📖 About the university

Nantong University is a comprehensive public university in Nantong, Jiangsu, with a proud history rooted in schools founded by the reformer Zhang Jian in 1912, including one of China's earliest modern medical and normal colleges. It is best known for medicine and neuroscience — its Key Laboratory of Neuroregeneration is a national research center — as well as textiles, reflecting Nantong's heritage as a cotton-industry city. The university runs large affiliated hospitals and enrolls a substantial number of international students in its English-taught MBBS program. Its academic breadth covers engineering, science, literature, education, economics and the arts. Located across the river from Shanghai, Nantong University combines a historic identity with modern medical and engineering research.

🎯 Fields of study

🏛️ Colleges & schools

🌆 About Nantong

Nantong sits on the north bank of the Yangtze across from Shanghai, often called 'the first modern city of China' for the pioneering schools and industries of Zhang Jian. It is a center for cotton textiles, home furnishings and shipbuilding.

💰 Fees & costs

💡 General estimates for international students in China; they vary by major and university, and the official figure is always on the university website.

🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.