Nanchang University (NCU) is a comprehensive university listed among the “the World First-class Disciplines” in the national “Double First-Class” Initiative of China, and is co-founded by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Jiangxi Province. School of Tourism, Nanchang University is the first of its kind to offer undergraduate tourism education in Jiangxi Province, with its history dating back to 1993 when the Department of Tourism was established in the university. On May 18, 2017, the Department of Tourism became independent and expanded into the current School of Tourism with strong support from Jiangxi Government, the former Jiangxi Tourism Development Commission, and Jiangxi Provincial Tourism Group. The school endeavors to build an international and open tourism school with high quality and great impact. It has become an important tourism talent cultivation base and tourism think tank platform in Jiangxi Province.

The school is composed of three departments：Department of Tourism Management, Department of Hospitality & Quality Management, and Department of Exhibition  Economy & Management. The school offers two undergraduate programs of Tourism Management and Exhibition Economy & Management, Academic Master Degrees of Tourism Administration，and Cultural heritage & Tourism Planning master degree  programs of Tourism Management, Cultural heritage & Tourism Planning, as well as one Professional Master Degree of Tourism Administration (MTA). In addition ,one doctoral program is offered in the specialty of Logistics & Tourism Administration at the second level of economic & regional management . The undergraduate program of Tourism Management was assessed as first-class undergraduate programs of Jiangxi Province and the experimental reform major subject at the provincial level. This program was selected in the list of the provincial first class undergraduate programs in 2019 and the national first-class undergraduate programs in 2020, and was recognized as the five-star undergraduate programs in Jiangxi Province in 2022.

The school has possessed three research bases under the school: Jiangxi Red Tourism Research Center, Tourism Research Institute of Nanchang University, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Making Jiangxi a Province with Strong Tourism Industry. Among them, Jiangxi Red Tourism Research Center is a national research base for red tourism innovation and development, Tourism Research Institute is a provincial research base of higher education institutions and the source of Chinese Think Tank Index (CTTI), and Collaborative Innovation Center for Making Jiangxi a Province with Strong Tourism Industry is a provincial research base of philosophy and social sciences in Jiangxi Province.

The school has 35 teaching staff, including three professors and eleven associate professors, with eighteen of them holding doctoral degrees and nine of them ever having studied overseas. Among whom one was appointed as the member of the National Supervisory Committee of Tourism Management Undergraduate Education, and one was selected as one of the young and middle-aged academic leaders of higher education institutes of Jiangxi province, one as the outstanding young and middle-aged teachers of Jiangxi province, one as the star teacher of the province, one as the star teacher of the university, and one as the education specialist of the provincial information. Besides these, the teaching fellows have also successively undertaken more than ten national research projects such as the major project of the National Social Science Fund of China, many provincial research projects such as Major Bidding Projects for Economic and Social Development of Jiangxi Province, as well as over 100 tourism planning projects, demonstrating the school’ s strong ability to serve the society.

The school currently has 299 undergraduates and 81 postgraduates. It has set up various grants, scholarships and fellowships, like Fairy Lake Scholarship of Nanchang University, Zhilv Scholarship of Nanchang University , as well as Zhipeng Grant of Nanchang University. Adhering to the education philosophy of "Extensive Touring with Intensive Treasuring", the School has actively explored the new educational mode of tourism professionals in the new era and established comprehensive strategic partnership with many government departments, scenic spots and enterprises, including Department of Culture and Tourism of Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Provincial Tourism Group, Pingxiang Wugong Mountain Scenic Area, People's Government of Wuyuan County, Shanghai Disneyland Resort, Nanchang Shangri-La Hotel, Nanchang Greenland International Expo Center, etc. In addition, the school has developed strategic partnership with Udayana University (Indonesia), Ulgench State University (Uzbekistan) and Macao Institute for Tourism Studies in terms of carrying out joint undergraduate programs, exchanges of teaching staff, research cooperation, practice & training trips, etc.

In the process of building Nanchang University into a distinguished high-level university, the School of Tourism will continue to strengthen its cooperation with governments, enterprises, universities and research institutes in an all-round, open and international manner. With an emphasis on undergraduate and postgraduate programs and taking considerable account of continuing education and vocational training, the school will be committed to cultivate high-end applied tourism management talents and endeavor to serve the economic and social development of Jiangxi, China and beyond.

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(Data by September 2022)

(Written by: Kuanbai Li; Reviewed by: Tianwei Kuang)