The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Internationalisation is a key element of the University of Nottingham’s strategy. The University of Nottingham was the first foreign world-ranked university to gain approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education under the new Sino-Foreign Education Co-operative Law to establish and run a campus within mainland China. It also has a campus in Malaysia. The mission of the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (UNNC) is to match Nottingham UK’s strengths in teaching and research to China’s educational priorities and needs.
UNNC has been admitting students since 2004 and has already seen two generations of undergraduates and three generations of postgraduates obtain their degrees. The University offers degree programmes in International Business and Management, International Studies, International Communications, English Studies, Computer Science, the Built Environment and Engineering. From September 2010 it will offer new undergraduate programmes in Economics and in Architecture.
UNNC has expanded rapidly and is now home to a thriving community of international staff and students as well as those drawn from China. Currently, there are 4,360 students on campus, including more than 400 postgraduates, and the number of students will rise to over 5,000 by September 2010. We recruit undergraduate Chinese students only from the top division of the Chinese university entrance exam.
All degrees are delivered to the same specification as Nottingham UK degrees, and all module assessment is standardised across the University of Nottingham’s campuses in the UK, Malaysia and China. Degrees awarded are degrees of the University of Nottingham, without distinction between the different campuses.
The UNNC campus provides an attractive living and working environment, and is located close to the centre of Ningbo, which has a population of over 6 million people and lies across the estuary from Shanghai. The campus has first-class teaching facilities, enthusiastic students, excellent research opportunities and research links with strongly performing schools at the University of Nottingham UK and at top Chinese universities. The campus has attracted major sponsorship to establish new research centres, including in the fields of Global Finance and Sustainable Development.
In 2006 the University of Nottingham’s innovative internationalisation policies were recognised by a number of prestigious awards including the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade; Outward Investor of the Year by the country's foremost China-Britain trade association; and in the USA it collected an International Business Award (2006) for “Best New Product or Service” for its China campus. The University was named “University of the Year” 2006 by the influential Times Higher Education (THE), the premier higher education journal in the UK.
For more information, please view the website of The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.