Food Science and Engineering

Ningbo University is situated in Ningbo lying midway in the coastline of the East China Sea, facing north to Shanghai from across the Hangzhou Bay. MBBS and Business Administration, both taught in English, are major bachelor's degree programs available to International students. MBA and Sino-Australia MBA programs, both instructed in English, are on the master's degree provided for you. NBU is one of the 100 Chinese universities which are officially authorized the qualification by MOE for the recruitment of foreign students sponsored by government scholarships. NBU is a wonderful destination for you to study in China.

Ningbo University is a dynamic, young and comprehensive university with a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, education, liberal arts, history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine and management. It is one of the key institutions of higher learning of Zhejiang Province. Deng Xiaoping autographed the name of Ningbo University. Throughout its establishment and development, the University has been upheld by considerable donations and generous support from patriotic overseas Chinese such as Sir Yue-kong Pao, Sir Run-run Shaw, Sir Chao An Chung, Sir Hans Tang, Sir Yue-shu Pao, Sir Cao Guangbiao, Sir Li Dashan, Sir Zhu Xiushan, as well as from personages of various circles in the country. Mr. Cheng Gang, a standing member of Ningbo Municipal Committee of CPC, is concurrently Secretary of the Ningbo University Committee of CPC. Professor Nie Qiuhua holds the presidency of the university.

 

Location  

The University is located in the historical and cultural city of Ningbo of Zhejiang Province, bordering on the East China Sea. Ningbo has long been acclaimed as a thriving commercial port and a shining pearl near the East Sea, and it has gradually grown to be a major city in the Southern part of the Yangtze Delta and a key trading port in the East China. The University has five campuses, covering an area of over 160 hectares, with a floor space totaling 560,000 square meters. The main campus, adjacent to Ningzhen Road in the north and Yongjiang River in the south, offers wide space for study and research with magnificent buildings and pleasant lawns and greenery.

The university is featured by its emphasis on the development of academic disciplines. Centering on the local economic and social development, the university has adjusted and optimized the structure of disciplines, and this has resulted in its 13 provincial key academic disciplines and key assisted academic disciplines, 11 municipal key academic disciplines and key assisted academic disciplines, which bear distinct regional characteristics. The university has also made great advancements in scientific studies and social services. It has 2 provincial key laboratories, 12 municipal key laboratories, and 77 institutes. It has jointly established, with the local enterprises, 3 provincial and municipal engineering and technology centers. The academic periodical of the university is the Journal of Ningbo University, which consists of editions of Natural Science and Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Education.

International Education

Ningbo University maintains close links and intercollegiate cooperation with 47 well-known institutions of higher learning in Canada, Germany, France, Britain, USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Australia. The success of the international exchanges can be exemplified by its successful China-Canada joint-educational program and its other programs for international students from Japan and other foreign countries. It also has successful cooperation and exchanges with institutions of higher learning and educational agencies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Up to now it has signed cooperative agreements with The Chinese Culture University of Taiwan, Chaoyang University of Technology, Chihlee Institute of Commerce, and Taiwan Marine University, etc.

Future Development

Facing the great historical opportunity of developing higher education, Ningbo University, based on Ningbo and serving Zhejiang, is laying greater emphasis on improving its quality, raising its level, and heightening its status. The University is now endeavoring to become a well-known university with both educational and academic excellence, not only closely linked with the local economic and social development and satisfying the demands of the age, but also contributing more to the economic prosperity and social development of Zhejiang and the country as a whole.

Located in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, Ningbo University is generally consisted of three campuses, the east campus which is the main campus, the west campus and the north campus. All the international students can live on campus.

Room Price:

The International Student Hostel consist of 4 kinds of rooms, including 261 small single rooms, 76 double rooms, 16 large single rooms and 10 suites. 

