This school is a national key university with a history of more than 100 years, featuring water conservancy, focusing on engineering and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It is jointly 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 a university that implements the national "2 1 1 project" key construction, the construction of national dominant discipline innovation platform, the construction of first-class disciplines and the establishment of graduate schools approved by the Ministry of Education.
The predecessor of Hohai University can be traced back to the "Hohai Engineering College" founded in Nanjing in 19 15, and it is the first institution of higher learning in China to train water conservancy talents. 1924 merged with the Engineering Department of National Southeast University to form Hohai Engineering University; 1927 was merged into the National Fourth Sun Yat-sen University and later renamed as National Central University and Nanjing University; From 65438 to 0952, the Water Conservancy Department of Nanjing University, the Water Conservancy Department of Jiaotong University, the Water Conservancy Department of Tongji University, the Water Conservancy Department of Zhejiang University and the East China Water Conservancy Institute merged to form the "East China Water Conservancy Institute"; 1960 was recognized as a national key university by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; 1985, restore the traditional school name "Hohai University".
The school has Xikang Road Campus, Jiangning Campus and Changzhou Campus in Nanjing and Changzhou, covering an area of nearly 2,580 mu. Offering 56 undergraduate majors; At present, there are 3,433 faculty members, including teachers with senior titles 140 1 person, and 535 doctoral supervisors. There are 5 1499 students with various academic qualifications, including graduate students 17 142, undergraduates 1984 1 person, adult students 13052, and international students1460.
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, earth science and engineering college, agricultural engineering college, ocean college, science college, business college, enterprise management college, public administration college, law school, Marxist college and so on.