The Journalism program in NNU was initiated in 1962, and, through five decades’ development, has become a core program in the School of Journalism and Communication. This program was appraised as a key discipline of Jiangsu Province in 2001, and awarded the qualification of conferring master’s degree in 1996 and doctoral degree in 2005, making it the first doctoral program in Journalism in Jiangsu Province and also the first one among China’s normal universities. This program is also national-level characteristic one, whose performances of researches into media and rural development and media law are top in China.

In teaching, the top priority of the Journalism program is given to cultivating the learning style of independent thinking and the awareness of aggressiveness and innovation, together with curriculum arrangement optimization, discipline characteristics enhancement and market demand satisfaction, to explore a talent training mode befitting the development needs of journalism. In hardware, superior experiment conditions are available for this program, including an electronic editing laboratory, a telephone survey laboratory and a media data acquisition center. Profound teaching staff strength, powerful scientific research capacities and advanced laboratory equipment contribute to the outstanding teaching achievements in the Journalism program. Additionally, in this program, close cooperation and communication are maintained with important academic institutions and media organizations both at home and abroad; outstanding experts, scholars, editors and journalists are regularly invited and employed to deliver lecture series to students in this program, expanding their scope of knowledge and developing their role awareness.

The cultivation objectives of this program are: educate and cultivate professional talents with systematic theoretical knowledge and skills of journalism, extensive cultural and scientific knowledge, familiarity with Chinese policies and laws on journalism and propaganda, innovative spirit and practical ability for media organizations at various levels; educate and cultivate journalism talents knowing journalism business, editing techniques and public relations skills for social organizations (e.g. enterprises, institutions and social groups); educate and cultivate journalism talents with the ability of governmental information release, international communication and public relations in crisis for governmental agencies; educate and cultivate interdisciplinary talents knowing content acquisition, production, editing, management and mastering necessary network techniques for telecommunications agencies; educate and cultivate interdisciplinary talents with abilities of news communication, contents production, network editing and operational management for various commercial websites in public.

A large number of excellent graduates from this program have been working actively in new media organizations, Party and governmental organs, universities and colleges at various levels in China, as an important force for the development of Chinese journalism and journalism education.

1. Application Form

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2. Health certificate

Photocopy of notarized foreigner physical examination record (for durations of study over 6 months)

3. Certificate/diploma of highest education

Graduation certificate in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.

4. Passport photo

A recent passport-sized photo of the applicant

5. Photocopy of valid passport

With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included

6. Certificate of HSK

Certificate of HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test)

7. Academic transcript of highest education

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