Zhejiang Wanli University

Zhejiang Wanli University is run by Zhejiang Wanli Education Group and is a provincial general undergraduate university with a 72-year history. In 1999, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to become a new type of university that "implements a new management model and operating mechanism for public universities" and was praised by education experts as "a model practice of the modern university system with Chinese characteristics."

In 2004, the first Sino-foreign cooperative university in China, Ningbo University of Nottingham, was jointly founded with the University of Nottingham in the UK; in 2005, it passed the undergraduate teaching work level assessment of the Ministry of Education with excellent results; in 2011, the school was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as a pilot unit for master's professional degree graduate education, and became the chairman unit of the pilot unit alliance; in 2015, it became a "Zhejiang Province Application-oriented Construction Pilot Demonstration School"; in 2017, it became a "National Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform"; in 2018, Zhejiang Wanli College Overseas Campus was established in Hamburg, Germany; in 2021, it became a master's degree awarding unit.

The school is located in Ningbo, with a construction area of ​​650,000 square meters, and has campuses such as Qianhu and Huilong. The campus has beautiful scenery and complete teaching facilities. It has won provincial honorary titles such as "Civilized Campus", "Safe Campus", "Green School", and "Public Security Demonstration Unit".

For more than 20 years of innovative school-running, the school has become an application-oriented university with coordinated development of literature, economics, management, science, engineering, agriculture, law, and art. There are 13 secondary colleges, including the School of Business, School of Logistics and E-commerce, School of Law, School of Culture and Communication, School of Foreign Languages, School of Design, Art and Architecture, School of Biology and Environment, School of Big Data and Software Engineering, School of Information and Intelligent Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, International College, Sino-German School of Design and Communication, and School of Continuing Education, with 54 enrollment majors, professional degree graduate education in three degree programs of international business, biology and medicine, and engineering management, and more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates, graduate students, and international students. There are more than 1,400 faculty and staff, and nearly 600 teachers with senior professional titles, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, experts with special allowances from the State Council, national model teachers, members of the National Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, winners of the "National Natural Science Foundation Excellent Youth", experts with outstanding contributions in Zhejiang Province, young top talents in the Zhejiang "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", Zhejiang Province "151" talents, provincial college teaching masters, and young and middle-aged discipline leaders in provincial colleges. The school has a national teaching team, a team of post scientists in the industrial technology system of the Ministry of Agriculture, a provincial college innovation team, a provincial science and technology commissioner team, a provincial teaching team, etc.

The school has 75 provincial platforms, including provincial key disciplines, first-class disciplines, key research bases for philosophy and social sciences, academician expert workstations, experimental teaching demonstration centers, and key laboratories; it has 15 provincial-level and above first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, including 9 national-level first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 2 courses have been awarded the first batch of national-level first-class undergraduate courses, and 77 courses have been recognized as provincial-level first-class courses. In the past two years, it has been at the forefront of multi-disciplinary teaching-oriented universities in Zhejiang Province in the stratified and classified evaluation. It has won 101 provincial and municipal teaching achievement awards, including 2 second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award (host).

The school has 54 platform projects, including national characteristic majors, the Ministry of Education's talent training model innovation experimental zone, national boutique courses, national boutique resource sharing courses, and national bilingual teaching demonstration courses, and the Ministry of Education's New Century Higher Education Teaching Reform Project, and has won 89 national, provincial and municipal teaching achievement awards.

School-government-enterprise collaboration, industry-science-education integration. The school has established 11 industry-specific colleges, including Ningbo Cross-border E-commerce College and Ningbo Intellectual Property College, of which 1 provincial-level modern industry college and 3 Ningbo-level industry-specific colleges have been approved; 1 national-level and 1 provincial-level demonstration base for innovation and application of industry-education integration have been approved; 1 national-level and 5 provincial-level off-campus practical education bases for college students aim to cultivate various types of specialized talents for the industry, and to provide strong support for the industry in scientific research, social services, and cultural heritage innovation, thereby leading the development of regional industries.

Combined with the innovation and entrepreneurship education platform, improve the comprehensive quality of students. The school has the first "College Entrepreneurship Instructor Training Base" in the country, is the "First Council Unit of the UNESCO China Entrepreneurship Education Alliance", "The First Member Unit of the Entrepreneurship Education Professional Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education", and "Zhejiang Province Entrepreneurship University Pilot University", and ranked 28th in the top 500 "China University Entrepreneurship Competitiveness Ranking" of the Entrepreneurship Times Network in 2019. According to the survey data released by the Zhejiang Provincial Education Evaluation Institute, the entrepreneurship rate of our students three years after graduation reached 8.21%, ranking among the top in the province. The average satisfaction score of employers for graduates' practical skills, professional level, innovation ability, cooperation and coordination ability, and interpersonal communication ability is 92.79, which is higher than the average level of Zhejiang Province.

Focus on foreign exchanges and cooperation to create a strong international atmosphere. In recent years, the school has successively established the "Czech Language and Culture Exchange Center", "Silk Road Business School Alliance", "Belt and Road Talent Training Innovation Platform", and "Belt and Road Language College". It has established inter-school cooperation with more than 80 colleges and universities in more than 30 countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Taiwan and Hong Kong, and opened up various types of international exchange and learning programs for students such as exchange students, overseas study, 2+2 dual degrees, and undergraduate and master's degree programs. Nearly 400 students go to cooperative colleges for study and exchange every year, which expands their international vision and improves their cross-cultural communication skills.

Connotative development, social reputation is growing. CCTV's "News Network" and "Focus Interview" and other columns, Zhejiang TV, Ningbo TV, "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "China Education Daily", "China Youth Daily", "Zhejiang Daily" and other news media have reported on Wanli College more than 3,000 times.

The school adheres to the application-oriented positioning, service-oriented pursuit, entrepreneurial characteristics and international characteristics, abides by the school philosophy of "student-oriented, teacher-based, market-oriented and internationally integrated", promotes the university spirit of "as long as there is 1% hope, we must make 100% effort" and the school motto of "self-improvement, perseverance and practice", gives full play to the innovative advantages of the system and mechanism, aims to build a distinctive and high-level applied university, and strives to form a school-running pattern with "four-wheel drive" of industry-science-education integration, school-government-enterprise collaboration, international cooperation, and innovative and entrepreneurial education.