Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

The Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications is a provincial public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, centred on engineering and distinguished by electronics and information technology, with science, economics, management, humanities, education, art and law alongside.南京邮电大学是位于江苏南京的省属公立大学，以工学为主体、电子信息为特色，理、工、经、管、文、教、艺、法等多学科交融发展。

It descends from a wartime postal training class opened in Shandong in 1942, became the Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in 1958 and took its present name in 2005, and it holds Double First-Class status in electronic science and technology.学校源自 1942 年在山东创办的战时邮务干部训练班，1958 年成立南京邮电学院，2005 年更名为现名，并以电子科学与技术入选国家「双一流」建设学科。

It was placed in the 301-400 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, ranked 688th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027, and entered neither the QS World University Rankings 2027 nor the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 301-400 名区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 688 名，未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名和 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。

History

• The university's earliest predecessor was the wartime postal administration cadre training class, founded in 1942 in the Binhai anti-Japanese base area of Shandong and counted among the Party and army's first systematic schools for communications personnel.学校最早的前身是 1942 年创办于山东滨海抗日根据地的战时邮务总局干部训练班，是党和军队早期系统培养通信人才的学校之一。
• From 1942 to 1947 Zhao Zhigang, then head of the wartime general postal administration, served concurrently as head teacher of the class and principal of the school that grew from it.1942 年至 1947 年间，训练班主任及此后学校的校长均由时任战邮总局局长赵志刚兼任。
• In July 1945 the training class was expanded into a postal school, which was later called the Posts and Telecommunications Training Department of Shandong University and the Shandong Postal School as its site moved around southern Shandong.1945 年 7 月，训练班扩建为「战邮」学校，此后曾称山东大学邮电专科部及山东邮政专科学校，校址辗转于鲁南、临沂、五莲等地。
• In 1948 the school was formally named the East China Posts and Telecommunications School at Yidu, now Qingzhou, under the East China General Administration of Posts and Telecommunications.1948 年，学校在益都（今青州）定名为华东邮电学校，隶属当时的华东邮电管理总局。
• In August 1949 it moved south with the advancing army from Jinan in Shandong to Nanjing, the city where it has remained ever since.1949 年 8 月，学校随解放大军南下，从山东济南迁至南京，此后一直扎根于此。
• In December 1950 it was enlarged into the Nanjing School of Posts and Telecommunications, directly under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and it ran both secondary and higher vocational classes.1950 年 12 月，学校扩建为直属邮电部的南京邮电学校，兼办中等专业和高等专科班。
• Between November 1951 and April 1953 it was placed under the East China Posts and Telecommunications Administration and renamed the East China Posts and Telecommunications School.1951 年 11 月至 1953 年 4 月，学校一度改隶华东邮电管理局，并改名为华东邮电学校。
