A Profile: Ningbo University

      Ningbo University is a dynamic, young and comprehensive university with a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, education, liberal arts, history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine and management. It is one of the key institutions of higher learning of Zhejiang Province. Deng Xiaoping autographed the name of Ningbo University. Throughout its establishment and development, the University has been upheld by considerable donations and generous support from patriotic overseas Chinese such as Sir Yue-kong Pao, Sir Run-run Shaw, Sir Chao An Chung, Sir Hans Tang, Sir Yue-shu Pao, Sir Cao Guangbiao, Sir Li Dashan, Sir Zhu Xiushan, as well as from personages of various circles in the country. Mr. Xu Funing, Deputy Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Committee of CPC, is concurrently Secretary of the Ningbo University Committee of CPC. Professor Nie Qiuhua holds the presidency of the university.
      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. 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 1,000,000 books. The university consists of 17 faculties and colleges which offers 57 bachelor¡¯s programs and 27 master's degree programs. The number of its full-time undergraduate students amounts to 16,626, along with 222 in-residency postgraduates. The number of the teaching and administrative staff reaches 2,033 of which 1078 are teachers, with 4 academicians, 141 full professors and 453 associate professors.
      Ningbo University ranks among the first group of universities of China to enroll students from China¡¯s mainland and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. It offers mainly undergraduate programs, and simultaneously it makes vigorous efforts to expand graduate programs, and also offers doctoral degrees in cooperation with other universities. Pursuing the tradition of "seeking truth from facts and applying knowledge to the service of the nation" as its mission, the university aims to carry out systems of credits, combination of major subjects with minor subjects and flexible study programs, and to implement the course structure with the first block of general education and the second block of specialty study, to bring about quality students with broad adaptability, good knowledge, and strong capacity.
      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. The university has also made great advancements in scientific studies and social services. It has 2 provincial key laboratories, 12 municipal key laboratories, and 71 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.
      Ningbo University maintains close links and intercollegiate cooperation with more than twenty well-known institutions of higher learning in Canada, Germany, France, Britain, USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Australia. The success of the international exchanges can be exemplified by its successful China-Canada joint-educational program and its other programs for international students from Japan and other foreign countries. It also has successful cooperation and exchanges with institutions of higher learning and educational agencies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Up to now it has signed cooperative agreements with The Chinese Culture University of Taiwan, Chaoyang University of Technology, Chihlee Institute of Commerce, and Taiwan Marine University, etc.
      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.

International College of Ningbo University

Brief Introduction
International College of Ningbo University came into existence in 1999.It has developed joint-educational programs with educational institutions in other countries and enrolled international students. Up to now, it has accepted hundreds of overseas students and scholars coming from America, Japan, UK, Canada, Australia,Norway,French and the Republic of Korea to study Chinese, to travel and to do research.

Class Types and Courses
1. Chinese Language and Culture Degree Course
This 4-Year Undergraduate Programs aims to equip international students with a sound Chinese language competence and solid knowledge of Chinese culture and society. Students who gains full credits may obtains the Chinese Bachelor degree.
2. Elementary Chinese Class
This class is aimed mainly to teach basic Chinese, to improve the students' listening, speaking, reading and writing ability, and to promote the students' communication ability in the Chinese language, and also to help students pass the HSK. Main courses: Basic Chinese, Chinese Reading Comprehension, Chinese Listening Comprehension, Basic Chinese Grammar, Chinese Conversation, Selected Readings in Newspapers and Periodicals, Chinese Handwriting Practice, Basic Chinese Writing and so on. In addition, optional courses are also offered related to Chinese Culture (such as History, Geography, Chinese Calligraphy, Literature, Arts, Religion, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Martial Arts and Chinese Cuisine) and Chinese Economy (such as Economic Reform, Economic Policy and Investment Environment, etc). According to the students' Chinese levels, we divide the class into Basic Chinese Group, Intermediate Chinese Group and Advanced Chinese Group. Each group has 20 periods a week. Along with the teaching, we organize students to visits factories, rural areas and places of interest to have informal discussions and language practice, and also to hold friendly activities with university and middle school students.
3. Various Kinds of Short-term Training Classes
a. Language and Culture Class
The courses for this class are concerned with Chinese Practical Conversation, A Survey of China, Chinese Economy, International Trade, Chinese Music, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Chinese Martial Arts, Foreign Relations, Traditional Culture, Chinese Customs, etc, which are taught in Chinese or fitted out with translation. In accordance with teaching, we organize students to visit factories, rural areas, town or city residential areas, and places of interest.
b. Law Class
In this class, we give such courses as Chinese Constitutions, People's Business Regulations, Economic Law, and relevant laws and regulations on Sino-foreign joint ventures, etc. In combination with the teaching, we organize students to visit Law Offices, to have discussions with law workers, and to audit the court trying a case.
c. Painting and Calligraphy Class
In this class, we give lessons about Theories and Techniques of Chinese handwriting, Chinese traditional Drawings (mountain and water painting, flower and bird painting, figure painting).
d. Cuisine Class
In this class, we give courses on the features and methods of making all kinds of Chinese dishes, and provide every student with a chance to make the dishes by himself/herself.
e. Physical Education Class
In this class, we give lessons on Chinese Traditional Martial Arts, Qigong and modern sports items. In compliance with the organizer's requests, different classes can have their different emphasis on the contents of courses. The students engaging in all above-mentioned long or short-term classes will take an examination at the end of their study. Those who pass the examination will be given a certificate of completing a course or a certificate of engaging in advanced studies.

State approved qualification
Since the establishment in 1986,Ningbo University has accepted hundreds of international students from over 15 countries. In 2003, the Ministry of Education of China endued Ningbo University the qualification to recruit international students studying in China under Chinese Government Scholarship Programme
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