Nanjing Tech University

Nanjing Tech University (Chinese: 南京工业大学, abbreviated 南工) is a provincial public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, created in 2001 by merging Nanjing University of Chemical Technology with Nanjing Architectural Engineering College.南京工业大学（Nanjing Tech University，简称南工）是江苏省南京市的一所省属公立大学，2001 年由南京化工大学与南京建筑工程学院合并组建。

It is co-built by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Jiangsu provincial government, leads the national 2011 Innovation Capacity Enhancement Plan, and was chosen for Class A of Jiangsu's Peak Plan for high-level universities in September 2021.学校由住房和城乡建设部与江苏省人民政府共建，是国家「2011 计划」牵头高校，并于 2021 年 9 月入选江苏高水平大学建设高峰计划 A 类。

More than 40,000 students study in its 11 divisions and 29 schools, taught by about 3,300 staff including 10 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and its chemical engineering lineage reaches back to 1958.学校设 11 个学部、29 个学院，各类学生 4 万余人，教职工近 3300 人，其中两院院士 10 人，其化工学科的渊源可追溯至 1958 年。

History

• In 1952 the engineering college of Nanjing University, with its electrical, mechanical, civil, architectural and chemical departments, merged with the university's agricultural engineering department and with Jinling University's electrical and chemical engineering departments to form Nanjing Institute of Technology.1952 年，包含电机、机械、土木、建筑、化工五个系的南京大学工学院，与南京大学农学院农业工程系、金陵大学电机工程系和化学工程系合并为南京工学院。
• In August 1958 the Jiangsu provincial government approved Nanjing Chemical Engineering Institute on the base of that chemical engineering department, placing it under the provincial industry department at Dingjiaqiao, the former site of Nanjing Agricultural College.1958 年 8 月，江苏省人民委员会批准在南京工学院化工系的基础上成立南京化工学院，隶属江苏省工业厅，校址设在丁家桥原南京农学院旧址。
• In 1963 supervision of the institute passed from the Jiangsu industry department to the Ministry of Chemical Industry, a transfer that tied its curriculum to the national chemical sector.1963 年，学院的主管部门由江苏省工业厅变更为化学工业部，其课程设置由此与全国化工行业紧密挂钩。
• From 1978 the State Council's academic degree committee authorised master's programmes in chemical machinery, applied chemistry, inorganic non-metallic materials, chemical engineering and polymer materials.1978 年起，国务院学位委员会陆续批准学院设置化工机械、应用化学、无机非金属材料、化学工程与高分子材料五个硕士点。
• In 1985 the institute won doctoral authority in chemical engineering, chemical machinery and inorganic non-metallic materials, three fields that still define its research profile.1985 年，学院获批化学工程、化工机械与无机非金属材料三个博士学位授予点，这三个方向至今仍是其科研主线。
• In September 1992 the institute signed an agreement with Jiangpu county to build a new campus, and in October the Ministry of Chemical Industry approved the purchase of 400 mu there.1992 年 9 月，学院与原江浦县政府签署协议筹建新校区，同年 10 月化学工业部同意在江浦征地 400 亩。
• In April 1995 Nanjing Chemical Engineering Institute was renamed Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, a change that recognised its shift from an institute to a university.1995 年 4 月，南京化工学院更名为南京化工大学，这一变化标志着它从学院建制转为大学建制。
• By 1997 the university ran ten departments and 30 programmes with three doctoral and seven master's points on 645 mu of land, and in November that year construction of the Jiangpu campus began.到 1997 年，学校设有 10 个系、30 个本专科专业，拥有 3 个博士点与 7 个硕士点，占地约 645 亩，同年 11 月江浦校区一期开工。
• In July 1998 the university passed from the Ministry of Chemical Industry to Jiangsu Province, the Jiangpu campus opened in September, and Pujiang College was founded as a publicly run, privately funded second-level college.1998 年 7 月，学校由化学工业部划归江苏省管理，9 月江浦校区一期投入使用，同年成立公有民办二级学院浦江学院。
