The Faculty of Sports Science Ningbo University is a disciplinary college under Ningbo University, a “Double First-Class” university in China. It has a doctoral degree program and a center for post-doctoral studies in the first-level discipline of Sports Science, a master’s degree program in the first-level discipline of Sports Science, a specialized master’s degree program in Sports Science. The Physical Education and Sports Training majors have been selected as the national first-class undergraduate major construction points, and ranked 11th and 13th respectively in the ShanghaiRanking’s China University Major Ranking 2023. The discipline of Sports Science was rated as Grade B in the fifth round of national discipline assessment. The Faculty ranked in the range of 201-300 in the “ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments 2023”, and ranked the 4th in China.
Forming a high-level teaching staff by internal gathering and external recruitment. There are 126 teaching staff in the Faculty, including 51 senior teachers, 50 teachers with doctoral degree, 35 teachers with overseas experience, and 39 doctoral and master’s supervisors. There’s 1 person selected in the “National Talent Project”, 2 persons selected in the “Famous Teachers of Higher Education in Zhejiang Province”, 2 persons selected in the second level of “151 Talent Project of Zhejiang Province in the New Century”, 2 persons selected as the trainees of “Young and Middle-Aged Academic Leaders in Zhejiang Province”, and 4 persons selected in the “Zhijiang Young Scholars of Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province”, etc.
Building a high-level research platform by integration of research institute, university and industry. The Faculty has two national superior courses, one national superior resource sharing course and two national planning textbooks. It has “Ningbo University Sports Economy Research Center”, a key research base for sports and social sciences under the General Administration of Sports of China, and the “Scientific Winter Sports Talent Training Base for Disabled” under the China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities, the Research Academy of Grand Health, Ningbo University, the “Human Sports Science Experiment and Practical Training Base” specially supported by the Ministry of Finance, the “Core Strength Training and Sports Equipment Research and Development Laboratory” supported by the Department of Finance of Zhejiang Province, the “Anta Sports and Health Equipment Research and Development Center” established in deep cooperation with “Anta”, a listed company, and the “Ningbo Institute of Physical and Medical Integration” jointly established with the Ningbo No. 2 Hospital.
Standing at a high position, undertaking national strategy, and achieving high-quality scientific research results. Over the past five years, the Faculty has undertaken 41 new provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, including more than 20 national projects, with an accumulated scientific research fund of 21.76 million yuan; more than 200 papers with our talents as the first and corresponding authors have been published in high-level journals such as China Sport Science; and more than 30 academic works have been published.
Adhering to the principle of cultivating people with moral integrity, improving the quality and efficiency of talent cultivation, and achieving fruitful results in the competition and scientific research. Students from the Faculty have superb competitive sports level: Shi Zhiyong, Wang Shun, Wang Chang, Xu Shixiao, Zhang Jingyin and other outstanding students have achieved excellent results in the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, the World University Games and other domestic and international high-level events; we have also achieved remarkable results in scientific research and education: the students have published more than 200 academic papers in high-level journals, applied for more than 10 authorized invention patents and software copyrights, more than 30 doctoral and master’s degree students have served the national swimming, weightlifting, skiing and other Summer Olympic, Winter Olympic and Paralympic programs relying on their professional advantages, and we are helping the realization of the “Olympic Glorious Program” and the “Sports Power Strategy” by science and technology. The employment rate of our graduates has remained above 95%.
Relying on international high-quality sports resources, implementing the “Belt and Road” initiative, and forming an all-round cooperation and exchange system. The Faculty has taken the lead in establishing the “China-CEEC Universities Alliance on Physical Education and Research (CCUAPER)”, and made efforts to build the “China-CEEC Sports Science Discipline Community”; it has built a high-level academic team consisting of 23 international cooperation instructors, dispatched more than 200 teachers and students to famous overseas universities in the UK, Russia and other countries for exchanges and visits, and sent 26 students to famous overseas universities to study for doctoral degrees; it has created an international brand forum on “Sport and Health” which has been successfully held for six times; and it has founded an international journal entitled Physical Activity and Health which has been included in the Scopus database and entered the Scopus Q1 area in 2023 and has been selected into the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) of Scientific and Technological Periodicals Report and the Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Journals AMI Comprehensive Evaluation System.
The Faculty of Sports Science Ningbo University has always been practicing the spirit of self-improvement, pragmatism and innovation, and the Faculty will uphold the motto of “Virtue, Study, Strength, Enjoyment”, and strive for the construction of a national and even world renowned high-level academic and research college.
Updated: September, 2024