Introduction to the College of Civil Engineering，Nanjing Forestry University

• Introduction of NJFU

  Nanjing Forestry University is a provincial key university jointly founded by the central and local governments, one of the first national Double First-Class initiative construction universities, and a class A construction university according to the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan. The university was formerly known as the Department of Forestry at Central University (founded in 1902) and the Department of Forestry of Jinling University (founded in 1910). In 1952, Nanjing Forestry College was established and one of the only three forestry colleges in China. In 1985, Nanjing Forestry College was renamed as Nanjing Forestry University. Aiming at serving the national construction of ecological civilization and taking forestry as its advantage, it has been developed into a high-level university with disciplines of science, engineering, agriculture, liberal arts, management, economics, law, and arts.

• College of Civil Engineering History

  The origin of College of Civil Engineering (CCE) can be traced back to 1952 when discipline of Forestry (Logging) Engineering was established. In 1986, Department of Forestry Engineering was founded at NJFU and the discipline of Civil Engineering was included. The department was then expanded to CCE in 1997. CCE now holds approximately 2,000 undergraduate, 500 graduate, and 40 international students, and more than 140 staff and faculty members (more than 90 of them are professors and associate professors). There are one “National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project” winner, one national middle-aged expert with outstanding contribution, one particular subsidy of the State Council receiver, one “Jiangsu prominent Educator” winner, two “Jiangsu Distinguished Professor” winner, six “Jiangsu 333 High-level Talents Project” winners, eight“Jiangsu Six Talent Summit Program” winners, eleven “Jiangsu Qinglan Program” winners in CCE. There are also one team selected as the “Distinguished Teacher and Team of the National Curriculum Ideology and Politics”, one team selected as the “Jiangsu Qinglan Program Distinguished Teaching Team”, and one team selected as the “Jiangsu Outstanding Teaching Team”.

  CCE now consists of seven departments which are Intelligent Construction,Transportation Civil Engineering, Architecture Engineering, Forestry Engineering, Project Management, Surveying and Mapping Engineering, and Water Supply and Drainage Science and Engineering, and one Central Laboratory.

• Majors

  The college holds six undergraduate majors: Intelligent Construction, Civil Engineering (in three different directions: Transportation Civil Engineering, Architecture Engineering, Urban Underground Engineering), Forest Engineering, Project Management, Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Water Supply and Drainage Science and Engineering. All majors are included in the national characteristic specialty or the national first-class construction site, and have passed the professional certification assessment. To be specific:

  Intelligent Construction, newly launched in 2025, is designed to address the growing demands of industrialization, informatization, digitalization, and intelligentization in the construction industry. This major aims to cultivate interdisciplinary engineering professionals equipped with a solid foundation in the principles and methodologies of intelligent construction.

  Forest Engineering is a national characteristic major, a brand major in Jiangsu Province, a key major in the “12th Five-Year Plan of Jiangsu Province”, and a first-class major in Jiangsu Province.

  Civil Engineering is one of the first featured majors in Jiangsu Province, a brand major in Jiangsu Province, a key major in the 12th Five-Year Plan of Jiangsu Province, and a national first-class undergraduate program construction site. In 2013 and 2018, Civil Engineering passed the professional evaluation and engineering education certification twice.

  Engineering Management is a featured major in Jiangsu Province, a key major of the “12th Five-Year Plan” of Jiangsu Province, and a national first-class undergraduate program construction site. It passed the professional evaluation in 2016 and the re-evaluation in 2020.

  Water Supply and Drainage Science and Engineering is a key major of Jiangsu Province during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and the national first-class undergraduate program construction site. It passed the professional evaluation and engineering education certification in 2020 and 2023.

  Surveying and Mapping Engineering is a first-class major in Jiangsu Province and national first-class undergraduate major construction site. In 2020, it passed the professional evaluation and engineering education certification.

• Achievements in Teaching and Talent Development

  In recent years, CCE has participated in 5 national teaching achievement awards and 7 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. One course has been selected as the national ideological and political demonstration course; Four courses has been selected as the national first-class course; and two courses have been selected as the national virtual simulation experiment first-class course. One course has been selected as the provincial ideological and political demonstration course in Jiangsu Province; Seven courses have been selected as the first-class courses in Jiangsu Province; Six courses have been selected as the online open courses for rural revitalization in Jiangsu Province. A total number of 13 textbooks have been selected as the provincial key or planning textbooks and one of which has been selected as the national planning textbook.

  More than 100 student-times won national and provincial competition in different disciplines each year; 14 students won the national outstanding graduates in colleges and universities with major of civil engineering; student teams won two top prizes in the “Challenge Cup” National College Student Competition, 13 students received the provincial outstanding undergraduate senior design (or dissertation) in the past 5 years; 2 teams won the provincial outstanding graduation design team; 28 students won the civil engineering outstanding graduates in Jiangsu province; the overall postgraduate enrollment rate, both domestic and international, is around 44%, with approximately 35% pursuing further studies at domestic institutions. Some of the students graduated from CCE have been selected as the “Most Beautiful College Students”, “Outstanding Students in Famous Universities”, and “Selected Students” in Jiangsu Province, and their achievements are among the top in universities at the same level. CCE launched the international student program in 2013 and has enrolled more than 40 international students since then. After graduation, students are open to pursue further studies or engage in related fields of science research, teaching, technology development, management consulting, design and construction, etc.