• In 1954 the institution divided into two ministry schools, the Nanjing Telecommunications School and the Nanjing Postal School.1954 年，学校发展分立为邮电部南京电信学校和南京邮政学校。
• Between 1948 and 1958 the school was led in succession by Sheng Tong, Geng Guoxing, Cao Danhui, the East China posts administration head who served concurrently as principal, Liu Yantian, Li Xuefeng, Shen Yili, Yu Jiang and Liu Weiyi.1948 年至 1958 年间，先后担任学校主要领导的有盛同、耿国兴、曹丹辉（华东邮电管理局局长兼任校长）、刘砚田、李雪枫、沈毅力、于江、刘维毅等。
• In August 1958 the State Council approved the creation of the Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.1958 年 8 月，经国务院批准，邮电部设立南京邮电学院。
• In September 1958 the new institute enrolled 194 five-year undergraduates in radio communications and telegraph and telephone communications, together with 48 telecommunications college students.1958 年 9 月，新成立的学院招收无线电通信及电报电话通信两个专业的五年制本科生 194 名和电信专科生 48 名。
• Qin Huali served as the first party secretary and president of the institute, leading it through its early years as a ministry-run engineering school.秦华礼出任学院首任党委书记兼院长，带领这所部属工科院校走过创建初期。
• Other early leaders of the institute included Qin Jianqiu, Guo Xiangyun, Wang Hongbin and Zheng Weiwei, who steered it through its founding decades of engineering education for the ministry.学院早期的主要领导人还有秦剑秋、郭祥云、王洪滨、郑薇薇等，他们带领学院走过为邮电部办工科教育的创建岁月。
• From May 1972 to February 1973 the institute was briefly renamed the Nanjing Telecommunications Engineering College during the Cultural Revolution.1972 年 5 月至 1973 年 2 月，学院在「文革」期间一度更名为南京电信工程学院。
• The institute was a key university directly under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and, after March 1999, under its successor the Ministry of Information Industry.学院原为邮电部直属重点高校，1999 年 3 月之后改隶其继任机构信息产业部。
• In February 2000, after the national reform of university governance, it became jointly administered by the central and provincial governments with Jiangsu taking the leading role.2000 年 2 月，全国高校领导体制改革后，学校实行中央与地方共建、以江苏省管理为主。
• In July 2001 the former Jiangsu Posts and Telecommunications School was merged into the institute, adding a secondary-level teaching tradition to the degree programmes.2001 年 7 月，原江苏省邮电学校并入南京邮电学院，为学历教育增添了中等专业教学的渊源。
• In April 2005, on the application of the Jiangsu government and with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the institute was renamed the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.2005 年 4 月，经江苏省人民政府申请并报教育部批准，南京邮电学院更名为南京邮电大学。
• In March 2009 its Wujiang vocational college separated and became the Suzhou Information Vocational Technology College, an independent institution.2009 年 3 月，南京邮电大学吴江职业技术学院脱离学校，独立为苏州信息职业技术学院。
• In 2013 the Nanjing College for Population Management was merged into the university, adding population studies and social policy to its portfolio.2013 年，原南京人口管理干部学院正式并入南京邮电大学，为其学科版图增添了人口研究与社会政策方向。
• In September 2017 the university entered the first batch of Double First-Class institutions with electronic science and technology as its designated discipline, and it was reselected in the second round in February 2022.2017 年 9 月，学校以电子科学与技术为建设学科入选国家首批「双一流」高校，并于 2022 年 2 月再次入选第二轮建设名单。