• In February 1999 the Ministry of Personnel approved a postdoctoral station in chemical engineering and technology, by which time the university had 12 schools and two campuses on about 1,200 mu.1999 年 2 月，经人事部批准，学校设立化学工程与技术博士后科研流动站，当时已设 12 个学院，占地约 1200 亩，分本部与江浦两个校区。
• In 2000 the Lighting Materials Research Institute, a centre created by the Ministry of Light Industry in 1980, was merged wholesale into Nanjing University of Chemical Technology.2000 年，原轻工业部所属、1980 年建立的电光源材料科学研究所整体并入南京化工大学。
• The architecture line began in 1915 as a mechanical training course attached to the Tongji Medical Engineering School, an institution founded in Shanghai by the German physician Erich Paulun.建筑学科的源头是 1915 年同济医工学堂附设的机师科，该校由德国医生埃里希·宝隆在上海创办。
• In 1933 National Tongji University built a senior vocational school on that course, teaching mechanical and civil engineering at the former Labour University engineering site in Jiangwan, Shanghai.1933 年，国立同济大学在该机师科基础上成立附设高级职业学校，设机械、土木两科，校址为上海江湾原劳动大学工学院。
• Renamed the National Tongji University Senior Industrial Vocational School in 1935 and known as Tongji Gaogong, the school moved inland with the university in 1937 and returned to Jiangwan in 1946.该校 1935 年改名为国立同济大学附设高级工业职业学校，简称「同济高工」，1937 年随同济大学内迁，1946 年迁回江湾。
• In December 1950 Tongji Gaogong separated from Tongji University, became the Tongji Senior Industrial School under the East China Industry Department, and moved to 200 Zhongshan North Road in Nanjing in July 1951.1950 年 12 月，同济高工脱离同济大学，改称同济高级工业学校，隶属华东工业部，1951 年 7 月迁至南京中山北路 200 号。
• In 1953 the school split: its civil engineering section became Nanjing Architectural Engineering School on the same site, while its mechanical section formed the Nanjing Machine Manufacturing School.1953 年，学校分拆：以土木科为基础在同一校址建立南京建筑工程学校，以机械科为基础组建南京机器制造学校。
• In May 1980 Nanjing Architectural Engineering School was upgraded and renamed Nanjing Architectural Engineering College, and in 1998 it won master's programmes in geotechnical and structural engineering.1980 年 5 月，南京建筑工程学校升格并更名为南京建筑工程学院，1998 年获岩土工程与结构工程两个硕士学位授予点。
• In June 1999 the college leased 80 mu at Cangboyuan in Qilin, Jiangning, moving students there in September, and in February 2000 it passed from the Ministry of Construction to Jiangsu Province.1999 年 6 月，学院租用江宁麒麟沧波门 80 亩土地设沧波园校区，9 月部分学生入驻，2000 年 2 月主管部门由建设部变更为江苏省。
• In February 2001 the Ministry of Education approved the renaming of Nanjing University of Chemical Technology as Nanjing Tech University, and in May it approved the merger with Nanjing Architectural Engineering College.2001 年 2 月，教育部批准南京化工大学更名为南京工业大学，同年 5 月又批准其与南京建筑工程学院合并为新的南京工业大学。
• The merged university taught seven discipline categories, held two postdoctoral stations, two first-level and nine second-level doctoral points, 24 master's points and 47 undergraduate programmes across 24 schools and seven campuses on 2,900 mu.合并后的学校涵盖 7 个学科门类，设 2 个博士后流动站、2 个一级学科博士点与 9 个二级学科博士点、24 个硕士点与 47 个本科专业，有 24 个院系与 7 个校区，占地 2900 亩。
• By 2003 it had 19 schools on seven campuses covering 3,700 mu with more than 600,000 square metres of buildings, and in December 2006 the Jiangsu Institute of Materia Medica, founded in 1962, was merged into it.到 2003 年，学校设 19 个院部，7 个校区占地 3700 亩，建筑面积 60 多万平方米；2006 年 12 月，成立于 1962 年的江苏省药物研究所并入。
• In 2012 the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Jiangsu signed a framework agreement to co-build the university, and in September 2021 the province placed it in Class A of its peak plan.2012 年，住房和城乡建设部与江苏省签署协议共建南京工业大学；2021 年 9 月，学校被江苏省列入高水平大学建设高峰计划 A 类。

