Nantong University

Nantong University is a provincial public university in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China, on the north bank of the Yangtze near its mouth, and it is co-funded by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Transport.南通大学是位于中国江苏省南通市的省属公办综合性大学，地处长江入海口北岸，由江苏省人民政府与交通运输部共建。

It was formed in May 2004 by merging Nantong Medical College, Nantong Institute of Technology and Nantong Teachers College, and it traces its medical and textile lineages to schools founded by the industrialist Zhang Jian in 1912.学校于 2004 年 5 月由南通医学院、南通工学院与南通师范学院合并组建，其医学与纺织脉络可追溯到实业家张謇 1912 年创办的专门学校。

In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it sits in the 401-500 band, it is ranked 1,081st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, it did not enter the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027 and it did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位列第 401-500 名区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 1081 名；未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。

History

• In 1912 the industrialist and educator Zhang Jian founded the private Nantong Medical Specialised School and the Nantong Textile Specialised School, the two institutions from which the university descends.1912 年，实业家、教育家张謇创办私立南通医学专门学校与南通纺织专门学校，这两所学校是南通大学的源头。
• The medical school was one of the earliest higher medical schools established in China, and the textile school was the country's first higher textile institution.其中医学专门学校是中国最早创办的高等医学院校之一，纺织专门学校则是中国第一所纺织高等院校。
• In 1927 the medical school became the private Nantong Medical University and the textile school became the Nantong Textile University, each with university status of its own.1927 年，医学专门学校改为私立南通医科大学，纺织专门学校改为南通纺织大学，两校各自取得大学建制。
• In 1928 the agriculture, textile and medical universities of Nantong were merged into the private Nantong University, which organised its teaching into medical, textile and agricultural divisions.1928 年，南通的农、纺、医三所大学合并为私立南通大学，教学按医科、纺织科与农科分设。
• In November 1930 the private Nantong University was renamed Nantong College, the name under which it operated until the Second World War broke up its teaching.1930 年 11 月，私立南通大学改名为南通学院，此名一直沿用到抗日战争打断其教学为止。
• Teaching stopped after the outbreak of the war in the second half of 1937, and in August 1938 the college moved to Shanghai, where its agricultural and textile divisions resumed classes.1937 年下半年抗日战争爆发后学校停课，1938 年 8 月南通学院迁至上海，农科与纺织科恢复上课。
• The medical division did not move with them: it was merged with the Jiangsu Provincial Medical Administration College to form the National Jiangsu Medical College in 1938.医科并未随校迁沪，而是于 1938 年与江苏省立医政学院合并，组建国立江苏医学院。
• In 1952, during the national departmental adjustment, the textile division was moved to Shanghai and merged into the East China Textile Institute, the institution that became Donghua University.1952 年全国院系调整时，纺织科迁往上海并入华东纺织工学院，即后来的东华大学。
• In December 1977 the Jiangsu provincial government approved the re-establishment of textile teaching as the Nantong branch of the Nanjing Institute of Technology, now Southeast University.1977 年 12 月，江苏省人民政府同意复建纺织类教学，成立南京工学院南通分院，南京工学院即今东南大学。
• In September 1995 the State Education Commission approved the change of name from that branch to the Nantong Institute of Technology, a four-year engineering college.1995 年 9 月，经国家教委批准，该分院更名为南通工学院，成为本科层次的工科院校。
• The Nantong Teachers College was founded in 1958 as a junior teachers college, one of the three strands that would later be combined into the university.南通师范专科学校创建于 1958 年，是后来合并组建南通大学的三条脉络之一。
• In March 1999 the Ministry of Education approved the merger of the Nantong Teachers College and the Nantong Education College into a single undergraduate teachers college.1999 年 3 月，经教育部批准，南通师范专科学校与南通教育学院合并组建本科层次的南通师范学院。
• In February 2000 Nantong Medical College passed from the Ministry of Transport to Jiangsu Province under a central-local arrangement led by the province.2000 年 2 月起，南通医学院由隶属交通部划转江苏省管理，实行中央与地方共建、以地方为主的体制。
• In May 2004 the Ministry of Education approved the merger of Nantong Medical College, Nantong Institute of Technology and Nantong Teachers College into Nantong University.2004 年 5 月，经教育部批准，南通医学院、南通工学院与南通师范学院合并组建南通大学。
• Zhang Jian was a late Qing and early republican industrialist who built textile mills and schools in Nantong, and he is treated as the founder of the city's modern education system.张謇是清末民初的实业家，在南通创办纱厂与学校，被视为南通近代教育体系的奠基人。
• His son Zhang Xiaoruo served as president in the 1920s and is listed among the university's notable figures, as is the family's role in the institution's early governance.其子张孝若在 1920 年代担任校长，被列为学校知名人物，张氏家族在学校早期治理中的作用亦被记载。
• In 1928 the university's board of trustees included the educator Li Shizeng, the calligrapher Yu Youren, the general Li Zongren and the industrialist Rong Zongjing.1928 年，学校校董包括教育家李石曾、书法家于右任、将领李宗仁与实业家荣宗敬。
• The historian John King Fairbank of Harvard University described Nantong University as representative of modern China's private science and technology universities.哈佛大学历史学家费正清认为，南通大学是近代中国私立科技大学的代表。
