Founded in 1954, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (NJUCM) is a university included in the national Double First-Class University Plan and the Jiangsu High-Level Construction University Plan (A Level). It is jointly constructed by the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is one of the earliest universities of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China, and has been responsible for training the first batch of teachers, compiling the first set of teaching materials and formulating the first version of syllabus for the higher education of TCM in New China. Regarded as the Cradle of Higher Education of TCM, NJUCM has made pioneering contributions to the establishment and popularization of the higher education model of TCM in China.
NJUCM has three campuses in Xianlin, Hanzhongmen and Taizhou, with 11 colleges and teaching institutions including the First, Second and Third Clinical Medical Colleges and the Gulou Clinical Medical College, 15 affiliated hospitals and 3 affiliated pharmaceutical companies. It now has more than 20,000 students and 2,000 faculty members.
NJUCM takes Chinese medicine as the main body, and insists on the combination of Chinese and Western medicine and coordinated development supported by multiple disciplines. Adhering to the philosophy of conveying thorough knowledge of both western and traditional Chinese medicine, NJUCM inherits the essence, upholds fundamental principles and breaks new ground. Now it has 1 national Double First-Class Construction Discipline, 4 advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu universities, 7 provincial key disciplines of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and 13 high-level key disciplines of TCM in the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is among the first batch of universities eligible of awarding master’s and doctoral degrees in China, with 4 doctoral degree programs of first-level discipline, 1 doctoral professional degree program, 12 master's degree programs of first-level discipline, 6 master's professional degree programs, and 4 post-doctoral research stations. It has also achieved excellent results in the fifth round of disciplinary assessment by the Ministry of Education, and its main disciplines of Chinese Medicine and Chinese Pharmacology are ranked in the forefront of China. So far, the university boasts six disciplines among the top 1% of ESI, including Pharmacology and Toxicology, Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience and Behavior, and Molecular Biology and Genetics, of which Pharmacology and Toxicology has entered the top 1‰ of ESI. The university has been ranked by U.S. News as one of the Best Universities in the World for five times, and has been ranked the first in TCM colleges and universities in China for three consecutive years. From 2020 to 2023, its Chinese Pharmacology has been ranked first in the Best Chinese Universities Ranking for consecutive years.
NJUCM has always insisted on the strategy of strengthening the university with talents, and has strong faculty members, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, masters of Chinese medicine, national leading talents, national young talents, chief scientists for major projects including the National Science and Technology Major Project, the 973 Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major Project, the National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC) Major Project, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, etc., members of the Discipline Review Group of the State Council, national prominent educators, prestigious TCM practitioners, Qihuang Scholars, national candidates of the Baiqianwan Talents Project, and a number of domestic and foreign renowned experts and scholars. The university has built a first-class faculty of mainly young and middle-aged teachers, rich in development potential and innovative vigor.
NJUCM is constantly deepening the reform of education and teaching, and focuses on cultivating first-rate talents with both ability and integrity. It offers 37 undergraduate programs covering 6 major categories: Medicine, Management, Science, Engineering, Economics and Liberal Arts. Among them, there are 10 national first-class undergraduate programs, 19 provincial first-class programs, and 10 brand programs in Jiangsu Province. It cooperates with Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Kanion Pharmaceutical and other famous institutes and enterprises to jointly cultivate outstanding doctors (successive undergraduate and postgraduate 9-year program of Chinese Medicine, “5+3” top innovative talents program of Chinese Medicine, successive undergraduate and postgraduate program of Clinical Medicine of Chinese and Western Medicine), outstanding scientists (successive undergraduate and postgraduate “4+5” program of Chinese Pharmacology) and outstanding engineers (successive undergraduate and postgraduate programs of Chinese Pharmacology/Pharmacy).
NJUCM focuses on the major strategic needs of the country, and serves economic and social development with scientific and technological innovation. It boasts a number of scientific research platforms, such as National Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process Control and Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, National Development and Reform Commission Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Jiangsu Province, Collaborative Innovation Center of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of Jiangsu Colleges and Universities, Philosophical and Social Science Key Research Bases of Jiangsu Colleges and Universities, Decision-Making Consultancy Research Base in Jiangsu Province, and National Technology Transfer Demonstration Center. In recent years, the total number of projects undertaken by the university for the National Science and Technology Major Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China have ranked the forefront of Chinese medicine colleges and universities in China.
NJUCM takes the initiative to integrate into the world trend, and continuously improves the internationalization level of TCM education and cultural exchanges. On June 20, 2010, President Xi Jinping attended the inauguration ceremony of the Confucius Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which was jointly established by NJUCM and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), and spoke highly of the university. It is one of the first higher colleges of TCM approved by the Ministry of Education to accept and train foreign students as well as students from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and has achieved the full cycle of Chinese language training, undergraduate education, master's degree and doctoral degree in the education of students studying in China. The university is one of the WHO Collaborating Centers for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, International Acupuncture Training Center, and National TCM Service Export Base, which has trained more than 30,000 international students, exchanged and cooperated with colleges and universities or academic groups and institutions in more than 90 countries and regions, and established 2 Confucius Institutes of Chinese Medicine, 4 national overseas TCM Centers, 5 overseas branches of the International Jingfang College, and 6 international joint programs. The university's level of international education, scientific research cooperation and talent cultivation of Chinese Medicine is constantly upgraded. The Swiss TCM University organized by NJUCM is the only officially recognized TCM university in Switzerland, and the first independent TCM university in Europe that can confer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in TCM.
In the new development stage, NJUCM will deeply implement the new development concept and build a new development pattern, take root in Jiangsu, face the whole of China and go global. Adhering to the development of specialties and pursuing excellence, we will strive to build the university into a first-class university of traditional Chinese medicine with Chinese characteristics and Chinese style.
(Update to April 2024)
Xianlin Campus: No. 138 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210023
Hanzhongmen Campus: No. 282 Hanzhong Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210029
Taizhou Campus: No. 6 Kuangshi Road, Taizhou Medical High-Tech Zone, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, 225300
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