Nanchang University has 9 national brand majors, including Chinese Language and Literature, Journalism, Business Administration, Biological Sciences, Material Forming and Control Engineering, Communication Engineering, Software Engineering, Medical Imaging and Anesthesiology. There are 22 provincial key majors: philosophy, history, law, administration, economics, tourism management, mathematics and applied mathematics, applied physics, chemistry, aquaculture, material science and engineering, polymer materials and engineering, chemical engineering and technology, environmental science and engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, civil engineering, architecture, basic medicine, clinical medicine, preventive medicine and stomatology. The major of materials science and engineering in Nanchang University was founded by Professor Pan Jiluan, a famous Chinese material engineering scientist, educator and academician of the two academies. He came to Jiangxi from Tsinghua, and when he became president, he personally led the establishment of Nanchang University. He guided and supported the construction and development of materials science. After several generations' efforts, the material discipline of Nanchang University has made great progress, and the discipline of "Material Physics and Chemistry" has also been rated as one of the seven national key disciplines of this discipline. The college has two majors: materials science and engineering and polymer materials and engineering. In the senior year, these two majors also set the direction of metal materials, inorganic nonmetallic materials, polymer materials and polymer-based composite materials. During the study period, students can choose their favorite major and direction according to their own interests. Chemical process machinery is a discipline under the School of Environment and Chemical Engineering of Nanchang University, which belongs to the key discipline of Jiangxi Province. The key research direction of Nanchang University's national tenth five-year plan "2 1 1 project" key discipline construction of ecology and resources. It is a comprehensive subject that spans mechanical engineering, control engineering, chemical engineering, power engineering, engineering thermophysics, computer technology and intelligent information technology. Journalism Journalism is a well-known dominant major in Nanchang University, which requires students to master not only various skills of journalism, but also a lot of social science knowledge and rich historical and cultural knowledge, so that students can have an advantage in employment after graduation. This major has also been rated as a provincial brand major in Jiangxi Province. Food science and engineering is a national key discipline. It has the State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology and the Key Laboratory of Food Science of the Ministry of Education jointly established with Jiangnan University, with strong teachers and a number of returned students. Over the years, the specialty of food science and engineering has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in the food field based on the principle of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and focusing on giving full play to their talents and specialties. In addition, the "Material Forming and Control Engineering" of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is the second batch of characteristic specialty construction points in colleges and universities. Communication engineering and medical imaging won the third batch of characteristic specialty construction sites in colleges and universities in 2008.