• The university counts 1912 as its founding year, which is why its 120th anniversary is due in 2032 and why that date appears in its long-term development target.学校以 1912 年为建校年份，因此 2032 年为建校 120 周年，这一年份也写入其长期发展目标。
• The 2004 merger created a comprehensive university with medical, engineering and teacher-training traditions in one institution, a combination reflected in its present school structure.2004 年的合并把医学、工科与师范三种传统汇入同一所大学，这一组合体现在今天的学院设置之中。
• The medical line begun in 1912 has remained the university's most distinctive inheritance, carried today by its medical school and its directly affiliated hospital.始于 1912 年的医学脉络始终是学校最具特色的传承，如今由其医学院与直属附属医院延续。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into 20 schools, an independent college named Xinglin College, a directly affiliated tertiary hospital, an international education college and a continuing education college.学校设有 20 个学院、1 个独立学院杏林学院、1 家直属三级甲等医院，以及国际教育学院与继续教育学院。
• The university offers 106 undergraduate programmes, of which 80 admitted students in 2019, across literature, science, engineering, medicine, art, economics, law, education, history and management.学校开设 106 个本科专业（2019 年招生专业 80 个），涵盖文学、理学、工学、医学、艺术学、经济学、法学、教育学、历史学与管理学十个门类。
• Three first-level disciplines confer doctorates: basic medicine, clinical medicine and information and communication engineering.学校有基础医学、临床医学、信息与通信工程 3 个一级学科博士学位授权点。
• Two postdoctoral stations, in basic medicine and clinical medicine, support early-career researchers in the medical sciences.学校设有基础医学与临床医学 2 个博士后科研流动站，为医学领域的青年研究者提供支持。
• Twenty-two first-level master's disciplines and ten professional master's categories complete the graduate programme, which is weighted towards medicine and engineering.学校另有 22 个一级学科硕士点与 10 个硕士专业学位点，研究生教育以医学与工科为重。
• Clinical medicine, neuroscience and behaviour, and engineering all enter the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators ranking.临床医学、神经科学与行为学、工程学 3 个学科进入 ESI 全球排名前 1%。
• Two disciplines hold Jiangsu advantage-discipline status, eight are provincial key disciplines and 26 are provincial clinical key specialties.学校有 2 个江苏省高校优势学科、8 个江苏省重点学科与 26 个江苏省临床医学重点专科。
• The directly affiliated Nantong University Hospital is a large tertiary A general hospital and the main clinical base for the medical school.直属的南通大学附属医院是一所大型三级甲等综合医院，也是医学院的主要临床基地。
• The faculty numbers 3,152, of whom 1,549 hold senior professional titles and more than 1,300 supervise master's or doctoral students.学校有教职工 3152 人，其中高级职称 1549 人，博士、硕士生导师 1300 余人。
• Ten members of the Chinese academies work with the university, nine of them as dual appointments, alongside national talent-programme recruits in medicine, engineering and the sciences.学校有两院院士 10 人（含双聘院士 9 人），并在医学、工学与理学领域拥有多名国家级人才计划入选者。
• Research platforms include a national-local joint engineering research centre, a Ministry of Education key laboratory, a Sinopec key laboratory, provincial laboratories and a Jiangsu collaborative innovation centre.科研平台包括国家地方联合工程研究中心、教育部重点实验室、中石化重点实验室、省级重点实验室与江苏高校协同创新中心。
• Over five years the university undertook nearly 500 national projects, was granted 1,056 invention patents and won national technological invention and Ho Leung Ho Lee awards.五年间学校承担国家级项目近 500 项，获发明专利授权 1056 件，并获得国家技术发明奖、何梁何利基金科学与技术进步奖等奖励。
• Engineering schools include mechanical engineering, transportation and civil engineering, information science and technology, chemistry and chemical engineering, and science.工科与理科方面设有机械工程学院、交通与土木工程学院、信息科学技术学院、化学化工学院与理学院。
• The medical and pharmaceutical schools, the school of medicine and the school of pharmacy, carry the clinical and drug-related teaching inherited from the 1912 medical school.医学院与药学院承担承自 1912 年医学专门学校的临床与药学教学。
• Humanities and social sciences are taught in the schools of Chinese culture and literature, foreign languages, politics, art and education science.人文社科教学由中国语言文化学院、外国语学院、政治学院、艺术学院与教育科学学院承担。
• An Institute of Traffic and an international education school reflect the university's links with the Ministry of Transport and its recruitment of overseas students.交通研究院与国际教育学院体现了学校与交通运输部的联系及其对留学生的招收。
• The university publishes five academic journals, and the Journal of Nantong University in its social sciences edition is a CSSCI source journal and a national Chinese core journal.学校办有 5 种学术期刊，其中《南通大学学报》（社会科学版）为 CSSCI 来源期刊与全国中文核心期刊。
• Its library holds about 2.8 million printed volumes, serving roughly 40,000 undergraduates, 2,700 postgraduates and 750 international students.图书馆藏有纸质图书约 280 万册，服务近 4 万名本科生、2700 余名研究生与 750 余名留学生。
• The undergraduate body includes about 12,000 students enrolled at Xinglin College, the independent college attached to the university.本科生中约有 1.2 万人就读于学校的独立学院杏林学院。
• In 2007 the Ministry of Education rated its undergraduate teaching as excellent, and in 2017 the university passed the ministry's undergraduate teaching audit evaluation with high quality.2007 年学校以优秀成绩通过教育部本科教学工作水平评估，2017 年高质量通过教育部本科教学工作审核评估。
• It has won three national teaching achievement awards at first and second class, and its teaching resources include national characteristic programmes, national teaching teams and national experimental teaching centres.学校获国家级教学成果一、二等奖 3 项，并拥有国家特色专业、国家级教学团队与国家级实验教学示范中心等教学资源。

