Lu Jian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of Nanjing University, recently revealed that Nanjing University will expand its undergraduate enrollment by 500 in 2022. In addition, the reporter of Shanghai Securities News learned from the Admissions Office of Nanjing University that this year, Nanjing University will add two undergraduate majors of digital economy and intelligent science and technology, and extend the existing undergraduate talent training of integrated circuit design and integrated system and software engineering to Suzhou University. The four majors recruit students according to a major category of “technical science experimental class”, with a enrollment scale of 500 people.
Suzhou campus was opened, and NTU stepped into “one, two cities and four campuses”
According to reports, Nanjing University has always adhered to connotative development, and the undergraduate enrollment scale has been maintained at about 3300 in recent ten years. This enrollment expansion is mainly based on the further improvement of the school running space and connotation of Nanjing University. On June 23, 2020, the Ministry of Education approved Nanjing University and Suzhou to jointly build the Suzhou campus of Nanjing University. In 2022, Nanjing University will celebrate its 120th birthday, Suzhou campus will also be unveiled and set sail at a new historical starting point, and the scale of undergraduate enrollment will be expanded to 3850. The school running space of Nanjing University will also step into the new pattern of “one body, two cities and four campuses”, providing a broad stage for more students to study and become talents.
As a new starting point, New Hope Liuhe Co.Ltd(000876) , new power and new platform for the development of Nanjing University in the new century, Suzhou campus will follow the school running concept of “equal standards, misplaced development, innovative mechanism and world-class” and the school running mode of “talent training, scientific and technological innovation, international exchange and integration of industry and research”, face the national strategy and regional industrial layout, and focus on artificial intelligence, information technology, life and health Key areas such as ecological and environmental protection and the industrial layout of digital economy in Suzhou, and strengthen the construction of new engineering and new liberal arts.
Position the new engineering and liberal arts, and the enrollment specialty keeps pace with the times
Nanjing University has strong discipline strength, with 8 national key disciplines of first-class disciplines, 13 national key disciplines of second-class disciplines and 16 “double first-class” construction disciplines. There are 14 training bases for top students in basic disciplines, ranking second in the total number of colleges and universities in China. Suzhou campus will focus on the national strategy, lay out important areas of major national needs, focus on key core technology breakthroughs, strengthen the layout of application-oriented scientific research, serve local leading industries, and focus on building five university science groups, chemical and biomedical and health engineering, functional materials and intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence and information technology, earth system and future environment based on Nanjing University’s own talent advantages, platform advantages and discipline advantages Digital economy and management science. Among them, NTU will add two undergraduate majors of intelligent science and technology and digital economy this year. At the same time, it will extend the existing undergraduate talent training of integrated circuit design and integrated system and software engineering to Suzhou campus.
Nanjing University has a high-quality faculty, including 28 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of engineering, 327 national leading talents and 347 national young talents. During the construction period of Suzhou campus, the university will send a top and leading talent teaching team and excellent management team from Nanjing campus to Suzhou in a part-time, full-time and full-time manner, benchmarking the academic standards and salary standards of international first-class universities, and recruiting a world-class teaching team in the face of “high-end + marketization + internationalization”. At present, Professor Xu Zuxin, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, Professor Stephen H. muggleton, academician of the Royal Academy of engineering, Professor Cao Wenwu, former lifelong professor of Pennsylvania State University, and a group of young scholars with doctoral degrees or postdoctoral experience from overseas first-class universities have signed up to join Nanjing University.
Integrated training of two cities and three campuses, a variety of academic career experience of Nanjing University
From 2022, Suzhou campus of Nanjing University, Gulou campus and Xianlin Campus will jointly undertake undergraduate teaching tasks. The three campuses will adopt the integrated training mode of “the same college code, the same category enrollment, synchronous diversion mechanism, sharing training resources and the same graduation certificate”. That is, in the autumn of 2022, all freshmen will experience the “root seeking” school running of Nanjing University in Gulou campus and study and live in different academies of Xinsheng college. After completing the general training in the first academic year according to the same standards and models, it will be diverted to the corresponding colleges in each campus from the second academic year. Students in all campuses enjoy equal opportunities in the top-notch plan, secondary selection, international exchange, social practice, etc.
The Suzhou campus of Nanjing University covers an area of about 2000 mu, surrounded by Zhuangli mountain, Jiuqu River in the East, Kunlun mountain road in the north, Taihu Avenue in the south, mountains and rivers in the south. According to the plan, the Suzhou campus will be built in stages according to the eastern and western districts. Among them, the Eastern District will be gradually put into use in September 2022, and the western district is planned to be gradually put into use from September 2023 to September 2024. (Zhong Qian)
