According to Sohu's query. Com, Nanjing University ranks fifth in the country, with the province 1. Nanjing University, referred to as Nanda for short, is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), and ranks among the national "double first-class", "985 Project" and "21/project" key construction universities.