China's first international university was the Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST), established in 1992 as a Korean-Chinese joint-venture institution. However, the YUST did not have an independent legal personality.
Following the establishment of YUST and China's accession to the WTO, new legislation was passed in China in 2003 that opened up possibilities for foreign universities to set up campuses in the country with independent legal status. The University of Nottingham Ningbo China was the first Sino-foreign university of its kind to be established under this new legal framework.[5] The university admitted its first students in 2004 for Arts and Social Science subjects.[5]
Its campus was launched on 6 September 2005 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair from Beijing in a broadcast for China Central Television.[7] It was officially opened on 23 February 2006 by British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, in the presence of Chinese education minister Zhou Ji and State Counsellor Chen Zhili.[7]
At the end of 2012, the British Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) went to the University of Nottingham Ningbo China for a quality assessment. In May 2013, QAA released the Quality Assessment report on the university and concluded that the academic level of University of Nottingham Ningbo China and the quality of students were consistent with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.[3]
Academics
UNNC offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes across three primary faculties. Each faculty encompasses a number of schools or departments:
Nottingham University Business School China:[8]
Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management Systems
Department of Finance, Accounting and Economics
Department of International Business and Management
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences:[9]
School of Economics
School of Education and English
School of International Communications
School of International Studies
Language Centre
Faculty of Science and Engineering:[10]
Department of Architecture and Built Environment
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Department of Geographical Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
All programmes are modeled after equivalent programs at the University of Nottingham (UK) and are taught entirely in English.[3] Upon graduation, students are awarded University of Nottingham degrees.[3]
Governance
Presidents
The following have served as President of the university:
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Unless otherwise stated, all the universities and colleges listed are provincial or municipal public universities and colleges. DBC: Double First-Class Construction; 985: Project 985; 211: Project 211; Key: National Key Universities; P+M: provincial and ministerial co-founded universities. Degree: institutions offering degree education; Professional: institutions offering professional training and certificates. Vocational: institutions offering vocational training and diploma. Private: privately founded. Foreign: Sino-foreign cooperative joint universities; Independent: Independent college affiliated to a university; Continuing: Continuing education institutions; Private: Privately founded As of April 2018, there were 108 higher education institutions in Zhejiang, among which 36 were private, and 9 Continuing education institutions.