Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Public SHANGHAI #37 · 2026Double First ClassProject 211

Programs listed192

Majors offered139

Next intakeAutumn 2026

About the university

Founded in October —, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) is one of the first aeronautical colleges and universities founded by the People's Republic of China. In —, it was designated as a national key university by The State Council. In —, it was approved by The State Council to be one of the first universities with the right to confer doctoral degrees in China. In —, it entered the national "211 Project". In —, the Graduate School was approved by the Ministry of Education. In —, it became a key construction university of "985 Project Superior Discipline Innovation Platform". In —, it entered the national "double First-class" construction sequence. The school is now affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In December —, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Civil Aviation Administration of China signed an agreement to jointly build Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In December —, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics was jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Province.

In the 69 years of running the school, the people of Southern Airlines have been adhering to the school tradition of "serving the country by aviation", following the fine school spirit of "unity, frugality, realism and innovation", and practicing the school motto of "Wisdom of all things, charity of the world". At present, the university has developed into a research-oriented university with the characteristics of aviation, aerospace and civil aviation with the emphasis on engineering, the combination of science and engineering, and the coordinated development of engineering, science, economics, management and liberal arts. Schools now it has 189 18 colleges and scientific research institutions, has a national key laboratory of 3 (level), national defense science, technology and industry innovation center, 1 provincial department to build collaborative innovation center, 1 state local joint engineering laboratory 1, the national cultural industry research center 1, 2 national engineering basic course teaching base, four state-level experimental teaching demonstration center. There are 62 undergraduate programs, 33 first-level master's programs, 17 first-level doctoral programs, and 16 post-doctoral research stations. There are 2 first-level state key disciplines such as Aerospace Science and technology and Mechanics, 9 second-level state key disciplines, 2 state key (cultivated) disciplines and 10 national defense characteristic disciplines.

The university now uses the Ming Palace Museum, general Road, Tianmu Lake three campuses, covers an area of — mu, building area of 1.678 million square meters. The University library has collected more than 2.99 million printed documents, 156 Chinese and foreign language databases, and more than 12.7 million electronic and digital documents and information resources. There are — faculty members, including — full-time teachers. There are — full-time faculty members with senior titles, 578 doctoral supervisors, 25 academicians and "Qian Weichang Lecture Professor", 84 national high-level talents, 82 national young talents, and more than 700 people selected into various national and provincial talent programs. The university has a total enrollment of — students, including — undergraduates, — postgraduates, 909 degree overseas students and nearly — students of adult education.

The university has become an important base for training high-level talents. Since its establishment, THE university has trained more than — senior professionals in various fields for the country. Among its alumni, 22 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences, dozens of provincial and ministerial leading party and government cadres and generals, as well as a large number of famous science and technology experts and management experts have emerged. The school is committed to cultivating social pillars and engineering talents with sense of responsibility, innovative spirit, international vision and humanistic feelings. It constantly pushes forward education and teaching reform and gradually establishes an innovative talent training system with The characteristics of SOUTHERN Airlines, and has achieved a number of high-level teaching achievements. A total of 22 national teaching achievement awards; 32 national first-class courses, 11 national high-quality resource sharing courses, 6 National high-quality video open courses; 6 national excellent teaching teams; There are 28 national first-class specialties, 6 national characteristic specialties, 8 key specialties of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 5 key specialties of national Defense, and 3 specialties in short supply. Nanhang students have made remarkable achievements in various competitions at all levels: in the recent three China International "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, they have won 13 gold MEDALS and 6 silver MEDALS, and won the "Advanced Group Award" for three consecutive years. In the "Challenge Cup" National College Students Extracurricular academic Science and Technology works competition, it has won 12 special prizes, 19 first prizes and 16 second prizes, and won the "Cup of Excellence" for nine consecutive times. In the "Challenge Cup" Chinese College students business plan competition, we have won 22 gold MEDALS and 9 silver MEDALS, and won the "Victory Cup" for four consecutive times. In the international UAV Grand Prix, it has won the special prize four times in a row. In the "Zhou Peiyuan Cup" National College Student Mechanics Competition, "China Software Cup" National College Student Software Design Competition, electronic design competition, mechanical Innovation design competition and other competitions, the students of China Southern Airlines have won many times.

The university's scientific research capacity continues to grow. Since its establishment, the university has won nearly — scientific and technological achievement awards at or above the provincial level, including 82 national awards. The university has built 6 national scientific research platforms such as the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Structure Mechanics and Control and 77 ministerial and provincial scientific research platforms, contributing several first prizes to the People's Republic of China. They include China's first unmanned large target drone, its first unmanned nuclear test prototype, its first plateau drone, its first unmanned helicopter and its first micro aerial vehicle. The self-developed Micro satellite Tianxun 1 was successfully launched. In the field of basic research, the school has obtained a number of influential theoretical achievements at home and abroad, such as "helicopter generalized eddy current theory", "nonlinear dynamics theory of vibration control system", "Aircraft manufacturing coordination accuracy and tolerance distribution theory". In the field of national defense science and technology, the university has participated in the pre-research, technical research and experimental research of almost all important aviation models in China, and a number of technologies have been successfully applied in the "Chang 'e" series and other aerospace projects, making important contributions to the development of China's aerospace industry. In the field of national economy, the school is focused on the national major strategic deployment, actively push forward administration manufacture-learning-research cooperation, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, to build "international innovation port + school institute + + technology transfer agency" joint laboratory achievements transformation model, approved by the national technology transfer demonstration agency, the national intellectual property demonstration of colleges and universities, colleges and universities of science and technology achievements transformation and technology transfer center, It provided strong support for economic and social development.

The university vigorously promotes open education, actively carries out collaborative innovation, and has established a number of industry-university-research cooperation research bases. With extensive international exchanges and cooperation, it has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with nearly 100 famous universities and research institutions abroad, forming a new pattern of open education "serving aviation, aerospace and civil aviation, serving Jiangsu, facing the whole country and the world".

As xi and charioteer, aim to pasture the stars in the sky. Entered the new era, China southern will fully implement the party's 19 big spirit, new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics in jinping thoughts as the instruction, the ministry under the leadership of the CPC leading group, jiangsu provincial government, insist on strengthening characteristic road, talent strong school road, the road of innovation, the depth of the open road, the road of culture lead, forge ahead, self-motivated, Unswervingly strive towards the goal of building a world-class university with distinctive features of aviation, aerospace and civil aviation, and make new and greater contributions to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

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