Ningbo University

Ningbo University is an emerging local comprehensive university that has grown during China’s reform and opening-up. It was founded in 1986 with a donation from the world-renowned shipping magnate Sir Yue-Kong Pao, and Deng Xiaoping inscribed its name. In 2012, it became jointly supported by Zhejiang Province, the Ministry of Education and Ningbo Municipality. In 2015, it was selected among Zhejiang’s first universities prioritized for development, and in 2017 it entered the national Double First-Class initiative. Located in the northern section of Ningbo Higher Education Park, it covers 3551 mu with more than 1.241 million square meters of buildings. Beside the Yong River, its shady trees, lines of egrets, green lawns and elegant buildings provide an excellent setting for study and scholarship. It has 16298 regular full-time undergraduates, 6719 postgraduate students of various types, 2651 international students, including 1668 degree students, and 15476 higher-degree continuing education students. It has 2720 faculty and staff, including more than 1750 full-time teachers, 390 personnel with full senior professional titles, 790 with associate senior titles, and 1030 with doctorates. Its faculty includes 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 fellow of both Canadian academies, 1 fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, 2 members of the State Council’s discipline evaluation groups, and 5 experts under the national Thousand Talents Program.

Research

The university places great importance on research, actively addressing national and regional strategic needs and emphasizing academic and technological innovation. It has 1 cultivation base for a national key laboratory, 1 national-local joint engineering laboratory, 1 national university science park for which it is the lead institution, 1 Ministry of Science and Technology international science and technology cooperation base, 1 national achievement promotion institution, 2 Ministry of Education key laboratories, 1 Ministry of Education joint international cooperation laboratory, 1 Ministry of Education engineering technology center, 2 Plan 111 discipline innovation and overseas expertise introduction bases, 1 Zhejiang collaborative innovation public service platform for efficient and healthy marine aquaculture, 1 Ministry of Education science and technology novelty search station, 1 General Administration of Sport key social science research base, 8 Zhejiang key laboratories, 1 Zhejiang key philosophy and social science research base, 1 Zhejiang cultural innovation team, and 2 new-style think tanks at Zhejiang universities.

In recent years, projects it led and completed have received 1 second prize in the State Natural Science Awards, 1 second prize in the State Technological Invention Awards, and 2 second prizes in the National Science and Technology Progress Awards, achieving breakthroughs in all three major national science and technology award categories. Its social science research ranks among the top 10% of Chinese universities. It has been recognized among China’s ten outstanding cases of university-industry-research cooperation. In 2017, it received the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award, described as the country’s only highest honor for integration of government, industry, universities, research, finance and users. Its number of valid invention patents ranks among the top 50 Chinese universities.

Teaching and Degree Program Development

Ningbo University has 21 schools, with 7 provincial Class A first-class disciplines and 6 provincial Class B first-class disciplines. According to ESI data, 4 disciplines—engineering, clinical medicine, chemistry and materials science—rank in the top 1% of academic institutions worldwide. It offers doctoral degrees in 2 first-level and 14 second-level disciplines, 3 postdoctoral research stations, master’s degrees in 19 first-level disciplines, 17 professional master’s degree authorizations including Master of Engineering fields, and 75 undergraduate programs. Following the educational philosophy of “giving students the choice of how to develop their talents,” it has reformed its talent development model through broad-category admission and education. It has received 1 first prize and 3 second prizes in national teaching achievement awards. It has 6 national distinctive programs, 3 national comprehensive program reform projects, 2 national outstanding talent training programs, 1 national teaching team, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental center, 1 national off-campus practice base for university students, 1 Ministry of Education experimental zone for innovative talent development models, and 1 national cultural quality education base for university students.

International Exchange

The university actively advances internationalization and has established cooperation and exchange relationships with more than 170 institutions in over 70 countries. It has jointly established 1 Chinese-foreign cooperative education institution with the University of Angers in France. Its cooperative education programs include a China–Australia MBA, a China–US undergraduate program in mathematics and applied mathematics, a China–Canada Humber program, ACCA/CPA, and an Indonesia “2+2” undergraduate dual-degree program. It offers an entirely English-taught broad category in international business administration, and has developed 16 undergraduate, 16 master’s and 2 doctoral internationalized programs. It has established Confucius Institutes in cooperation with the University of Iceland and the University of Toamasina in Madagascar.

Exchanges with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have become increasingly frequent. It conducts institutional academic and student exchanges and cooperation with the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It has signed academic exchange and cooperation agreements with 25 Taiwan universities, including Fu Jen Catholic University, National Taiwan Ocean University, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology and Soochow University. In 1993, it pioneered cross-Strait university student exchanges and visits, and there have been 24 reciprocal student visits between Ningbo and Taiwan. Its reciprocal student study visits between Ningbo and Hong Kong, organized with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, have been included in the Ministry of Education’s Ten Thousand Talents Program.

The university implements the spirit of the National Outline for Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development and seizes opportunities from rapid local economic and social development. Upholding its motto, “Seek Truth from Facts and Apply Knowledge to the World,” and its spirit of “Inclusiveness, Self-Improvement, Practical Innovation and Progress with the Times,” it is improving internationalization across the institution and accelerating the development of a distinctive, high-level teaching and research university known in China and abroad, working toward its goal of becoming a first-class local comprehensive university in China.

Contact Details

Inquiries: +86（0）574-87600335

Fax: +86（0）574-87600145

Email: admissions@nbu.edu.cn

Application website: http://is.nbu.edu.cn

Address: International College, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province