  NJFU offers different kinds of scholarships and subsidies for graduate students, including “Academic Scholarships” (full coverage), “Three Good” scholarships (40% coverage), corporate scholarships, national scholarships, “Principal’s Scholarship”, and part-time jobs. Many students have been awarded as the “Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis” in Jiangsu Province, “Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis in Civil Engineering” in Jiangsu Province, and “Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis in Composite Materials” in Jiangsu Province, etc.

• Discipline Development and Research Circumstances

  CCE possesses one Ph.D. program (i.e. forest engineering), three first-level discipline Master programs (i.e. Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Management Science and Engineering), three professional degree category (i.e. Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Engineering Management), and a post-doctoral mobile station (i.e. Forest Engineering). Forest Engineering is a national key discipline and a national Double first-class discipline. The discipline of Civil Engineering was established in 1952, the Road and Railway Engineering Master’s Degree Program was established in 2003, the Geotechnical Engineering Master’s Degree Program was established in 2005. In 2011, CCE obtained the Master’s degree level subjects of Civil Engineering and Transportation Engineering. Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering to be specific has been continuously awarded as the “Key Discipline” in Jiangsu Province, one of the supportive disciplines of “double first-class” A+ discipline of Forestry Engineering in NJFU, and a major contribution to the discipline of engineering and material science (ESI top 1%).

  CCE has set up “Jiangsu Highway Intelligent Detection and Low-Carbon Maintenance Engineering Research Center”, “Jiangsu Bamboo and Wood Carbon Sequestration Materials and Structural Technology Research Center”, “Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forestry Resources”, “Bamboo Engineering Technology Research Center, State Forestry Administration”, “Jiangsu Construction Industry Modernization Demonstration Base (e.g. Design, Research and Development Demonstration Base of Bamboo and Wood Prefabricated Building Full Industrial Chain), etc. CCE jointly built the National and local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomass Materials, Jiangsu University Forestry Biomass Materials and Energy International Cooperation Joint Laboratory, Jiangsu Housing Engineering Research Center and Key Laboratory of Soil and Water Conservation and Ecological Restoration. CCE also possesses 17 provincial graduate workstations, and five of them were the winners of the “Provincial Outstanding Graduate Workstations”.

  CCE Civil Engineering Central Laboratory is the experimental and teaching demonstration center of Jiangsu Province. The Central Laboratory covers an area of more than 6000 m2, is equipped with a 100 T multi-channel electro-hydraulic servo structure testing system, 100 T structural fatigue testing system, 500 T long column testing machine, 300 T high stiffness pressure testing machine, asphalt mixture fatigue testing machine, etc. In addition, CCE is also equipped with different analyzers such as automatic mercury injection apparatus, rheometer, particle size analyzer, cement hardening porosity analyzer, etc. CCE holds a new platform for full digital photogrammetry, and simulation experiment on BIM workstations. The instruments in CCE worth more than 60 million yuan, can meet different kinds of requirements on measurement and evaluation.

• Research and technology services

  CCE has more than 50 National Natural Science Foundation projects funded, preside over the preparation and participate in the preparation of more than 20 ISO, national and industry standards, and won one Second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (ranking 3rd), nearly 20 Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards, presided over 3 second prizes of Ministry of Education Award, and more than 10 National Industry Associations Awards . In CCE, there are more than 200 SCI journal papers and 50 patents published, and the research funding is nearly 20 million yuan each year. CCE also participated in more than 100 scientific research and technological service projects entrusted by local government and enterprises.

  Over the years, CEE was involved in the Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed, Ji-Qi high-speed, Yi-Chang high-speed, Beijing-Shanghai reconstruction and expansion projects; participated in the Reconstruction and the Nanjing Yangtze River bridge, Project of the second, third, fourth Nanjing Yangtze River bridge, Xianxin Rd Yangtze River-crossing tunnel, Puyi Rd Yangtze River-crossing bridge; participated in Sutong Bridge, Chongqi Bridge and other Bridges across the river and sea; participated in Nanjing subway, Suzhou subway, Wuxi subway, Ningbo subway, Ninghe intercity railway and Wanhui intercity railway; participated in the after-earthquake reconstruction projects (e.g. Wenchuan and Yushu) and other national key projects to tackle critical scientific and technological problems and construction tasks. Research findings provide reliable technical support and effective solutions for local and regional major engineering projects.

  CCE has developed distinct characteristics and advantages in green civil engineering materials, new bamboo and wood structure system , green rock and soil reinforcement technology, road and bridge construction and maintenance, municipal water treatment and environmental restoration, etc. Owning to these characteristics and advantages, CCE plays an important role in the domestic industry, and has been praised by Jiangsu province and Nanjing municipal government for multiple times.

  CEE has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with universities and scientific research institutions in many countries (e.g. United States, Germany, Britain, Russia, Australia, Canada, Japan, France, and Italy, etc).

（English version is updated on 29/07/2025）