Doctoral Program - Meteorology

PhD Program in Meteorology for International Students

The School of Atmospheric Science (SAS) of NUIST developed from the Department of Meteorology founded within the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology (the predecessor of NUIST) since its establishment in 1960. It was among the first batch of schools and departments that were authorized by the State Council to offer master’s degree programs in 1978. During year 1988, Synoptic Dynamics became a Key Discipline of the China Meteorological Administration, and then in 1993 SAS was authorized to offer doctoral degree program in Weather Dynamics. In 1997 Climatology became a Key Discipline of the China Meteorological Administration. Atmospheric Science, the level I discipline of SAS, was approved to be a doctoral degree program in 1998, and began to have post-doctoral workshop since 1999. Meteorology, a level II discipline of SAS, was selected as a National Key Discipline in 2002 and 2007. Atmospheric Science was then rated as a Level I Key Discipline of Jiangsu Province in 2008 and an Advantageous Discipline of Jiangsu Province in 2011. It also ranked No. 1 in the third round of national discipline evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE) in 2012. In year 2017, it became a discipline of the “Double First-Class” Initiative (a state-level initiative that aims at building first-class universities and disciplines of the world), and was rated A+ in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation of MOE.