Academics

• The university describes itself as engineering-led with an information and electronics character, and its disciplines interlock across science, engineering, economics, management, humanities, education, art and law.学校以工学为主体、以电子信息为特色，理、工、经、管、文、教、艺、法等学科相互交融。
• Teaching is organised into 21 schools and departments plus one independent college, covering communications, electronics, computing, automation, materials, science, media, management and the humanities.学校设有 21 个学院（系）和 1 个独立学院，覆盖通信、电子、计算机、自动化、材料、理学、传媒、管理和人文等领域。
• Its communications and information engineering school, electronic and optical engineering school and flexible electronics school form the core of its teaching in transmission, circuits and display technology.通信与信息工程学院、电子与光学工程学院及柔性电子（未来技术）学院构成学校在传输、电路与显示技术方面的教学核心。
• An integrated circuits school, a computer school with software and cyberspace security divisions, an automation and artificial intelligence school, a materials school and an Internet of Things school complete the engineering side.集成电路科学与工程学院、计算机学院（含软件学院与网络空间安全学院）、自动化学院与人工智能学院、材料科学与工程学院和物联网学院构成工科的另一翼。
• The school of science, the school of geography and biological information and the modern postal school, which runs a postal express training centre and a modern postal research institute, give the university its distinctive applied profile.理学院、地理与生物信息学院以及现代邮政学院（下设邮政快递培训中心与现代邮政研究院）赋予学校鲜明的应用特色。
• Media and art, management, economics, Marxism, society and population, foreign languages, education science and technology, overseas education, physical education and continuing education make up the rest of the teaching structure.传媒与艺术学院、管理学院、经济学院、马克思主义学院、社会与人口学院、外国语学院、教育科学与技术学院、海外教育学院、体育部和继续教育学院构成教学结构的其余部分。
• The Bell Honors School selects high-achieving undergraduates for an accelerated programme, and Tongda College in Yangzhou operates as the university's independent college.贝尔英才学院选拔优秀本科生实施强化培养，位于扬州通达学院则是学校的独立学院。
• Its degree ladder runs from bachelor's and master's programmes to doctoral study and postdoctoral research, a structure the university describes as coordinated across all levels.学校形成博士后、博士、硕士、本科等多层次协调发展的培养体系。
• Electronic science and technology is the Double First-Class discipline, selected in 2017 and confirmed again in 2022, and it anchors the university's research identity.电子科学与技术是学校的「双一流」建设学科，2017 年入选、2022 年再次确认，也是学校科研身份的支点。
• The university was a member of the first batch of the national 2011 Collaborative Innovation Plan and participates in the 111 Programme for international academic exchange.学校入选国家首批「2011 计划」建设高校，并参与国家「111 计划」建设。
• It is the first academic member of the International Telecommunication Union, a status that places it inside the standard-setting body for global telecommunications.学校是国际电信联盟的首个学术成员，这一身份使其进入全球电信标准制定机构之中。
• It also takes part in the Ministry of Education's Excellence Engineer Education and Training Programme and in Jiangsu's high-level university construction scheme.学校还入选教育部「卓越工程师教育培养计划」和江苏省高水平大学建设序列。
• Two independent research institutes, one for information materials and nanotechnology and one for signal processing and transmission, lead its laboratory work.学校设信息材料与纳米技术研究院、信号处理与传输研究院两个独立设置的研究院，牵头开展实验研究。
• Seven research institutes cover information network technology, communications technology, optical communications, computer technology, higher education, electronic commerce and e-government, and information law and intellectual property.7 个研究所分别研究信息网络技术、通信技术、光通信、计算机技术、高等教育、电子商务与政务，以及信息法律与知识产权。
• Four research centres work on control and intelligent technology, applied mathematics, digital media and microfluidic optical technology.4 个研究中心分别从事控制与智能技术、应用数学、数字媒体和微流控光学技术研究。
• Two provincial engineering centres specialise in optical communication engineering technology and in communication and network technology.学校建有江苏省光通信工程技术研究中心和江苏省通信与网络技术工程研究中心两个省级工程中心。
• The university runs 25 teaching institutions in all, and a new campus in Wuxi is under construction to extend its teaching capacity beyond Nanjing.学校共有 25 个教学机构，并在无锡建设新校区，以把办学容量扩展到南京之外。
• Its overseas education school, together with the ITU academic membership, supports its recruitment of international students and its participation in standards work.海外教育学院与国际电信联盟学术成员身份相辅相成，支撑学校的国际学生招生与标准工作参与。
• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications is listed by the university as a sister institution, reflecting the close ties between China's two postal and telecommunications universities.学校将北京邮电大学列为友好学校，反映中国两所邮电高校之间的密切关系。