Small Single Room:	RMB 1200 per month	Note: The fees listed above include the room fees only. Additional accommodations, such as water, electricity and network, etc, are surcharged and will be covered by the tenant.	Offers:1)  a business center, lecture hall, coffee bar, shared kitchen, laundry room, storage room and leisure space.  2) There is also the provision for temporary accommodation for students' friends and relatives.
Double Room:	RMB 1800 per month ( RMB 900 per person per month)

Rules of Accommodation

a. While registering, you should submit valid ID credentials as well as other proofs, and then fill out the accommodation registration form, check the list of articles distributed for daily use, pay RMB1,000 as the deposit money which will be returned back to you while leaving the university. Accommodation will be available only if the above-mentioned formalities have been settled down.

b. The number and names of students sharing a dormitory should be strictly in accordance with the registered number and names. No guest should stay overnight, including the schoolmates. And the bed is not transferable, either.

c. With the consideration of security, do not lend your key to your dormitory to others or borrow keys from others; and when you are out, please shut the door as well as the windows properly. 

d. Do not bring into the building animals and other unclean or dangerous articles, such as articles easy to burn or explode, or poisonous or radioactive materials. Do not burn anything or set off fireworks in the building.

e. It is strictly prohibited to take such illegal activities as fighting, gambling, taking drugs, calling prostitute in the building, or to put up dirty posters, to distribute dirty books, pictures or photos, or to play dirty records, video tapes or Video CD. 

f. Do not have excessive drinking, making noise, or play records or CDs with too high sound.

g. To ensure a tidy, comfortable living condition, please do not spit improperly or litter, or throw anything out of the window. 

h. To ensure security and avoid conflagration, please put out any possible sources of fire(e.g. cigarette stub),and cut off all the power resources when you leave your room. 

i. It is strictly prohibited to use unauthorized electric heating devices or lay electric wires or fix other electric appliances in the dormitory. If there is any violation, the person(s) concerned will be fined upon the situation.

j. Take care of the articles distributed for daily use and public facilities. Compensation must be treated according to the corresponding regulation(s).

3 Steps to Apply to a Chinese University

1. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens and valid foreign passport holders.

2. Under the age of 35 for master’s degree programs (Age limit is flexible for healthy applicants with certain work experience and high academic ability). Applicants must be Bachelor’s degree holders (Those who provide pre-graduation certificate or student status certificate at application MUST provide Bachelor's degree diploma no later than registration).

3. With proper moral conduct, in good health with no infectious disease or any physical or mental diseases that may affect the normal study.

4. Applicants who have given up their original Chinese citizenship (including residents in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and become foreign citizens shall provide the documents certifying the cancellation of Chinese citizenship and household registration, according to the policy of the Ministry of Education of the PRC.

If the applicant has acquired foreign citizenship automatically at the time of birth in a foreign country, whose parents were both Chinese citizens, or one of the parents was a Chinese citizen, parent’s (with Chinese citizenship) permanent resident in foreign country should be obtained prior to the birth of  applicant.  

1.Photocopy of the passport

The passport must have an expiry date after September of the year you apply, if the validity of the applicant's current passport does not meet the requirement, please apply for a new passport before submitting the application.

2.Passport-sized photo

A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applican

3. Photocopy of 1st page to 8th page of your valid passport (Liaoning)

With photo, passport number & expiration date and name included.

For the regarding authority must make sure that there are at least two pages on the passport for the Chinese Embassy to stick the Visa paper and Immigration to stick the resident permit paper.

4. Photocopy of Physical Examination Record.

Applicants should strictly check the items in accordance with the requirements of Physical Examination Record.pdf Incomplete records or those without the signature of the attending doctor, the official stamp of the hospital, or a sealed photograph of the applicants are invalid. The date shall be after October 1, 2023. The original piece is required during registration.

5. Self-introduction video

Applicants are required to upload a video of self-introduction within one minute, and those who have HSK certificates must use Chinese to introduce themselves.

6.Original or copy document of the highest diploma (afternotarization).

If the applicant is currently a student, the pre-graduation certificate issued by the school is required. Non-Chinese/English documents must be attached with notarized Chinese or English translations.

7.Original or copy document of the mark sheet

Stamped Transcript from the undergraduate/master program or notarized Chinese/English-translated transcript. Those transcripts shall be issued and sealed by the attending university's academic affairs office, graduate school, or student management department.

8.Recommendation letters of 2 professors or associate professors

The signature date shall be after October 1, 2023.

9.Study Plan of no less than 1000 words.

Please clarify your research background, method, content, significance, etc.

10.CV letter    

11.Valid HSK Transcript for Chinese-taught programs and IELTS\TOEFL for English-taught programs(or other documents to prove your linguistic competence.)    12.published essays, or any other supporting materials.    

13.family financial proof certificate (or one year bank statement)     

14.Non-criminal record or Chinese/English-translated document with an official stamp.