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About Nanchang Institute Of Technology

Nanchang Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as ‘NIT’),a general private undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education, was founded in May 1999 and was upgraded to a higher vocational college with the approval of the Jiangxi Provincial People’s Government in April 2001 and was named as Jiangxi Aerospace Vocational College; it was upgraded to the first approval of private undergraduate colleges and universities with the approval of the Ministry of Education in May 2005, which was named as Nanchang Institute of Technology; in April 2009, it was approved by the Degree Committee of Jiangxi Provincial Government as the first approval of private university degree granting units in Jiangxi Province; in November 2012, NIT successfully passed the qualification evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the State Ministry of Education, which was the first private university passing the qualification evaluation at one time in Jiangxi Province. The expert team unanimously drew the conclusion that NIT is a banner of private education; in April 2016, NIT and East China Jiaotong University began to jointly train postgraduate students; in April 2017, NIT was listed as a construction unit of the 13th Five-Year Master Program authorized by The Degree Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People’s Government; In February 2018, it was named as a special school for national defense education by the Ministry of Education; in November, 2018, NIT successfully passed the undergraduate teaching review and evaluation by the State Ministry of Education. The expert team unanimously believed that Nanchang Institute of Technology is a national model private university with distinctive characteristics in national defense education and remarkable achievements in military education.

NIT is located in Nanchang, a heroic city in China. With the mission of “Hangtian Scientific Education, Revitalizing The Chinese Nation”, it adheres to the school motto of “Science, Objectivity, Virtue and Innovation”. Based in Jiangxi, NIT has a global vision and focuses on the development of social industrial structure and the demand for social talents so as to foster high-quality, application-innovative talents for national economic and social development.

Nanchang Institute of Technology covers an area of more than 3,000 acres, with a school building area of more than 700,000 square meters. There are 19 colleges, namely the Computer Information Engineering College, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering College, Electronics and Information College, Aerospace College, Construction Engineering College, Energy and Environmental Engineering College, Engineering Management College, Business Management College, Finance and Economics College, Humanities Education College, Foreign Languages College, Music College, Art and Design College, Media College, Sports College, Law College, Medicine College, International Exchanges College, Science and Technology college, and 3 departments namely Ideology and Politics, Public Education, and Military Education and Research, with nearly 30,000 full-time students.

The total assets of NIT amount to 2.9 billion Yuan, of which the total value of teaching and research equipment is 228 million Yuan. NIT has 1 national-level vocational education training base, 3 provincial-level experimental demonstration teaching centers, 244 laboratories and 255 internship training bases. The total area of the school library is 53,000 square meters, including 30,000 square meters of graphic information center, 5,426 reading seats, 3.05 million volumes of books and literature, 1.9 million types of electronic books, including China Knowledge Network, Chaoxing, Wanfang, Emerald and other 16 Chinese and foreign language databases, which is rich in books and digital resources.

Scientific Planning of Disciplines and Professional Layout Highlights the Development of Characteristics.

With the goal of “Reviving Gan (the short name of Jiangxi Province) through science and education and strengthening the province with science and technology”, NIT actively connects and serves regional economic and social development, and builds a disciplinary and professional system that serves local economic and social development. There are currently 66 undergraduate majors covering nine disciplines namely science, engineering, literature, economics, management, law, medicine, education, and art. In order to diversify its development, the school actively cultivates new disciplines and professional growth points, and applies for aviation majors such as helicopter driving technology, flight technology, and aerospace engineering. Our school’s flight technology major is rated as a provincial-level first-class construction major. In order to have characteristic development outstanding, NIT has actively applied for a number of emerging manufacturing majors, such as intelligent manufacturing engineering, robot engineering, data science and big data technology, Internet of Things engineering, new business majors including financial technology and financial engineering, nursing, rehabilitation and other new majors medical specialty. At present, the school has formed five discipline and professional clusters with comparative advantages to support the development of a new generation of information technology industry, the development of advanced manufacturing and aviation industry, the development of modern service industry, the development of cultural and creative industries, the development of energy conservation, environmental protection, new energy, and new materials industries. The school’s professional construction has achieved remarkable performances. The two disciplines of new energy science and engineering and military law are listed as key disciplines in the “12th Five-Year Plan” of colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province. Besides, there are one industry-university cooperation collaborative education project, three provincial-level excellent engineer training programs, three provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, two provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, and 15 provincial-level quality courses (quality resource sharing courses) .

Attaching Importance to Education and Teaching Reform and Strengthening the Quality of Training.

In order to deepen the reform of education and teaching, NIT adheres to the principle of coordinated development of knowledge, ability and quality, and strengthens the cultivation of professional application skills on the basis of attaching importance to the transfer of knowledge. NIT has constructed a “3 platform + interface” training plan, designed a “four practical” practical teaching system of “curriculum experiment + concentrated vocational skills training per semester + teaching link practice + second classroom practice”, and has formed a “Principal, Vice principals in charge, three-line monitoring, multi-point support, quality assurance system implemented at the grassroots level “and” three-line quality monitoring system with separate management, supervision and evaluation “.

In recent years, students have won 1,060 awards in various national and provincial mathematics modeling contests, electronic design contests, Challenge Cup national college students’ extracurricular academic and scientific works competitions, of which 168 are national awards; In the World Aerospace Model Championship in China, teachers and students of our school won four gold, one silver and four bronze on behalf of the Chinese team, especially in the rocket height record project and the recycling project, by beating the Russian team and the American team to win the championship. Because our students have solid basic knowledge, strong practical ability and adaptability, the positions they are engaged in are highly consistent with the majors they are studying, and they are well received by the employers. The employment rate of our school’s graduate students is higher than the provincial average employment rate of graduate students. It has been appraised as the “Advanced Unit for Employment of Graduates of Regular Universities in Jiangxi Province” for 5 consecutive years. Over the past 20 years of running the school, NIT has accumulated more than 198,000 outstanding graduates for social training, of which some graduates have worked in military units and enterprises such as China Aerospace Science and Technology, Aerospace Science and Technology Group, China Astronaut Training Center and Huawei Group; NIT has also trained a large number of outstanding entrepreneurs with assets of more than 100 million, including YONG zhijun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jiangxi Zhonglian Energy Development Co., Ltd., ZHANG Qiyi, Chairman of Shanghai Yiying Asset Management Co., Ltd., HUANG Pingxin, Chairman of the Virgin Angel Group. In recent years, the school has formed a gratifying situation of “prosperous imports, smooth exports and guaranteed intermediate quality”.