Nanjing Tech University

Overview

Nanjing Tech University

Nanjing Tech University (NJTech) is a public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Its foundations can be traced back to 1902 with the founding of Sanjiang Normal School. It underwent several structural and name changes until it became Nanjing University of Technology in 2001 and assumed its current name in 2014. NJTech is among the pioneering institutions of higher education for training “Excellent Engineers” under the Chinese Ministry of Education program.

Nanjing Tech University Key Statistics

The university comprises 26 colleges that offer more than 70 fields of study. These academic units include College of Urban Construction and Safety Engineering, College of Industrial and Artistic Design, College of Food Science and Light Industry, and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

NJTech offers 80 undergraduate programs, 126 postgraduate programs, and 35 doctorate programs, including 5 post-doctorate stations. These programs fall under eight major branches of learning, namely, medicine, philosophy, law, liberal arts, economics, management, science, and engineering.

Nanjing Tech University's student population is approximately 27,000, with around 22,000 undergraduates and 4,500 postgraduates. It employs 2,800 academic staff and operates two campuses, the main Jiangpu campus and the Mofan Road campus.

The other Nanjing Tech University key statistics are its notable alumni who are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences such as Lou Nanquan, Liang Xiaotian, and Min Enze.

Nanjing Tech University Research

NJTech has an internationally recognized research tradition. It has completed over 5,000 scientific research programs to date, mainly involving projects from the State Natural Science Foundation, the 863 Program, and the 973 Program. Its top fields of research are materials science, chemistry, and chemical engineering.

Nanjing Tech University research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Communications, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry. Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as ACL: Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ICLR: International Conference on Learning Representations, and JCIS: Joint International Conference on Information Sciences.

The most cited Nanjing Tech University research publication is Huang et al.'s (2013) “Enhancing solar cell efficiency: the search for luminescent materials as spectral converters.” This article was published in the Chemical Society Reviews and has been cited 1,430 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is Wang et al.'s (2014) “Heteroatom-doped graphene materials: Syntheses, properties and applications,” which was also featured in the Chemical Society Reviews and has received 1,255 citations to date.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Tao et al.'s (2014) “Thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials towards the breakthrough of organoelectronics,” which was published in Advanced Materials and has received 1,175 citations.

In addition, Nanjing Tech University has a broad range of research portfolio that include five national scientific research platforms, 24 research centers, and 24 key laboratories at the ministerial and provincial levels. Some of its major research facilities include the National Research & Development Center for Heat Pipe Technology, the National Center for International Research of Flexible Electronics, and the National Engineering Research Center for Biotechnology.

NJTech also houses the National Engineering Research Center for Special Membrane Separation Technology, the State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, and a National Science Park.