Founded in 1902, Nanjing University(NJU) enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad, whose history has been closely connected with the mission of the nation and the needs of society. The vision of NJU is to develop into a world-class comprehensive, research-intensive and internationalized higher learning institution with top faculty, students and research.
Presently, NJU consists of four campuses of Gulou, Xianlin, Pukou and Suzhou with over 36,000 full-time students, among whom about 13,000 are undergraduate students, more than 19,900 graduate students, and about 3,400 international students, studying in 31 schools containing 73 departments.
NJU is listed as one of the first group of high-level universities in the national "Project 211"and"Project 985", which provide intensive support from the central government. As a member of the China 9 League(C9), NJU boasts a strong team of faculty in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine and engineering.