Campus

• The university has four campuses, at Xianlin, Sanpailou, Suojincun and Jiangning, and also runs a teaching point in Pukou District.学校现有仙林、三牌楼、锁金村、江宁四个校区，并在浦口区设有办学点。
• The Sanpailou campus, the oldest of the group, has a plane-tree avenue that leads to a wall bearing the university motto.三牌楼校区是各校区中历史最久的一个，主干道两旁种满高大的法国梧桐，路尽头可见校训照壁。
• Glasses Lake and Sanhao Pavilion stand inside the Sanpailou campus, ringed by a wisteria corridor and trees that flower in spring.三牌楼校区内有眼镜湖与三好亭，湖畔环绕着春季开花的紫藤长廊与绿树。
• The Xianlin campus serves as the main site for undergraduate teaching, while Jiangning and Suojincun carry parts of the university's research and continuing education work.仙林校区是本科教学的主要场所，江宁与锁金村校区则承担部分科研与继续教育职能。
• A campus in Wuxi is under construction, the first time the university has built outside Nanjing since it moved south in 1949.学校正在建设无锡校区，这是其 1949 年南迁以来首次在南京以外兴建校区。
• Tongda College, the independent college, is located in Yangzhou rather than on any of the Nanjing campuses.独立学院通达学院设在扬州，并不在南京的任何一个校区内。
• With 25 teaching institutions distributed across four campuses and a Pukou teaching point, the university operates a multi-site estate rather than a single concentrated campus.25 个教学机构分布于四个校区和浦口办学点，学校因此呈现多校区办学而非单一集中校园的格局。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places NJUPT in the 301-400 band.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将南京邮电大学列于第 301-400 名区间。
• It stood 688th in the U.S. News global university ranking for 2026-2027.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中，该校位列第 688 名。
• The university was not listed in the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• It was also absent from the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校同样未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• Its Double First-Class status, first awarded in 2017 and renewed in 2022, rests on electronic science and technology.学校的「双一流」身份 2017 年首次获得、2022 年续入，依托的是电子科学与技术学科。
• In 2019 the Shanghai Ranking placed it 76th among Chinese universities, the highest national position it has reached.2019 年，软科的中国大学排名将该校列于全国第 76 位，这是其达到的最高国内位次。
• As the first academic member of the International Telecommunication Union, it holds a position no other Chinese university has held.作为国际电信联盟的首个学术成员，学校拥有中国其他高校未曾获得的身份。
• Membership of the 2011 Plan, the 111 Programme and the Excellence Engineer Programme marks it out among Jiangsu's provincial universities.入选「2011 计划」「111 计划」和「卓越工程师教育培养计划」，使该校在江苏省属高校中格外突出。
• In 2021 it was selected for Class A of Jiangsu's high-level university construction peak plan, the province's top tier of support.2021 年，学校入选江苏高水平大学建设高峰计划 A 类建设高校，进入全省最高一档支持序列。
• Its graduates lead China Telecom, China Unicom and ZTE, an alumni density in the telecommunications industry that few universities can match.该校毕业生执掌中国电信、中国联通和中兴通讯，这种在电信行业的校友密度少有高校能比。