Academics

• As of October 2026 the university is organised into 11 divisions and 29 schools, with Pujiang College operating as its independent college and a separate Institute of Advanced Materials.截至 2026 年 10 月，学校设 11 个学部、29 个学院，另有独立学院浦江学院与先进材料研究院。
• Its disciplines cover ten categories, engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law, medicine, art, education and interdisciplinary studies, though engineering dominates enrolment and research income.学校学科覆盖工学、理学、管理学、经济学、文学、法学、医学、艺术学、教育学与交叉学科 10 个门类，但工程类仍占招生与科研经费的主体。
• Chemical engineering and technology is its one national first-level key discipline, supported by nine postdoctoral stations, nine first-level doctoral programmes and three professional doctoral programmes.化学工程与技术是学校唯一的国家一级重点学科，支撑它的有 9 个博士后流动站、9 个一级学科博士点与 3 个博士专业学位点。
• Master's training runs through 32 first-level and 21 professional master's programmes, and the university teaches more than 40,000 students with about 3,300 staff, of whom 10 are academicians.硕士培养覆盖 32 个一级学科硕士点与 21 个硕士专业学位点，全校学生 4 万余人，教职工近 3300 人，其中两院院士 10 人。
• The university is a lead institution of the 2011 Plan, the scheme that funds collaborative innovation centres rather than individual laboratories, and its materials-oriented chemical engineering laboratory is a national key laboratory.学校是「2011 计划」牵头高校，该计划资助的是协同创新中心而非单个实验室，其材料化学工程实验室为全国重点实验室。
• Three national platforms anchor applied research: the National Biochemical Engineering Technology Research Center, the National Special Separation Membrane Engineering Technology Research Center and the materials-oriented chemical engineering key laboratory.三个国家级平台支撑其应用研究：国家生化工程技术研究中心、国家特种分离膜工程技术研究中心与材料化学工程全国重点实验室。
• Newer units include the Advanced Lightweight High-Performance Materials Research Centre and the Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute, both listed among its research bodies in 2026.较新的机构包括先进轻质高性能材料研究中心与智能制造研究院，两者均列入学校 2026 年的科研机构清单。
• Chemical engineering is taught in the College of Chemical Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, with materials science, safety science and environmental engineering in separate schools.化工教学由化工学院与化学与分子工程学院承担，材料科学、安全科学与环境工程则各自设院。
• Mechanical and power engineering, energy science, electrical engineering and control science, and pharmaceutical sciences form the second cluster of applied schools.机械与动力工程、能源科学、电气工程与控制科学以及药学构成第二个应用学科群。
• Civil engineering, transportation engineering, urban construction, architecture and art and design continue the architectural lineage of the 1915 vocational school and the 1953 architectural college.土木工程、交通运输工程、城市建设、建筑与艺术设计诸学院延续了 1915 年职业学校与 1953 年建筑学校的建筑学科脉络。
• Biotechnology and pharmaceutical engineering, food science and light industry, computer science, physical and mathematical sciences, and geomatics complete the teaching map.生物与制药工程、食品与轻工、计算机科学、数理科学以及测绘科学与技术诸学院构成教学版图的其余部分。
• Economics and management, law, Marxism, foreign languages and literature, physical education and overseas education handle the non-technical side of the curriculum.经济与管理、法学、马克思主义、外国语言文学、体育与海外教育等学院承担非技术类课程。
• The university holds Grade A architectural design, Grade B engineering survey and Grade A construction supervision qualifications through its design institute, which was founded in 1983 and incorporated in 2021.学校通过其设计研究院持有建筑工程设计甲级、工程勘察乙级与建设工程监理甲级资质，该院成立于 1983 年，2021 年改制为公司。
• The Jiangsu Drug Research Institute, founded in 1962 as the Nanjing Drug Research Institute, and the Lighting Materials Institute, founded in 1980, remain university-owned research companies.1962 年成立的江苏省药物研究所（原名南京药物研究所）与 1980 年成立的电光源材料研究所，至今仍是学校下属的研究型企业。
• Doctoral supervision is concentrated in chemical engineering, materials and safety science, and the university's 2011 Plan centre links these fields with industry partners.博士生导师主要分布在化工、材料与安全科学领域，学校的「2011 计划」协同创新中心把这些学科与产业伙伴连接起来。
• Teaching is largely in Chinese, and the College of Overseas Education handles international students and joint programmes.教学以中文为主，海外教育学院负责留学生与国际合作项目。

