Nanchang University, located in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, was jointly established by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Jiangxi Provincial Government. It is a national "double first-class" construction university and a first-class university in Jiangxi Province.
By March 2023, there were 4,326 teaching and administrative staff in the school headquarters (including 27 full-time teachers 1 2 and senior titles 1597), including 2 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of China Academy of Engineering 1 person, 3 "double-employed" academicians and 1 academician of developing countries1person. National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Instructor 1 person, member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee 1 person, 2 national teaching teams and 2 virtual teaching and research offices.
As of March 2023, the school has 3 national key disciplines, 22 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 3 categories authorized by doctoral professional degrees, and 1 1 postdoctoral research stations; 5 1 master's degree authorized first-level discipline, and 3 1 master's degree authorized category.
The discipline of materials science and engineering was selected as the national "double first-class" construction discipline. 1 1 disciplines ranked in the top of ESI global rankings 1%, among which food science and engineering disciplines ranked in the top of the world 1‰, and were rated as Class A in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation.