Nanjing Medical University

Nanjing Medical University was founded in 1934, one of the key universities sponsored by Jiangsu Province. The university consists of seventeen schools and one independent school (Kangda School). It has 23 affiliated hospitals and more than fifty teaching hospitals in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Shandong Provinces.

The university has 17 undergraduate programs, 2 six-year dual bachelor's degree programs, and 5 seven-year programs. Currently it has more than 13,000 students. The university has formed a comprehensive and multi-level educational system that covers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as post-doctoral training, for full-time students, adults, and international students. In 2002 the university resumed the admission of international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and it now has more than 500 such students.

Nanjing Medical University is also famous for outstanding research facilities and high qualifying teachers and researchers with extensive research interests and profound knowledge. Today the University has 779 full-time faculties, of whom 178 are professors and 225 are associate professors, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. At present, the University has one state-level key laboratory, four ministry-level key laboratories, and thirteen provincial-level key laboratories (engineering centers).

Nanjing Medical University Library currently has a collection of 850,000 printed resources, 780,000 e-books and over 6,000 Chinese and foreign journals and newspapers. It is the medical literature center of Jiangsu Academic Library & Information System.

In recent years, the university has extensively carried out exchange activities and has actively developed multi-model relationships and cooperation with other colleges and universities. It has established cooperation and academic exchange with medical colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Sweden, Japan, Taiwan Province, and Hong Kong SAR.