About China Pharmaceutical University
China Pharmaceutical University (CPU) is known for its long history and its leading role in China’s pharmaceutical academia. It is situated in the historical and cultural city of Nanjing, is one of the “211 project” key universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China, and listed among the “Double First-Class” universities in China. The University was founded in 1936 as China’s first independent four-year National College of Pharmacy and the first public institution for higher pharmaceutical education in China. Over the 80 years, it has been making important contributions to promote the development of national healthcare, which well represents its motto “Dedicated to academic excellence and devoted to public health.”
The University is composed of two campuses, namely the Xuanwumen Campus and the Jiangning Campus, which cover a total area of about 2100 mu (140 hectares). There are a total of 16 schools and departments, covering 7 disciplines including medicine, science and engineering. There are 31 undergraduate majors, 3 associate (higher vocational) majors, and 3 doctoral research areas (pharmacy, Chinese pharmacy, biology), including 27 doctoral programs and 2 post-doctoral research centers.
In 2022, 6 disciplines including Pharmacology and Toxicology, Chemistry, Biology & Biochemistry, Clinical Medicine, Materials Science and Agricultural Science ranked ESI global top 1%, especially, Pharmacology and Toxicology ranked ESI global top 1‰ (5 out of 10,000), 26th in the world and 1st in Asia. In the 2020 US News World University Rankings, CPU’s Pharmacology and Toxicology rank 18th in the world and 1st in Asia. In the 2019 Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, CPU’s pharmacy discipline ranks 43rd in the world. In Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), CPU’s Medicinal Chemistry has been ranked 3rd in the world for three consecutive years.
CPU is one of the earliest institutions authorized by the Ministry of Education to admit full-time international students and advanced visiting scholars since the 1970s and it has made tremendous efforts to strengthen the cultivation, administration and service of international students. Now, there are nearly 600 international students from more than 70 countries studying at CPU.
Basic information
City: Nanjing, Jiangsu
Founded in: 1936
Type: Public
Number of total students: 16781
Number of international students: 443
Number of faculty: 1684
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According to the official website of the school in May 2020, the school has 1661 in-service teaching staff, including 1014 full-time teachers. 91.5% of the full-time teachers have doctor’s and master’s degrees; 191 senior professional and technical positions and 345 deputy senior professional and technical positions; There are 250 doctoral supervisors and 231 master supervisors. At present, there are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, 1 academician of the German Academy of Sciences, 6 winners of the National Science Fund for distinguished young people, 19 “four young” talents (6 “national excellent young people” and 4 “top young people”), 50 people who enjoy the special allowance of the State Council, 2 “national famous teachers”, 2 “national excellent teachers” and 7 famous teachers in Jiangsu Province; There are 1 innovation research group of NSFC, 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of education, 3 national teaching teams and 4 “111” talent introduction bases.
According to the official website of the University in May 2020, the university has 2 national talent training bases, 2 national talent training mode innovation experimental areas, 10 national boutique open courses (including 8 national boutique resource sharing courses, 2 national boutique video open courses), 6 national boutique online open courses, 3 National Bilingual Teaching Demonstration courses There are 38 excellent courses / online open courses in Jiangsu Province. There are 5 national engineering practice education centers, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 1 National virtual simulation experiment teaching demonstration center; There are 5 specialty construction sites with national characteristics, 3 specialties of national “excellent engineer education and training plan”, 5 brand specialty construction projects of Jiangsu Universities in the 13th five year plan, 5 key specialties of Jiangsu Province in the 12th Five Year Plan, 7 brand specialties of Jiangsu Province and 5 characteristic specialties of Jiangsu Province; Among the 29 undergraduate majors in the University, 19 have obtained the project approval or honor of specialty (class) construction above the provincial level, accounting for 66% of the total enrollment majors.
The university is the chairman unit of the pharmaceutical professional teaching steering committee of the Ministry of education, the chairman unit of the pharmaceutical education special committee of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, the Secretariat unit of the national pharmaceutical professional degree graduate education steering committee, the leader unit of the national pharmaceutical Continuing Education Alliance and the leader unit of the joint meeting of the national pharmaceutical experimental teaching demonstration center.
According to the 2018 statistics of the Ministry of Education of China, CPU’s Pharmacy discipline ranks No. 1 and Traditional Chinese Pharmacy discipline ranks No. 3 among all Chinese universities. According to US News Ranking 2021, China Pharmaceutical University ranked No.1 in pharmacy in the national ranking,#15th in pharmacy and pharmacology in the global ranking
CPU offers 20 bachelor’s degree programs, 29 master’s programs, 24 doctoral programs and 6 post-doctoral fellowship programs. There are three national key disciplines: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutics and one provincial key discipline—Modern Traditional Chinese Pharmacy and Pharmacognosy.
At present[clarify], CPU has 16,144 full-time students, including 383 international students from more than 40 countries. CPU is the only institution that is authorized by the Ministry of Education to admit full-time pharmacy students, continuing education students and senior visiting scholars from overseas. It is also one of the higher educational institutions in the mainland for students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