Campus

• The university occupies four campuses with a total area of more than 3,700 mu and close to one million square metres of building floor space.学校有四个校区，占地 3700 余亩，校舍建筑面积近 100 万平方米。
• The four sites are the new campus, the Qixiu campus, the Zhongxiu campus and the Qidong campus.四个校区分别是新校区、启秀校区、钟秀校区与启东校区。
• Nantong University station on Nantong Metro Line 1 serves the main campus, linking it to the city centre and the railway station.南通轨道交通 1 号线的南通大学站服务主校区，把校园与市中心及火车站连接起来。
• Nantong itself stands on the north bank of the Yangtze close to its mouth, across the river from Shanghai's northern districts.南通位于长江入海口北岸，与上海北部隔江相望。
• The Qidong campus takes its name from Qidong, the county-level city at the eastern end of Nantong's coastline.启东校区因启东而得名，启东是南通海岸线东端的县级市。
• The affiliated hospital stands as a separate large campus of the university's clinical teaching, with beds and outpatient services rather than lecture rooms.附属医院构成学校临床教学的另一处大型场所，以病床与门诊服务而非教室为主。
• The new campus concentrates most undergraduate teaching, while the older Qixiu and Zhongxiu sites hold parts of the university's continuing and professional programmes.新校区集中了大部分本科教学，较旧的启秀与钟秀校区则承担部分继续教育与专业培训项目。
• The four campuses together hold the 20 schools, the library system, the journals office and the research centres described in the university's academic profile.四个校区共同容纳了 20 个学院、图书馆系统、期刊编辑部以及学校学术简介中列出的各研究中心。
• Campus planning has followed the growth of enrolment from a teachers and medical college base to a comprehensive university of some 40,000 full-time students.校园规划随着办学规模从医学与师范院校扩展为拥有约 4 万名全日制学生的综合性大学而不断展开。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed Nantong University in the 401-500 band in 2026, its best result among the major global tables.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将南通大学列入第 401-500 名区间，这是其在主要全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• U.S. News ranked it 1,081st for 2026-2027, while Times Higher Education did not list it in 2027 and it did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度将其列为第 1081 名；泰晤士高等教育 2027 年榜单未收录该校，学校也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• Its co-funding by the Ministry of Transport is unusual for a comprehensive provincial university and reflects the transport and engineering work that grew out of its 1977 revival.由交通运输部共建，对一所省属综合性大学而言并不常见，这与其 1977 年复建后发展起来的交通与工程学科有关。
• Jiangsu Province selected it for the first batch of high-level universities under cultivation, a designation that carries provincial funding for priority disciplines.江苏省将学校列入首批高水平大学建设培育支持高校，这一身份为优先学科带来省级经费支持。
• Since the resumption of the national college entrance examination in 1977, three of its undergraduate alumni have been elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a total tied for 35th nationally.1977 年恢复高考以来，学校共有 3 名本科毕业生当选两院院士，人数并列全国高校第 35 位。
• Its textile lineage as China's first higher textile school underpins the description of the university as the cradle of Chinese textile engineers.作为中国第一所纺织高等院校的传承，使学校被称为「中国纺织工程师的摇篮」。
• The same heritage is sometimes called the Whampoa Military Academy of Chinese textiles, a comparison used in the university's own publicity.这一传承有时被称为中国纺织业的「黄埔军校」，这一比喻见于学校自身的宣传。
• Fairbank's description of the institution as representative of private science and technology universities in modern China is quoted in accounts of its history.费正清关于该校是近代中国私立科技大学代表的评价，被引用于其校史叙述之中。
• The 2017 Essential Science Indicators ranking placed it 118th among Chinese universities, and its social sciences journal is a CSSCI source title.2017 年 ESI 中国大学排名中学校位列第 118 位，其社会科学版学报为 CSSCI 来源期刊。

