Ningbo Institute of Technology. According to the website for college students, Ningbo Institute, the predecessor of Ningbo Institute of Technology, was founded in 1983 and listed as one of the four Sino-German cooperative universities by the former State Education Commission in 1984. 200 1 merged with Ningbo Communications Vocational and Technical College (to be established), still called Ningbo College. In 2004, it was upgraded and renamed Ningbo Institute of Technology. 202 1, approved the granting of master's degree and 2 degree authorization points.