[vc_row row_height_percent="0" back_color="color-126350" overlay_alpha="50" gutter_size="2" column_width_percent="100" shift_y="0" z_index="0"][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic="h1" text_size="h1" text_color="color-xsdn" sub_reduced="yes"]Ningbo University[/vc_custom_heading][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image media="66472" media_width_percent="50" alignment="center" advanced="yes" media_text="under" media_overlay_coloration="bottom_gradient" media_overlay_opacity="50" media_padding="2"][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic="p" text_size=""]<strong>Motto in English:</strong> “Seeking truth from facts and applying knowledge to the service of the nation"[citation needed]

<strong>Type:</strong> Public

<strong>Established:</strong> 1986

<strong>President:</strong> Manhong Shen

<strong>Academic staff:</strong> 2,300

<strong>Students:</strong> 25000[2]

<strong>Location:</strong> Ningbo, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

<strong>Campus:</strong> Urban, 5.3 km²[/vc_custom_heading][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic="p" text_size=""]The University is located in the historical and cultural city of Ningbo of Zhejiang Province, bordering on the East China Sea. Ningbo has long been acclaimed as a thriving commercial port and a shining pearl near the East Sea, and it has gradually grown to be a major city in the Southern part of the Yangtze Delta and a key trading port in the East China.

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The University has five campuses, covering an area of over 160 hectares, with a floor space totaling 560,000 square meters. The main campus, adjacent to Ningzhen Road in the north and Yongjiang River in the south, offers wide space for study and research with magnificent buildings and pleasant lawns and greenery.

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 1,400,000 books.

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The university consisting of 19 faculties and colleges offers 65 bachelor programs and 56 master programs. The number of its full-time undergraduate students amounts to 23,000 with 700 in-residency postgraduates. The number of the teaching and administrative staff reaches 2,400 of which 1300 are teachers, with 6 academicians, 188 full professors and 581 associate professors.

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The university is featured by its emphasis on the development of academic disciplines. Centering on the local economic and social development, the university has adjusted and optimized the structure of disciplines, and this has resulted in its 13 provincial key academic disciplines and key assisted academic disciplines, 11 municipal key academic disciplines and key assisted academic disciplines, which bear distinct regional characteristics.

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The university has also made great advancements in scientific studies and social services. It has 2 provincial key laboratories, 12 municipal key laboratories, and 77 institutes. It has jointly established, with the local enterprises, 3 provincial and municipal engineering and technology centers. The academic periodical of the university is the Journal of Ningbo University, which consists of editions of Natural Science and Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Education.

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Facing the great historical opportunity of developing higher education, Ningbo University, based on Ningbo and serving Zhejiang, is laying greater emphasis on improving its quality, raising its level, and heightening its status. The University is now endeavoring to become a well-known university with both educational and academic excellence, not only closely linked with the local economic and social development and satisfying the demands of the age, but also contributing more to the economic prosperity and social development of Zhejiang and the country as a whole[/vc_custom_heading][vc_button button_color="color-126350" size="btn-lg" radius="btn-round" border_width="0"]Apply Now[/vc_button][/vc_column][/vc_row]