Nankai University is a 985 University and a 211 University.

According to statistics, there are 115 211 colleges and universities and 39 985 colleges nationwide.

Introduction to the 211 Project and the 985 Project The 211 Project is a construction project focusing on the construction of about 100 higher education institutions and a number of key disciplines in the 21st century. It is the largest and highest-level national project in the field of higher education since the founding of New China.

Key construction work is a major measure taken by the Chinese government to implement the strategy of “rejuvenating the country through science and education”.

985 Project, on May 4, 1998, at the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, it was proposed that "in order to achieve modernization, our country must have several first-class universities with world-leading levels." The first phase of the 985 Project was first constructed at Peking University and

Tsinghua University began implementation.

Nankai University, referred to as "Nankai", is located in Tianjin. It is directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and is directly under the central government at the deputy ministerial level. It is a national "World-class University Construction University (Class A)" and a national

"Project 211" and "Project 985" key construction universities, selected into the national "Everest Plan", "Strengthening Foundation Plan", "2011 Plan", "111 Plan", Excellent Legal Talent Education and Training Plan, National High-level University Publicly Funded Universities

Postgraduate program, institution receiving Chinese government scholarships for international students in China, Ministry of Education Demonstration Base for Studying in China, National Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform, Degree Authorization Independent Review Unit, a member of the International Public University Forum, and one of the "University Beichen"

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Nankai University was founded in 1904 by Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling, adhering to the concept of saving the nation through education. It was founded in 1919.

In 1937, the campus was bombed by the Japanese invaders and moved south. It merged with Peking University and Tsinghua University in Changsha to form National Changsha Provisional University. In 1938, it moved to Kunming and was renamed National Southwest Associated University. In 1946, it returned to Tianjin to resume school and was renamed.

National; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it went through the adjustment of colleges and universities and became a national key university with equal emphasis on arts and sciences; since the reform and opening up, Tianjin Institute of Foreign Trade and China Tourism Management Cadre College have been merged into it.

Scale of Nankai University: As of December 2020, the school covers an area of ??4.4312 million square meters, of which Balitai Campus covers an area of ??1.216 million square meters, Jinnan Campus covers an area of ??2.4589 million square meters, TEDA College covers an area of ??67,200 square meters, and the school building

The total area is 1.9519 million square meters; there are 26 professional schools and 93 undergraduate majors; there are 11 first-level master's degree programs, 27 professional degree master's programs, 31 first-level doctoral degree programs, 1 second-level doctoral program, and postdoctoral fellows.

There are 28 scientific research mobile stations.

Nankai University’s teaching staff: As of 2021, the school has 2,162 full-time teachers.

Among them, there are 822 doctoral supervisors, 770 master's supervisors, 864 professors, and 840 associate professors; there are 11 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 7 academicians of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries, and the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Youth"

There are 54 winners, 34 winners of the "National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth", 23 leading talents of the national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", 11 top young talents, 28 candidates of the national "Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project", the Ministry of Education's "

There are 21 winners of the "Cross-Century Talent Fund", 159 candidates of the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Plan", 19 national-level experts with outstanding contributions, 14 members of the subject evaluation group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China's innovative research group

6 persons in charge, 3 chief scientists of the "National High-Tech Research and Development Program (863 Plan)", 15 chief scientists (17 persons) of the "National Key Basic Research and Development Plan (973 Plan)", and project leaders of the National Key R&D Plan

17 people; 7 national-level teaching teacher award winners, 9 national-level teaching teams, 8 winners of the Ministry of Education's "College Young Teacher Award"; 8 outstanding talents in Tianjin, leading talents in Tianjin's "Special Support Plan for Talent Development"

3 people, 12 young top-notch talents, 11 leaders of high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams, 7 experts with outstanding contributions in Tianjin, 2 outstanding Tianjin scholars, and first-level candidates for Tianjin’s “131” innovative talent training project

60 people, 17 leaders of innovative talent teams, 28 winners of the "Tianjin Outstanding Youth Science Fund", 38 winners of the Tianjin Municipal Distinguished Teaching Teacher Award, and 16 Tianjin municipal teaching teams.

Discipline construction: first-level disciplines and national key disciplines: mathematics, chemistry, theoretical economics, optical engineering, history, and applied economics.

Other independent secondary disciplines are national key disciplines: optics, zoology, microbiology, pesticides, Marxist philosophy, political theory, business management, environmental science, and ancient Chinese literature.

National key cultivation disciplines: linguistics and applied linguistics, botany.

World-class discipline construction disciplines: world history, mathematics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, and statistics.