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Ningbo University of Technology is a full-time undergraduate university. Formerly Ningbo College , the university was established in 1983 and confirmed by the Education Ministry in 1997 as a National Exemplary Engineering College , and it was approved by the Ministry of Education in May 2004 as a university offering four-year undergraduate education. Currently the university has a staff of about 700 and nearly 8,000 full-time students.

The university sets the basis of training talents with the characteristic of practicality, serves local economic construction and social development. With the basis in Ningbo , it faces Zhejiang Province and stretches to the whole country. The university tries to achieve three characteristics in running the university --- developing the school into one with more distinguishing features, building up unique specialties, training students with great advantages, and also to make itself a special, nation-wide famous engineering technology university.

Ningbo University of Technology covers an area of 105.765 acres, on which its building area is 204,000 square meters. It has the educational equipments worth ? 6.235 million yuan and the library with 720,000 books. The university has 41 professors and 133 associate professors. The new campus which covers an area of 226.05 acres is under construction now.

Ningbo University of Technology has been developing a mode of “One Leading Ability and Two Subsidiary Capabilities”, which means priority is given to students one practical ability, while importance is also laid to its students' multi-and-foreign-oriented capabilities. The graduates are favorably welcome by all employing units locally. The employment rate is always above 90%. The university sets the standard of “firm basis, broadened knowledge, high comprehensive quality and strong practicality” to train more high-level skilled talents.

Ningbo University of Technology appropriately adjusts the specialties setup and broadens the scale according to the market needs. It gives priority to the majors of engineering, meanwhile coordinately developing various other majors and nurturing subjects with special characteristics. Now it has 10 second-level schools, 12 undergraduate majors, and 33 associate degree majors. It also has one provincial-level key specialty, 4 city-level leading laboratories and more than 10 scientific research institutes. The university lays great importance on the building of study, increases the development on scientific research bases and scientific research personnel, devotes major efforts to applied scientific and technological researches and development, actively improves the integration of production teaching and researches. In the past three years, the university took 85 city-level scientific research programs. It gains 18 ? million yuan as the research funds annually, and each year about 825 academic articles and books are published. The application of the achievements in those scientific researches marked great success.

Ningbo University of Technology has conducted many foreign cooperation programs so as to learn foreign advanced experience and emphasizes to build up foreign-oriented characteristics of the university. It started the cooperation with Aachen Applied Sciences University in Germany in 1984. Therefore, it is one of the four schools in China who have such a relationship with Germany . Since 1984, the university has set up this relationship with the universities and colleges in Australia , Germany , the United States , Canada and other countries to run schools cooperatively, exchange visits of the schools and cooperative researches. The university has also established Ningbo Ninggao Overseas Service Center to help its students to further their studies abroad.

The university tries to set up an all-dimensional, multi-tired campus culture with excellent patterns, high level and quality. It emphasizes on the idea of “Integrating knowledge into actions”, and the function of the educational environment, so as to build up a harmonious and healthy campus culture atmosphere with unique features, and then to improve the students' unified qualities.

1. Short Term Programs: The university runs short term theme study programs all the year round in Chinese Language and Culture, Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, Chinese Literature, Tourism Culture, and so on. The duration for such short term study programs may vary from 2 weeks to 8 weeks, followed by one or two weeks of field trip to major attractions in provinces in China. Courses and duration of study are adjustable upon specific requirements.

2. Long Term Programs: Placement students or students who wish to study Chinese language and culture for over half a year may fit into our beginners program, elementary program, intermediate program or advanced program according to their level of Chinese.

Accommodation

Apartment with two rooms, a bath and a kitchen, air conditioning, refrigerator, telephone, TV, washing machine, internet, etc.

For quadruple occupancy: U.S. $3 per person each day.

For double occupancy: U.S. $5 per person each day.

For single occupancy: U.S. $10 per person each day.

Catering

Dining at the Students' Dining Hall or the Staff's Canteen require approximately U.S. $70 per person each month. Students for short-term programs can be arranged to get meals at the fixed rate of U.S. $6 per person each day.

Zhejiang Ningbo is a transportation hub, land, sea and air, water transportation has developed rapidly, especially in "Eastern port" of reputation at home and abroad of the Beilun port. Lishe Airport and Hong Kong and major cities across the country have set up between the air bridge. Railways, highways, waterways, as well as its convenient transportation connections and the city.

Ningbo has a long history, is a history of 7,000 years of civilization "Hemudu culture," the birthplace. Tang Dynasty, Ningbo has become "Marine Silk Road", one of the starting point, and Yangzhou, and Guangzhou as the three major foreign trade port in China. Song with Guangzhou and Quanzhou foreign trade at the same time as the three major port city. Into after the Opium War, "the five treaty ports" one. Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, today's is the most economically developed cities and the country's 14 municipalities of central planning (sub-provincial level), one of the nation per capita income in the fourth place, the level of consumption ranks second.Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong is an international shipping hub port, an important component of the 79 with the world more than 400 countries and regions, opened a route port.

Ningbo is the birthplace of Chinese businessmen. Is known as "China's smart" Shanghai has 1 / 4 is a native of Ningbo. Compared with the Wenzhou People, Ningbo are more like big business out here, the "shipping" Bao, such as a large number of internationally renowned business tycoons. Therefore, the "big boss Ningbo", "Wenzhou small bosses" of.

Ningbo is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, there are more than 30 million persons residing in Ningbo in the world more than 50 countries and regions. Overseas "Ningbo Gang" has become around the world linking Ningbo with an important bridge and link.

· Short Term Programs: U.S. $ 75 per week, U.S. $ 300 for 4 weeks

· Long Term Programs: U.S. $ 900 per semester