Hohai University, referred to as "Hehai" for short, is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, which is characterized by water conservancy, with engineering as its advantage and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It was established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Water Resources, the State Oceanic Administration and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is the first unit in China that has the right to award doctoral, master and bachelor degrees. It is also a university that built the national "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" and established a graduate school, and was selected as the national "6544".

National college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, national high-level university construction graduate program, national new engineering research and practice project, China government scholarship receiving institution for international students in China, national college students' cultural quality education base, and national universities.

Practice education, innovation and entrepreneurship base.

Hohai University was founded in 19 15, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is directly under the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Water Resources, the State Oceanic Administration and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province have jointly established the advantages of national key universities, national "world-class discipline construction universities", national "2 1 1 project" and "985 project".

Department Setup: According to the information of official website from October to June, 2002, the school has hydrology and water resources college, water conservancy and hydropower college, port and coastal engineering college, civil and transportation college, environment college, energy and electric power college, computer and information college, electromechanical engineering college, Internet of Things engineering college, mechanics and materials college, and earth science and engineering college.

Agricultural Engineering College, Ocean College, Science College, Business School, Enterprise Management College, Public Administration College, Law School, Marxism College, Foreign Language College, Physical Education Department and other professional departments, Dayu College (top-notch talent training college), International Education College and Distance and Continuing Education College set up 63 undergraduate majors.