North University of China
North University of China (NUC) was founded in 1941, formerly known as Taihang Industrial School, Taiyuan Institute of Machinery, North China Institute of Technology, and had the present name in June 2004.
NUC is located in Taiyuan, a historic and cultural city of over 2 500 years old and the capital of Shanxi Province.
NUC consists of 19 schools, offering 24 PhD programs, 64 Master programs and 85 Bachelor programs in engineering, science, liberal arts, economics, management, law, art and education, among which engineering, material science and chemistry rank among the top 1% in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) world-wide.
NUC has 2 727 staff members working at NUC, including 8 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 832 professors and associate professors. Full time students enrollment stands at nearly 39 000, including over 4 000 PhD and Master Candidates and 200 international students. NUC graduates are highly acclaimed by both employers and society at large.
NUC houses State, Provincial, or Ministerial key laboratories, research bases, research centers, and National University Science Park. The fund for scientific research and technological development has reached 3.66 billion Yuan RMB in the last decade. NUC has achieved tremendous accomplishments in a great number of research projects, some of which have won high-level awards.
NUC insists on operating in open and international way, and is endeavoring to seize every possible opportunity to obtain developments. Now established as the largest educational institution in Shanxi Province, North University of China, ever striving for excellence in both teaching and scientific research, is aiming to be nation-oriented and world-oriented.
The School of International Education (SIE) was founded in 2013, in accordance with the international development strategy of the North University of China, to undertake educational tasks of Experimental Class of International Education, overseas students, and students of international exchange programs. SIE is designed to construct an international education platform integrating international curriculums, faculty, students, and educational resources, meet the needs of local economic society development, and train high-level professional personnel possessing international vision, consciousness of innovation, good knowledge of international rules, and abilities to participate in international affairs and competition.
In 2014, to the domestic students, SIE launched its first degree program --- Mechanical Design, Manufacture & Automation, featuring in internationally accepted curriculum system, English teaching materials, English-taught courses, small classes and elite education. In 2015, the plan of Experimental Class of International Education was initiated. Outstanding freshmen were recruited to form experimental classes in Electronic Information Engineering in 2015 and Visual Communication Design in 2016. A special training program is being carried out, which emphasizes high integration of specialized knowledge and foreign language proficiency, aiming to broaden students’ professional thinking and international vision so as to enhance their intercultural communication competence and international competiveness.
By promoting exchange & cooperation at multi levels and in broad fields with over 90 overseas universities, SIE is devoted to faculty visit and student exchange, endeavoring to improve steadily the internationally educational level of the University and build it into a high-level teaching & research-oriented university with significant influence and distinctive features.