WHY NUAA?

NUAA took the 1st place in Chinese University of satisfaction list. With rapid progress in teaching and researching, NUAA has successfully entered the 211 project and accomplished the 9th five-year-project, setting up solid foundations for further development in research, teaching and technology innovation an application. Basic construction in NUAA has made great strides in supporting the above. Since 1996 the School has developed a total of 280,000 square meters, an equivalent to that completed between 1952 and 1985, to suit the increasing demand for development. To meet the new challenge in the 21st century, NUAA has raised funds to purchase 67 hectares for a new campus in Jiangning Economic & Technological Development Zone. The new campus, with 9500 students living on it now, shall accommodate 14,000 students upon completion.Adorned by beautiful trees and flowers.

NUAA has become a key comprehensive university after 5 decades' development. Faced with new challenges and opportunities at the 21st century, faculty and students at NUAA are determined to seek further development with great confidence. The School will continue to focus on teaching and researching for better quality of education, higher standards of disciplines, more scientific achievements, and greater efficiency in management and yield in operation. Through combined efforts, we will gradually turn NUAA into a first-rate university in China in 30 years and make it well known in the world.

Advantages of NUAA:

1. According to the statistics issued by the Ministry of Education, NUAA remained one of the ten top universities for 7 consecutive years (from 1991 to 1997) in terms of the total number of achievements and awards in scientific research.

2. NUAA was awarded "Unit of Great Contributions "by AVIC and "Advanced Group of Scientific and Technological Work in National Institutions of Higher Learning" by the former Ministry of Education and the former National Commission of Science of China.

3. It is hoped that by 2010, NUAA will have become the nation's first-class university enjoying worldwide renown.

4. The University offers the courses both in English Medium and Chinese medium.

5. NUAA has taken great interest in international academic exchanges and scientific cooperation. Since 1987, over 1,000 persons have been sent to as many as 34 countries and regions for advanced studies, academic exchanges and cooperation.

6. NUAA now has over 13,100 students pursuing degree programs at different levels. Among them.11,100 are undergraduates and about 2,000 postgraduate students.

7. The University has a staff strength of 2, 450, among whom 1,380 are faculty members and researchers with 160 being professors and 540 being associate professors.

8. NUAA has raised enough funds and purchased an area of 50 hectares in the Jiangning High-Tech Development Zone to build a new campus that can accommodate 12,000 students.

9. NUAA consists of 10 colleges. NUAA has set up as many as 50 research institutes.

10. There are as many as 27 programs with 50 majors, among which, 42 offer master's degrees and 21 doctor's degrees