The major of Artificial Intelligence is a newly formulated undergraduate major of the Ministry of Education in 2018. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) is one of the first batch of 35 universities approved to enroll students with this major. NUIST has been recruiting students since September 2019.
Artificial Intelligence is a wide-range major with the background of computer science and information theory. There has gradually been formed a high-level teaching staff of this major. Focusing on the goal of research-led college, this major is oriented to the development of artificial intelligence industry, one of the four emerging strategic industries in China. It is closely related to the frontier scientific problems of cognition and computing, solves major frontier scientific problems, breaks through common key technical bottlenecks. The development of this major is supported by Jiangsu University Sensor Network and Meteorological Equipment and Jiangsu University Information and Communication Engineering.
The major of Artificial Intelligence is closely related with the University's information and communication engineering, computer science and technology, control science and technology, mathematics, atmospheric science, marine science and other advantageous disciplines, forming a new training mode of artificial intelligence + X with the characteristics of our university.
Facing the needs of new engineering industry and discipline development, this major strengthens the research-led education of artificial intelligence. The training program and curriculum design highlight the characteristics of cultivating innovative research-oriented talents with solid foundation, broad knowledge and excellent ability. This major focuses on cultivating qualified personal quality and good scientific literacy, to ensure the students to master the basic theoretical knowledge of artificial intelligence, be familiar with the basic methods and main tools of artificial intelligence, and can engage in the engineering application or scientific research. The specific objectives are as follows:
Training Objective 1: the ability to apply the basic knowledge of mathematics and artificial intelligence, conceive and design the project products, processes and systems.
Training objective 2: the ability to undertake the design of mathematical model in the fields of artificial intelligence such as natural language processing, computer vision, intelligent meteorology.
Training objective 3: the ability to embody innovative thinking and competitiveness in the practice of artificial intelligence, and consider public safety and health, environmental and social sustainable development.
Training objective 4: have certain organizational management ability and team cooperation and communication quality, can play an effective role in the team.
Training objective 5: have the ability of lifelong learning.
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, colloquially Nan Xin Da, is a double first-class discipline university located in the northern part of Nanjing city, China. It is well known for meteorology research and education.
🏛️ About Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST)
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), also known as Nan Xin Da was founded in 1960 by the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government, the Ministry of Education of China, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the State Oceanic Administration. Known until 2004 as the Meteorology College of Nanjing University, it is the oldest meteorology science higher learning institution in China.
Located on the north bank of the River Yangtse, in the heart of the Industrial Zone of Nanjing, on 140 hectares of campus, NUIST has over 30,000 undergraduates, around 1,500 of whom are international students. There are more than 1,500 full-time faculty staff members over 22 schools and colleges.
Today, the university is on the list of China’s national "Double First-rate" universities, offering degree programmes in areas including management, economics, law, agriculture, and humanities. The discipline of atmospheric science ranked as the best in China in an evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education in China. Geoscience, engineering and computer science are also rated particularly highly.
Its motto translates as “promotion of virtue, investigation of nature, cultivation of self and construction of society”.
NUIST is one of two universities to offer the Chinese-Government Scholarship-WMO program, a scholarship offered to students of meteorology or related fields. The school has a World Meteorological Organization Regional Training Centre, which has trained more than 2,400 senior meteorological and hydrological technicians and managers from 140 regions.
The university has established cooperative relationships with 48 universities and colleges in 15 other countries, including Yale University, the University of Manchester and the University of Toronto.
About Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu----one of the most developed provinces of China. It is located in the Yangtze River Delta, with rapid and convenient transportation to the city of Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou. Nanjing is a modern city with energetic economics. Pillar industries such as high-tech electronic information and the auto industry have built a complete industrial system. Nanjing is also a city of excellent specialists for scientific education. As one of the four scientific research education cities in the country, Nanjing has 41 higher universities with over 600,000 students.
Nanjing is an ecological city with a comfortable human-habitat environment. Since the implementation of the construction---- ”Green Nanjing” in 2003, Nanjing has fastened the speed of urban greening.
Nanjing is a civilized city with open minds. At present, 81 top 500 corporations have made investments in Nanjing. Nanjing is a safe city with good public security and sound prevention and control system.
Nanjing belongs to the north subtropical monsoon climate zone with four seasons, plenty of sunshine, and rains. The average temperature of a year is 17.8℃.
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❓ Entry Requirements
The minimum age is 18 and the maximum age is 65.
You don’t need to have studied Chinese before.
Minimum education level: High School.
1st Class Scholarship: Tuition and accommodation fee waiver.
2nd Class Scholarship: Tuition Waiver.
To apply in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology applicants must:
1. Be a citizen of a country other than
the People’s Republic of China;
2. Be
a bachelor’s degree holder under the age of 35;
3. Be in good health;
4. Abide by the laws and decrees of the
Chinese government and the regulations of the school.
Bachelor
HSC
SSC