards in subject competitions, and 2,992 students have won awards.

The school has twice won the title of Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates in Jiangsu Province and won the title of "Excellent Unit for Special Supervision and Assessment of Employment and Entrepreneurship of Graduates in the Province in 2018". The school's graduates are very popular in the society. In the past three years, the average annual employment rate of graduates has been above 96%.

The school adheres to the purpose of serving the local economic and social development, and actively builds various platforms to serve the local economic and social development. The school is a national automobile inspection and maintenance training base, a Jiangsu Province new energy application technology training base, a Jiangsu Province automobile application technology training base, a Jiangsu Province international service outsourcing talent training base, a Jiangsu Province industrial talent training base, a Jiangsu Province wind power technology research and development center, a Jiangsu Province 3D printing equipment and application technology key laboratory, a Jiangsu Province university Tonghu industry collaborative development research base, a Jiangsu Province popular science education base, a mechanical industry high-skilled talent training demonstration base, a Jiangsu Province high-tech entrepreneurship service center, a Jiangsu Province science and technology entrepreneurship park, a Jiangsu Province motor vehicle maintenance personnel qualification examination site, etc. The complete school conditions have laid a solid foundation for cultivating students' practical and innovative abilities. The school also has 10 national vocational skills appraisal stations (points), which can carry out vocational skills training and appraisal for 28 types of work, and obtain vocational qualifications and special skills certificates issued by national, provincial and municipal appraisal centers. The school is one of the drafting units of the national standardization guiding technical document "Guidelines for the Application of Quality Management System GB/T 19001 in Educational Organizations". Since the promotion to college, the school teachers have presided over 524 vertical scientific research projects at the municipal and departmental level and above, including 5 national projects (4 second units), 100 provincial and ministerial projects, and won 196 horizontal projects, with more than 23 million yuan in funds received; published 2,599 academic papers, including 405 core journal papers; published 64 monographs and 121 textbooks; obtained 1,365 patents and software copyrights, including 164 invention patents; won 35 scientific research achievement awards at the municipal and departmental level and above, including 9 provincial and ministerial awards; 119 scientific and technological achievements were transferred (chemicalized), and 12.15 million yuan in funds were received for transfer (chemicalization).

Since its establishment, the school has adhered to the school-running philosophy of "running schools sincerely and educating people with conscience", adhered to the "student-centered" education philosophy, and set "establishing first-class character, learning first-class skills, and creating first-class careers" as the education goal. It has adhered to the purpose of serving the local economic and social development, and its school-running performance has been recognized and praised by the government and all sectors of society. The school has been rated as "Jiangsu Civilized Campus", "Jiangsu Safe Campus Construction Demonstration University", "Jiangsu Private Education Advanced Unit", "Jiangsu Higher Education Harmonious Campus", "Jiangsu Safe Campus", "Jiangsu Education Advanced Collective (Advanced Grassroots Party Organization)", "Jiangsu Higher Education Ideological and Political Education Advanced Collective", "Jiangsu Model Faculty and Staff Home", "Jiangsu Higher Education 'Civilized Dormitory' Advanced Unit", "Jiangsu Higher Education 'Civilized Canteen'", "Jiangsu Higher Education Graduate Employment Advanced Collective", "Jiangsu Mechanical Industry High-skilled Talent Team Construction Advanced Collective" and "China's Outstanding Private Higher Education Institutions", "National Automotive Industry Backbone Vocational Colleges", "National Mechanical Industry Vocational Skills Appraisal Advanced Collective", "National Automobile Inspection and Maintenance Training Base Construction Site", etc. The school is the vice-chairman unit of the Higher Education Professional Committee of the China Private Education Association and the vice-chairman unit of the Jiangsu Higher Education Society. More than 10 media reporters including Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, China Education Daily, Xinhua Daily, etc. have visited the campus and reported on the school's achievements from multiple angles.

(Updated: January 2022)