Campus

• Four campuses remain in use in 2026, Jiangpu, Dingjiaqiao, Hongqiao and Shimenkan, after the Cangboyuan and Pukou sites were abandoned.2026 年学校在用四个校区：江浦、丁家桥、虹桥与石门坎，沧波园与浦口两个校区已废弃。
• Jiangpu campus at 30 Puzhu South Road in Pukou District covers 240 hectares, or 3,600 mu, and was begun in 1997 as the new campus of Nanjing University of Chemical Technology.江浦校区位于浦口区浦珠南路 30 号，占地 240 公顷（3600 亩），1997 年作为南京化工大学的新校区开始建设。
• Dingjiaqiao campus at 5 Xin Mofan Road in Gulou District covers 24.57 hectares and occupies the former Nanjing Proving Ground, later the agriculture college of National Central University and then Nanjing Agricultural College.丁家桥校区位于鼓楼区新模范马路 5 号，占地 24.57 公顷，其地原为南京劝业场，后为国立中央大学农学院与南京农学院所在地。
• Nanjing Agricultural College moved to Weigang in 1958, and Nanjing Chemical Engineering Institute took over the Dingjiaqiao site in the same year.1958 年南京农学院迁往卫岗，南京化工学院同年迁入丁家桥校址。
• Hongqiao campus at 200 Zhongshan North Road in Gulou was the old site of Nanjing Architectural Engineering College, covering 150 mu before 2001 and 41,500 square metres in 2025.虹桥校区位于鼓楼区中山北路 200 号，是南京建筑工程学院的老校区，2001 年并入前占地 150 余亩，2025 年为 41500 平方米。
• Shimenkan campus at 20-1 Haifu Lane in Qinhuai District was converted in March 2025 into the Qinhuai Silicon Alley Wuwu digital culture industrial park.石门坎校区位于秦淮区海福巷 20-1 号，2025 年 3 月改建为秦淮硅巷·南工大无为数字文化产业园并投入运营。
• Cangboyuan campus at 139 Cangbomen in Qilin, Jiangning, was leased at 80 mu in 1999, had grown to 107 mu by 2000 and has since been given up.沧波园校区位于江宁区麒麟镇沧波门 139 号，1999 年签约时占地 80 亩，2000 年一期建成时扩大到 107 亩，现已废弃。
• Pukou campus at 18 Fuxing Road in Yanjiang, Pukou, covered more than 300 mu and housed Pujiang College before it too was abandoned.浦口校区位于浦口区沿江镇复兴路 18 号，占地 300 余亩，曾是浦江学院所在地，后同样废弃。
• The 2001 merger inherited seven campuses and 2,900 mu, and by 2003 the university reported 3,700 mu and more than 600,000 square metres of floor space.2001 年合并时学校继承 7 个校区、2900 亩土地，到 2003 年已增至 3700 亩、建筑面积 60 多万平方米。
• Jiangpu sits at the foot of the Laoshan national forest park and inside the Pukou university town, while Dingjiaqiao and Hongqiao lie on the New Model Road university belt in the old city.江浦校区位于老山国家森林公园脚下、浦口大学城内，丁家桥与虹桥校区则地处老城新模范马路高校群。
• The university's main library, with about 1.5 million volumes at the time of the merger, serves all four sites.学校图书馆在合并时藏书约 150 万册，为四个校区提供服务。

Reputation

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places Nanjing Tech University in the 201-300 band, its highest position among the global tables.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把南京工业大学列入第 201-300 名区间，这是它在全球榜单中的最好位置。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 puts it in the 701-800 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 701-800 名区间。
• U.S. News ranks it 609th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 609 位。
• The university does not appear in the QS World University Rankings 2027, so its profile rests on ARWU, THE and U.S. News, three tables whose methodologies differ sharply.该校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，因此其国际位次只能依据软科、泰晤士与 U.S. News 三项，而这三张榜单的方法差异很大。
• Its national standing comes from the 2011 Plan lead status, the Class A peak plan designation of 2021 and the single national first-level key discipline in chemical engineering and technology.其国内地位来自「2011 计划」牵头高校身份、2021 年高峰计划 A 类认定，以及化学工程与技术这一唯一的国家一级重点学科。
• Nanjing Tech is often confused with Nanjing University and with Nanjing University of Science and Technology, both separate institutions with different histories and administrations.南京工业大学常被与南京大学、南京理工大学混淆，后两者都是历史与隶属关系完全不同的独立高校。
• Its chemical engineering and materials programmes trace a continuous line from the 1958 institute through the 1995 university and the 2001 merger.其化工与材料学科从 1958 年的化工学院，经 1995 年的化工大学，一直延续到 2001 年的合并，脉络连续。
• ARWU's bibliometric measures reward its chemical and materials output, while THE's survey component, which weighs teaching reputation, pulls it into a lower band.软科的文献计量指标有利于其化工与材料产出，而泰晤士偏重教学声誉的调查部分则把它拉到更低的区间。
• The membrane and biochemical engineering centres give it an industrial profile unusual among provincial universities, with research contracted by chemical, pharmaceutical and construction firms.膜技术与生化工程两个中心赋予它省属高校中少见的行业属性，化工、制药与建筑企业常与其签订研究合同。

