Is Ningbo Institute of Technology the second one? Ningbo Institute of Technology is the second. It is a full-time ordinary undergraduate college founded by Ningbo Municipal People's Government, which focuses on engineering, with the coordinated development of literature, science, economics and management. Being selected as a provincial master's program construction unit, it is one of the first universities in the Ministry of Education to implement the education and training plan for outstanding engineers. Ningbo Institute of Technology, whether public or private, is a state-owned university according to the national university information. Generally speaking, public universities are cheap and private universities are more expensive.