Ningbo University is a new type of local comprehensive university founded and rising in the reform and opening up, which is jointly managed by Zhejiang Province and Ningbo City. 1986 was founded by Mr. Bao Yugang, the world ship king, and Comrade Deng Xiaoping wrote the name of the school himself. At the beginning of the school, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, China University of Science and Technology, Peking University, and the former Hangzhou University helped to start the school-running process from a high starting point. 1996, the former Ningbo University, Ningbo Normal University and Ningbo Branch of Zhejiang Fisheries College merged to form a new Ningbo University. After 2000, Ningbo Ocean School, Ningbo Forestry School and Ningbo Normal School merged one after another. 1992, the school was listed as the first batch of universities in China. 1995 passed the first batch of undergraduate teaching evaluation by the former State Education Commission. In 2000, it was listed as a provincial key construction university by Zhejiang Provincial People's Government. In 2003, it passed the evaluation of the Ministry of Education and achieved excellent results. In 2005, the number of master's programs exceeded 50, and the research funding exceeded 654.38 billion yuan. In 2006, he won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award 1, the first prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education 1, and two national excellent courses. In 2007, it was newly added as a doctoral degree awarding unit, and three disciplines, such as engineering mechanics, communication and information system and aquaculture, were listed as doctoral degree authorized disciplines.

Ningbo University is located in the north area of Ningbo Higher Education Park, covering an area of more than 2,700 mu, with a total construction area of nearly 720,000 square meters. The school has all kinds of facilities, excellent school conditions and advanced computer network system. The library is Ningbo Branch of Zhejiang Higher Education Digital Resource Center, with a collection of 2.65 million books, including 6.5438+0.42 million paper books and 6.5438+0.23 million electronic books. The school has an open terrain, winding Yongjiang River, lush trees and meaningful architecture, which is an excellent place for studying.

During the development of the school, many "Ningbo Gang" people at home and abroad, such as Bao Yushu, Cao Cursor, Li Dasan, Zhao Anzhong, Tang, Gu Guohua, Bao Peiqing and Zhu Yinglong, and Wang Kuancheng Education Foundation have given a lot of donations and extensive support. Over the past 20 years, more than 60 Ningbo gang members donated nearly 400 million yuan to help the school build a number of teaching and research buildings, create a high-level teacher team, and provide strong help and support for the school's high starting point and leap-forward development. Nowadays, the care and help of the "Ningbo Gang" people to the school has a long history, from one family to another, from the first generation to the second generation and the third generation, and has become an important carrier for them to express and carry forward their great passion of patriotism, love for their hometown and benefit the mulberry. The donation of many "Ningbo gangs" has also become a major advantage of the school. At the same time, their Morita spirit of attaching importance to education and benefiting the people greatly enriched the unique connotation of school campus culture. 1993, Ningbo university also initiated cross-strait student group exchanges, and the number of college students visiting each other has reached 12.

The school actively advocates the academic spirit of "seeking truth from facts and applying practical experience" of East Zhejiang School, and comprehensively implements the reform of talent training mode based on the "platform+module" curriculum structure system, which has become one of the school-running characteristics. The school pays attention to improving the quality of personnel training. In recent years, he has won many awards in the national electronic design competition for college students, mathematical modeling and professional skills competitions such as English and physical education, and the quality sampling of master's degree thesis has been among the best in Zhejiang universities for many times. The school has set up six centers, including student assistance center, employment guidance center, mental health guidance center, study guidance center, entrepreneurship guidance center, and student affairs complaint center, and formulated and implemented evaluation methods for students' non-academic factors, creating brands of students' ideological and moral education such as "being a person, doing things, learning", "telling their own stories" and "economic and social development forum". Continuously strengthen the service and guidance for students in innovation.

As a university directly named after the city, the school firmly establishes the concept of serving the local area, focuses on the needs of local economic and social development, and strives to improve the level of discipline construction through scientific research and technological innovation; Guided by building a service-oriented education system, actively promote the construction of application-oriented talent training bases; Take the scientific and technological innovation platform as the carrier, and strive to open up new channels for Industry-University-Research's work; With policies and measures as the guarantee and scientific and technological cooperation projects in counties and cities as the carrier, teachers should be mobilized to actively participate in serving local areas, so as to enhance the overall strength of schools serving local areas, seek development in local areas, find advantages from comprehensive aspects and create first-class characteristics.

Since its establishment, the school has always advocated an open concept of running a school and attached importance to international exchanges and cooperation in education. So far, it has established inter-school exchanges and cooperation with more than 40 institutions in Canada, Germany, France, Britain, the United States, Sweden, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other countries. Have the qualification of China government scholarship for international students designated by the Ministry of Education; Every year, outstanding international students are sent to famous foreign universities to study for master's degrees, and doctoral students are jointly trained with domestic universities and research institutes; A variety of Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, such as Sino-Canadian business administration, China-Australia MBA and studying in China, have achieved good international influence. At the same time, the school has frequent contacts and exchanges with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. At present, it has signed academic exchange and cooperation agreements with seven universities including Chinese Culture University in Taiwan Province Province.

During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, the school will adhere to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, fully implement the Party's education policy, take Scientific Outlook on Development as the overall development of the school, actively build a harmonious campus, further change the development mode, adhere to connotation construction, and strive to improve the ability of knowledge innovation. Adhering to the school-running spirit of "inclusiveness, self-reliance, pragmatic innovation and keeping pace with the times", we will accelerate development, be determined to innovate, improve quality, cultivate characteristics, integrate into local areas, strive to be first-class, and strive to build into a first-class local comprehensive university in China. In 2009, China University ranked 60th in China University's Top Economics 100 ranking, 75th in China University's Top Engineering 100 ranking, 87th in China University's Top Science 100 ranking, and 87th in China University's Law/09 ranking.