The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA, Chinese: 南京航空航天大学), colloquially known as Nanhang (南航), is a public research university in Nanjing, China. One of the Seven Sons of National Defence, it is directly supervised by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The university is part of the Project 211 and a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university identified by the Ministry of Education of China.
NUAA is a selective university that usually admits top 2% students in the National College Entrance Examination of China. It is ranked among the top 250 universities globally for Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering in the QS World University Rankings. It is also among the top 300 institutions of Asia, according to QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to some rankings in 2021, NUAA ranked within the 301-400 band globally.
Colleges
NUAA has 18 colleges:
- College of Aerospace Engineering
- College of Energy and Power Engineering
- College of Automation Engineering
- College of Electronic and Information Engineering/College of Integrated Circuits
- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- College of Material Science and Technology
- College of Civil Aviation
- College of Mathematics/College of Physics
- College of Economics and Management
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- College of Advanced Vocational Education
- College of Astronautics
- College of Arts
- College of Foreign Languages
- College of Computer Science and Technology/College of Artificial Intelligence
- Jincheng College
- Graduate School
- Academy of Frontier Science
- College of International Education