Student life

• In 1997 students won two first prizes and the only Sony Cup awarded at the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest.1997 年，学校学生在全国大学生电子设计竞赛中获得两个一等奖，并夺得全国唯一的「索尼杯」。
• The university kept winning first prizes in that contest in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, and took another first prize in 2017.此后学校在 1999、2001、2003、2005 和 2007 年连续获得该项赛事一等奖，2017 年再获一等奖。
• Its teams have won first prizes in the national mathematical modelling contest every year from 1998 to 2004, taking four first prizes in 2003 alone.1998 至 2004 年，学校代表队每年都在全国高校数学建模竞赛中获一等奖，其中 2003 年一年即获 4 个一等奖。
• The record behind that run includes three first prizes and two second prizes in 2000 and one first prize with four second prizes in 2002, part of an unbroken sequence of annual honours.这一纪录背后还有 2000 年的 3 个一等奖、2 个二等奖和 2002 年的 1 个一等奖、4 个二等奖，构成其连年获奖序列的一部分。
• In the Challenge Cup national competition it won one first prize and two second prizes in 2003, and a first and a third prize in 2005.在全国大学生「挑战杯」竞赛中，学校 2003 年获一等奖 1 个、二等奖 2 个，2005 年获一等奖、三等奖各 1 个。
• Its robot teams won the football robot simulation championship in 2004, finished second at the RoboCup US Open in 2005 and won the Chinese robot contest in 2010 and 2011 with the Apollo 3D team.学校机器人队 2004 年获足球机器人仿真比赛冠军，2005 年获美国公开赛 RoboCup 亚军，「Apollo 3D」队则在 2010 年和 2011 年蝉联中国机器人大赛冠军。
• At the 45th ICPC Asia Shanghai regional in 2021 its teams took two gold and two bronze medals, and at the 46th world finals in Egypt in 2024 they won bronze and placed eleventh.2021 年第 45 届 ICPC 亚洲区域赛（上海）上，学校队伍获金奖 2 项、铜奖 2 项；2024 年第 46 届世界总决赛（埃及）获铜奖，位列第 11 名。
• Students won one first prize and two second prizes in the American MCM and ICM contests in 2004 and three first prizes in 2006, and took the NXP global design competition's Asia-Pacific title and third place worldwide in 2011.学生 2004 年在国际大学生数学建模与交叉学科建模竞赛中获一等奖 1 个、二等奖 2 个，2006 年获一等奖 3 个，2011 年又夺得恩智浦全球科技创新设计大赛亚太区冠军和全球季军。
• The Bell Honors School and the overseas education school give strong undergraduates and international students separate cohorts within the wider student body.贝尔英才学院与海外教育学院分别为优秀本科生和国际学生在全校学生中划出独立群体。
• Because the campuses sit in different parts of Nanjing, student life is organised around individual campus communities rather than a single central square.由于各校区位于南京不同区域，学生生活围绕各自的校园社区展开，而非集中于单一的中心广场。

Notable people

• Zhao Houlin, who graduated in 1975, served as secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union and was the first Chinese to lead the organisation.1975 年毕业的赵厚麟曾任国际电信联盟秘书长，是首位担任该组织最高领导人的中国人。
• Yang Zhen, who took a master's degree in 1988, became vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and served as president of the university.1988 年获硕士学位的杨震后任全国政协副主席，并曾任南京邮电大学校长。
• Yang Zhen is also a specialist in signal and information processing, the field in which he built his academic career.杨震同时是信号与信息处理专家，这也是其学术生涯的根基。
• Ma Junsheng, former head of the State Post Bureau, is one of the university's senior alumni in public administration.原国家邮政局局长马军胜是该校在公共管理领域的资深校友。
• Ke Ruiwen, chairman of China Telecom, and Zhou Deqiang, former general manager of China Telecom and president of the China Institute of Communications, both graduated from the university.中国电信董事长柯瑞文，以及原中国电信总经理、中国通信学会理事长周德强，都毕业于该校。
• Chang Xiaobing, who chaired both China Unicom and China Telecom, studied at the university before entering the industry.曾先后执掌中国联通与中国电信的常小兵，在进入行业之前曾在该校学习。
• Yin Yimin, a 1985 graduate, served as chairman, general manager and president of ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker.1985 年毕业的殷一民曾任中兴通讯股份有限公司董事长、总经理和总裁。
• Fang Rong and Chen Jie, both vice presidents of ZTE, are alumni, as is Wu Min, chairman of the BIGO technology group.中兴通讯副总裁方榕、陈杰是该校校友，BIGO 集团董事长吴珉也是。
• Leng Rongquan, former deputy general manager of China Telecom, He Ning, former executive director of China Mobile Hong Kong, and Zhang Fan, former chief engineer of China Unicom, also studied at the university.原中国电信集团公司副总经理冷荣泉、原中国移动（香港）有限公司执行董事兼副总经理何宁、原中国联合通信有限公司总工程师张范，也都曾在该校学习。
• Zhao Long, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, is another graduate.全国政协常委、江苏省人大常委会副主任赵龙也是该校毕业生。
• The roster of provincial postal and telecommunications administrators published by the university runs to dozens of names, a measure of how deeply it supplied China's communications system.学校公布的各省邮政与通信管理局负责人名单多达数十人，可见其对中国通信系统的输送之深。