Nanjing Audit University

Nanjing Audit University (Nanjing Audit University), referred to as NAU, is the only full-time general undergraduate college named after "Audit" in China. The school was established at the same time as the National Audit Office and developed in parallel with China's auditing cause. It is one of the birthplaces of China's auditing higher education. In 2011, the school was changed to a university jointly built by three ministries and one province (the National Audit Office, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and Jiangsu Province).

Nanjing Audit University is the only full-time general undergraduate college named after "Audit". It is one of the birthplaces of my country's auditing higher education. It was established because of auditing, exists for auditing, thrives on auditing, and becomes strong by auditing. The school was founded in 1983, renamed Nanjing Audit University in 1987, merged with Nanjing Finance College in 2002, and became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the National Audit Office and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province in 2011. In 2015, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to change its name to its current name.

In the 38 years of school-running practice, the school has always adhered to the original intention of serving the audit cause, followed the school-running philosophy of "characteristics, quality, and internationalization", and practiced the school motto of "integrity, truth-seeking, diligence, and public service". It has developed into a cradle for audit talent training, a base for audit scientific research, a think tank for the development of the audit cause, and a window for international audit exchanges.

The school currently has more than 18,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates, and international students; more than 1,100 full-time teachers, including 185 senior professional titles, 731 with doctoral degrees, and 273 postgraduate tutors; it has two campuses in Pukou and Mochou, covering an area of ​​1.2 million square meters. The Party School of the National Audit Office of the Communist Party of China and the Audit Cadre Education College of the National Audit Office are located in the Pukou campus.

The school has built a discipline and professional system with auditing as its brand, and disciplines such as economics, management, law, engineering, liberal arts and science support each other and develop in a coordinated manner. In 2011, it was approved as one of the first batch of auditing master's professional degree authorization institutions in the country, and in 2013 it was approved as a master's degree (academic degree) authorization institution. In 2017, it became a newly added doctoral degree awarding institution in Jiangsu Province. There are 7 first-level master's degree-granting disciplines (business administration, theoretical economics, applied economics, law, statistics, computer science and technology, public administration), 8 master's professional degree-granting points (auditing, accounting, finance, business administration, international business, law, applied statistics, electronic information); it has 2 advantageous disciplines of Jiangsu universities (business administration, applied economics), 1 key (cultivation) discipline of Jiangsu Province (theoretical economics) and 5 key construction disciplines of Jiangsu Province (public administration, statistics, computer science and technology, mathematics, Marxist theory); in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, the first-level discipline of business administration was evaluated as B; it was rated A in the comprehensive evaluation of graduate education in Jiangsu Province for the first time in 2020.

The school has 18 colleges (teaching departments) including the Government Audit College and the School of Accounting, and 5 characteristic research institutes including the China Internal Audit College, the Guofu Zhongshen College, and the Institute of Economics and Finance; it has established Runyuan, Zeyuan, Chengyuan, and Qinyuan academies to explore the "dual-college system" education model of academies and colleges. There are 36 undergraduate majors, including 11 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 4 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 3 Ministry of Education characteristic major construction sites, 2 Ministry of Education "comprehensive reform pilot projects", 5 Jiangsu Province "12th Five-Year Plan" key majors (categories), 3 Jiangsu University brand majors, 5 Jiangsu Province characteristic majors; 2 national online boutique courses, 5 national first-class undergraduate courses; 1 national teaching team, 5 Jiangsu University "Blue Project" excellent teaching teams; 1 Jiangsu Province higher education talent training model innovation experimental base. In 2007, it won the excellent in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education; in 2012, it was rated as the first batch of "Jiangsu Province Advanced University for Teaching Work"; in 2017, it successfully passed the review and evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. Since its establishment, it has trained nearly 70,000 full-time graduates, nearly half of whom are engaged in auditing and economic supervision. According to the Jiangsu Province College Admissions and Employment Guidance Service Center's annual "Jiangsu Province Undergraduate Graduation Employment Situation Survey Report" and "Jiangsu Province Employer Recruitment Situation Survey Report", the school's graduate employment quality index ranks among the best; the overall satisfaction of graduates with their alma mater and the satisfaction of employers with graduates have increased year by year, stabilizing at more than 90%.

