From 65438 to 0898, Yan Xiu, the left assistant minister of Qing Dynasty, hired Zhang Boling to teach in Yan Private School. Three years later, Zhang Boling was invited to give a lecture at Wang School. Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling decided to merge Yan and Wang Ting to form a private middle school, which is the first private middle school in Tianjin.
1907, the school moved to Kaihua, south of Tianjin, and was renamed as a private Nankai middle school because of its place name.
19 19, Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling founded Nankai university with the tenet of "ruling the country by literature, strengthening the country by reason and enriching the country by business". Four years later, the school moved to Balitai, south of Tianjin, and was officially named Nankai University.
From 65438 to 0937, the famous national Southwest Associated University was founded in Kunming, Yunnan, together with Peking University and Tsinghua.
1946, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Southwest Associated University was dissolved, and Nankai University returned to Tianjin to rebuild on the ruins of the war.
From 65438 to 0984, Nankai University became one of the first 22 universities in China to establish graduate schools.
199565438+February, Nankai University became one of the first 15 universities listed in the national "21project".
In 20 13, Tianjin Chemical Industry Collaborative Innovation Center was recognized by the Ministry of Education, and Nankai became the first batch of universities to enter the latest national education project "20 1 1 plan".