Student life

• With more than 40,000 students, the university is one of the largest provincial institutions in Jiangsu, and most undergraduates live on the Jiangpu campus in Pukou.学校各类学生 4 万余人，是江苏规模最大的省属高校之一，多数本科生住在浦口江浦校区。
• Students in architecture, art and design and some engineering years work at Dingjiaqiao and Hongqiao, which place them inside the old city rather than the suburban campus.建筑、艺术设计以及部分工科高年级学生在丁家桥与虹桥校区学习，身处老城而非郊区校园。
• Pujiang College recruits separately as an independent college and has its own campus arrangements within the university's former Pukou site.浦江学院作为独立学院单独招生，并在学校原浦口校区内安排自己的办学空间。
• The ten discipline categories mean that law, foreign languages, economics, management and art students share a campus culture otherwise dominated by engineering.十个学科门类意味着法学、外语、经济、管理与艺术类学生与工科生共享同一种校园文化。
• Physical education is run by a dedicated school, and the university lists sport among the units of its academic organisation rather than as an extracurricular office.体育教学由专门的体育学院承担，学校把体育列为教学机构而非课外活动部门。
• The shift from seven campuses in 2001 to four in 2026 has concentrated student life at Jiangpu, with the older sites used for specific schools and research institutes.校区从 2001 年的 7 个缩减到 2026 年的 4 个，学生生活因此集中于江浦，老校区只承担特定学院与研究所。
• Because the university owns its design institute, drug research institute and lighting materials institute, some postgraduate students work on contracted projects inside those companies.学校拥有自己的设计研究院、药物研究所与电光源材料研究所，部分研究生在这些企业内参与合同项目。
• Jiangpu's position at the foot of Laoshan and inside the Pukou university town gives students access to a cluster of neighbouring institutions and to the forest park.江浦校区位于老山脚下、浦口大学城内，学生因此邻近多所高校与森林公园。

Notable people

• Shi Jun, a chemical engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, taught at Nanjing Chemical Engineering Institute and is remembered as a founder of chemical engineering education in China.化学工程专家、中国科学院院士时钧曾在南京化工学院任教，被视为中国化工教育的奠基人之一。
• Tang Mingshu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, built the university's cement and concrete durability research, a field that remains one of its strongest applied areas.中国工程院院士唐明述在学校建立了水泥与混凝土耐久性研究，这一方向至今仍是其最强的应用领域之一。
• Ouyang Pingkai, a biochemical engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was president from 2001 to 2012 and led the National Biochemical Engineering Technology Research Center.生物化工专家、中国工程院院士欧阳平凯 2001 年至 2012 年任校长，并主持国家生化工程技术研究中心。
• Xu Nanping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in ceramic membranes, founded the university's membrane research and later served as vice-governor of Jiangsu and vice-minister of science and technology.陶瓷膜专家、中国工程院院士徐南平开创了学校的膜技术研究，后任江苏省副省长与科技部副部长。
• Huang Wei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in organic electronics, was president from 2012 to 2017 before moving to Northwestern Polytechnical University.有机电子学专家、中国科学院院士黄维 2012 年至 2017 年任校长，此后转任西北工业大学。
• Ying Hanjie, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in biochemical engineering, works on industrial biotechnology at the university's biochemical engineering centre.生物化工专家、中国工程院院士应汉杰在学校生化工程中心从事工业生物技术研究。
• Jin Wanqin, a membrane scientist, works on ceramic and polymeric separation membranes connected to the National Special Separation Membrane Engineering Technology Research Center.膜科学家金万勤研究陶瓷膜与聚合物分离膜，其工作与国家特种分离膜工程技术研究中心相关。
• Lu Xiaohua, a professor of chemical engineering thermodynamics, works on the molecular modelling of fluids and interfaces within the materials-oriented chemical engineering programme.化工热力学教授陆小华在材料化学工程方向从事流体与界面的分子模拟研究。
• The Tongji Gaogong lineage that became Nanjing Architectural Engineering College produced the teaching staff who shaped the university's architecture and civil engineering schools after 2001.由同济高工演变为南京建筑工程学院的那条脉络，为 2001 年后的建筑与土木学院输送了骨干师资。