The school has established 6 philosophy and social science research bases in Jiangsu universities, including “Modern Audit Development Research Center”, “Economic Supervision Research Center”, “Financial Risk Management Research Center”, “Government Audit and Regional Governance Legal Research Institute”, “Jiangsu Labor Rule of Law Research Base” and “Jiangsu Science and Technology Financial System Innovation Research Base”, and 4 provincial key laboratories, including “Public Engineering Audit”, “Audit Information Engineering”, “Financial Engineering” and “Jiangsu Audit Big Data Project”; signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Audit Office of the Central Military Commission and the Joint Service College of the National Defense University, and cooperated with audit agencies such as the Jiangsu Provincial Audit Office and the Guangdong Provincial Audit Office, as well as local governments such as Beihai City, Huai’an City, and Zhuhai City to establish Beihai Audit Research Institute, Huai’an Research Institute, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Audit Research Institute and other school-local joint research institutes to continuously improve social service capabilities; the “Audit and Economic Research” sponsored by it is a CSSCI source journal and a famous social science journal of national universities, and the “Journal of Nanjing Audit University” is a CSSCI source journal (extended version) and a national high-quality social science journal of universities. In the past five years, the school has hosted 202 National Social Science Fund and National Natural Science Fund projects, including major bidding projects of the National Social Science Fund, and 233 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects; participated in the construction of important policies and laws and regulations of the National Audit Office and major theoretical topics such as the construction of audit disciplines; published 487 papers in authoritative journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, and Economic Research, 1,221 papers in journals above CSSCI/CSCD, and published more than 100 academic monographs; won 54 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences) and the first prize of Jiangsu Province's Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences. The international standard for audit data collection (ISO/PC 295) in which the school participated became the first international standard in the field of auditing in ISO.

The school currently has 3 provincial and ministerial teaching teams such as Jiangsu Province's "Qinglan Project", 2 provincial high-level research teams such as Jiangsu Province's "Qinglan Project"; more than 20 people have various national talent titles, including 4 people in the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 cultural celebrity and "Four Batches" talent of the Central Propaganda Department, 1 person in the "Hundreds of Thousands of Talents Project" of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and 6 members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education; 5 experts enjoying special government allowances, 3 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Jiangsu Province, 66 people selected for Jiangsu Province's "333 High-level Talent Training Project", 19 talents in Jiangsu Province's "Double Innovation Plan", and more than 140 people in other provincial talent projects such as Jiangsu Distinguished Professors, Provincial Teaching Masters, "Qinglan Project", "Six Talent Peaks", etc.; more than 10 people have been commended as advanced individuals of the National Audit Office, outstanding educators of Jiangsu Province, and other provincial and above individuals.

As the organizer of the "Chinese Government Audit Scholarship" project jointly established by the National Audit Office and the Ministry of Education, and the organizer of the "Foreign Aid Degree Education" of the Ministry of Commerce, the school recruits and trains master's students in auditing from countries along the "Belt and Road", and has passed the Ministry of Education's quality certification for studying in China with high quality; it has been certified by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) as China's only "Internal Audit Education Partner" (IAEP) cooperative-level university, and has carried out student exchanges, teacher mutual employment, credit recognition, and scientific research cooperation with partner universities around the world; it has been rated by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the United Kingdom as "the university with the most ACCA talents in the world" and "a platinum-level training institution"; it has cooperated with many internationally renowned universities such as Curtin University in Australia, London School of Economics and Political Science, Imperial College London, University of Birmingham, and Queen's University Belfast to organize degree and non-degree undergraduate education programs; it has cooperated with SKEMA Business School in France to establish an international joint audit school; and it has been approved as a base construction unit for the Ministry of Education's "High-level International Talent Training Innovation and Practice Project". In the past five years, 1,500 students have gone to overseas universities for study and exchange, participated in international conferences, academic competitions, and overseas volunteer activities; a total of 27 teachers have been selected to perform 70 UN audit tasks, and 10 teachers have been selected into the UN audit talent pool; more than 500 teachers have gone abroad to participate in international conferences, visit and study, and academic exchanges; and have established extensive cooperative relations with international industry organizations such as the World Organization of International Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and the Asian Organization of International Audit Institutions (ASOSAI), and the Supreme Audit Institutions of dozens of countries and regions such as the United States and France. Auditors-General of nearly 40 countries and regions such as the United States, France, Brazil, India, and South Africa have been appointed honorary professors of the school; 45 international conferences and international training courses have been hosted and organized.

At present, all the people of Nanshen, under the leadership of the party and government leadership team of the school, guided by Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and anchored on the development goals of the "14th Five-Year Plan", are working hard to accelerate the construction of a high-level characteristic university with important influence at home and abroad, and an audit university renowned at home and abroad!

(Data updated to March 2021)