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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.
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