Student life

• The motto is Bridging China and the West, Striving for the Best, a couplet that dates from the institution's early twentieth-century foundations.校训为「祈通中西，力求精进」，这一表述源自学校二十世纪初的办学传统。
• The university's stated approach to learning is that study must be expected to be used and that its use must suit the locality.学校的办学理念是「学必期于用，用必适于地」。
• Its declared values are beautiful morality and pure scholarship, a pair of phrases used in student ceremonies and in the university's public profile.学校标举的价值追求是「道德优美，学术纯粹」。
• The university describes itself as the birthplace of the Mo Wensui spirit, a Nantong tradition of anonymous giving named after a donor who concealed his identity.学校称自己是「莫文隋」精神的发源地，这一南通传统以一位隐姓埋名的捐助者命名。
• It aims, under a plan known as 8050, to reach the national top 80 by 2023 and the top 50 by 2032, its 120th anniversary.学校提出「8050」奋斗目标：到 2023 年跻身全国 80 强，到 2032 年建校 120 周年时跻身全国 50 强。
• Graduate employment has stayed above 98 percent in recent years, and the university has been named an advanced institution for graduate employment and for entrepreneurship education.近年来学校毕业生就业率保持在 98% 以上，并被评为全国普通高等学校毕业生就业工作先进集体与创业教育先进单位。
• About 750 international students study on campus, and the university has agreements with 102 universities and research institutes abroad, including partners in Europe, North America, Australia and East Asia.学校有约 750 名留学生在校学习，并与 102 所境外高校和科研院所建立合作关系，覆盖欧洲、北美、澳大利亚与东亚。
• Metro line 1 puts the main campus within a short ride of central Nantong, and the four campuses are linked by the city's bus network.地铁 1 号线使主校区距南通市中心只有数站之遥，四个校区之间由城市公交网络连接。

Notable people

• Zhang Jian, the industrialist and educator, founded the medical and textile schools in 1912 and is regarded as the university's founder.实业家、教育家张謇于 1912 年创办医学与纺织专门学校，被视为学校的创办人。
• Zhang Xiaoruo, Zhang Jian's son, served as president in the 1920s and is named among the university's notable figures.张謇之子张孝若在 1920 年代任校长，被列为学校知名人物。
• Li Shizeng, an educator and one of the founders of the Palace Museum, was the university's chief trustee in the late 1920s.教育家、故宫博物院创建人之一李石曾，在 1920 年代末担任学校首席校董。
• Yu Youren, the calligrapher and republican politician, joined the board of trustees in September 1928.书法家、民国政治家于右任于 1928 年 9 月出任校董。
• Li Zongren, the Guangxi commander who later became acting president of the Republic of China, was a trustee in 1928.桂系将领、后任中华民国代总统的李宗仁，于 1928 年担任校董。
• Rong Zongjing, known as China's flour king and cotton yarn king, was another 1928 trustee and the uncle of Rong Yiren.被誉为中国「面粉大王」「棉纱大王」的荣宗敬也是 1928 年的校董，是荣毅仁的伯父。
• Xu Guanren, who entered the agricultural division in 1930, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.1930 年考入农科的徐冠仁，后当选中国科学院院士。
• Yu Songlie, who entered the agricultural division in 1938, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a founder of Chinese wheat cultivation science.1938 年进入农科的余松烈，后当选中国工程院院士，是中国小麦栽培学的奠基人。
• Mei Ziqiang, a 1951 graduate, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering for his work on high-yield carding in cotton spinning.1951 年毕业的梅自强因高产梳棉研究当选中国工程院院士。
• Yao Mu, who entered the textile division in 1948, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in textile materials.1948 年考入纺织科的姚穆，后当选中国工程院纺织材料领域院士。
• Gu Xiaosong, a medical student from 1977 to 1980, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in neurobiology.1977 年至 1980 年就读临床医学的顾晓松，后当选中国工程院神经生物学领域院士。
• Fan Jia, a 1983 medical graduate, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai.1983 年医学专业毕业的樊嘉，后当选中国科学院院士并任复旦大学附属中山医院院长。