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Ningbo University: A Rising Star of China's Higher Institutions
Ningbo University is a dynamic, young and comprehensive university rising along with China's reform and opening up to the world. It is a public university with support from overseas Ningboese. In 1986, the university was founded with generous donation from Sir Yue-kong Pao, an overseas compatriot of Ningbo origin and a global tycoon in shipping. Deng Xiaoping autographed the name of Ningbo University. At its early stage of development, the university gained great assistance from such renowned universities in China as Zhejiang University, Fudan University, University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University and Hangzhou University. In 1996, a new Ningbo university was established on the basis of the amalgamation of the three former individual institutes, namely, Ningbo University, Ningbo Teachers' College and Zhejiang Aquatic College (Ningbo campus).
In 1992, Ningbo University was approved the first priority in recruitment of top-layer students. In 2000, it was listed as a key institute of higher education in Zhejiang Province. In 2003, it was awarded "Excellence" by the MOE after strict evaluation. In 2005, it numbered more than 50 master programs. In 2006, it won a second prize of National Scientific Progress Award, a first prize of Science Award granted by MOE, and 2 State Key Courses. In 2007, the university was authorized to recruit doctoral applicants in Engineering Mechanics, Telecommunication and Information System, and Aquaculture.
Located in the Higher Education (North) zone, the main campus of NBU covers an area of over 180 hectares, with a floor space totaling 780,000 square meters. The university supplies a complete set of facilities and services for teaching and research. Its libraries now have a CNKI Network Administrative Service Center, and a collection of approximately 2,500,000 books. In addition, it has 6 well-equipped attached hospitals.
With a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, education, liberal arts, history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine and management, the university consists of 19 faculties and colleges, offering 3 doctoral programs, 62 master programs and 71 bachelor programs.
The staff number reaches 2,400, of which 1,300 are teachers, with 6 academicians from the National Academy of Science, 3 scholars of "The Great Talent Project" and 55 winners of Special Government Allowance. Ningbo University boasts 258 professors, 752 associate professors. It has more than 24,200 full-time students involved in the undergraduate programs, more than 2,000 in the master programs, more than 200 overseas students, and 17,000 part-time students.