Nankai University

Overview

Nankai University

Nankai University (NKU or Nankai) is a public research university in Tianjin, China. It was established in 1919 initially as a private institution. In 1946, it became a national university. During the 1980s, it was among the first Chinese institutions to allow American students to study on their campuses. It currently is a Class A Double First Class University and a member institution of Project 211 and Project 985 group of elite Chinese universities.

Nankai University Key Statistics

The university comprises 28 colleges, institutes, and schools, such as the Zhou Enlai School of Government Administration, TEDA Biotechnology School, College of Artificial Intelligence, TEDA Biotechnology School, School of Mathematical Sciences, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, and the College of Ideological and Cultural Education.

NKU’s academic units offer a total of 80 undergraduate, 231 master’s, and 172 doctoral programs. Nankai also has 28 post-doctoral research stations and its economics, business, history, chemistry, and mathematics programs are considered among the best in China.

Nankai University's student population is approximately 24,525 full-time students, composed of 13,067 undergraduates, 8,162 postgraduates, and 3,296 Ph.D. students. It also has 1,986 full-time academic staff and three campuses: TEDA, Jinnan, and Balitai.

The other Nankai University key statistics include its being ranked as one of the top 10 universities in China, 62nd in Asia, and 83rd worldwide. It is also the 35th member of The Global University Leaders Forum in 2012.

Nankai University Research

The university has extensive international collaborations and exchanges with over 200 universities and academic institutions across the world. Its top fields of research are chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology.

Nankai University research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like ChemInform, Angewandte Chemie, and Advanced Materials, Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

The most cited Nankai University research publication is Klionsky et al.’s (2012) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy.” This was published in Autophagy and has been cited 7,846 times to date.

The university’s second most cited publication is the more recent Klionsky et al. report, “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition),” which was published in 2021 also in Autophagy and has received a total of 7,781 citations.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Becerril et al.’s (2008) “Evaluation of solution-processed reduced graphene oxide films as transparent conductors.” This was published in ACS Nano and has been cited 3,346 times so far.

Nankai University has numerous provincial, ministerial, and national research and teaching centers, institutes, and laboratories. Some of these are the TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology (Ministry of Education), and the State Key Laboratory of Element-Organic Chemistry.

Nankai has founded a total of nine Confucius Institutes around the world and has affiliations with several Nobel laureates, such as Chen Ning Yang, Robert Engle, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Reinhard Selten.