21 Best Natural Sciences Bachelor's Degree Programs in China for 2024

Develop broad vision and intuition as you probe the principles and properties of matter, space, and time in our bachelor’s program in Physics. You’ll learn to make interdisciplinary connections between the branches of physics—high energy physics, astrophysics, atomic, molecular, and optics physics, condensed matter physics—and other scientific fields.

Explore the mysteries of life while receiving an intensive and solid education in modern biology—including biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, developmental biology, and neurobiology. In our bachelor’s program in Biological Sciences, you will learn to utilize modern technologies and tools in genomics, proteomics, genome editing, and biomolecule design, and you can also conduct interdisciplinary studies in these and other fields.

Learn the conceptual frameworks and art of chemical experimentation used by working chemists to understand, predict, and manipulate matter at the atomic and molecular levels. Our bachelor’s program in Chemistry covers a wide variety of active research areas—including organic, inorganic, analytical, physical, theoretical, biochemical, and materials chemistry—and offers interdisciplinary opportunities to study chemical physics and chemical biology.

This major is a provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilot major. It has 5 teaching experiment platforms, 3 engineering training sharing platforms; 1 student science and technology practice innovation center (teacher skill training center) and physics teacher skill learning club; it has multiple teaching practice bases in the Pearl River Delta region. After the implementation of the comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination, the employment demand for graduates of this major has increased significantly.

The school's Biological Sciences and Biotechnology programs are among the key programs of Inner Mongolia, while the Center for Experiment Management is one of the autonomous region's demonstration centers for experimental education. It offers seven high-quality courses at the provincial level and 21 at the university level. In recent years, the school's achievements in undergraduate education included a first-class award granted by the university, a second-class award in ethnic education given by the autonomous region, and a first-class award from the 13th National Multimedia Courseware Competition.

The BSc in Environmental Science programme gives you an understanding of the natural world and environmental problems caused by development.

Bioinformatics combines computer science with molecular biology to give you fundamental insights into life processes. The need for bioinformatics has been triggered by huge scientific advances in collecting biological data.

The Department of Geographic Information Science is developed from a research office which was set up in 2001. In 2006, the Department of Geographic Information Engineering was established, which was renamed the Department of Geographic Information Science in 2012. Accordingly, we established the undergraduate programs of Geographic Information System, Geographic Information Science, and Geospatial Information Engineering in 2000, 2012, and 2019, respectively.

The BSc (Hons) in Chemistry 2+2 programme is designed to exploit your curiosity for chemistry, to provide an advanced understanding of the core principles and topics of chemistry, to encourage you to express your ideas clearly and logically, to develop your approach towards independent learning, and to adapt to a wide variety of careers in the knowledge-based economy of the 21st century.

The School of Nuclear Science and Engineering (SNSE) was established based on the preponderant disciplines in North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), aiming to implement the national policy about “the medium and long term development plan of nuclear power”. This school is also the core component of the education system with “Big Electric Power” features which is built with emphasis on subjects related to new type energy. 　　SNSE was founded in 2007. Having two provincial and ministerial key laboratories (Beijing Key Laboratory of Passive Safety Technology for Nuclear Energy and State Energy Key Laboratory of Nuclear Power Software), SNSE is granted the right to confer doctoral degree in the second-level discipline Nuclear Power and Power Engineering and master degree in the first-level discipline Nuclear Science and Technology. The school possesses the national experimental teaching center for Full-scope Virtual Simulation of Nuclear Power Engineering and the national base for Practical Education of Nuclear Power Engineering. The first level subject “Nuclear Science and Technology” ranked the 9th in the China Discipline Ranking.

This program aims to provide students with basic knowledge, theories, and skills in chemistry and enable them to seek such careers as teaching, scientific research, and administration in the field of chemistry and other fields related to chemistry.

This program aims to equip students with basic physics theory, basic skills in conducting experiments, and the ability to engage in scientific research; and to enable them to become qualified middle-school teachers of physics and specialized personnel able to engage in work related to physics.

The BSc Applied Chemistry provides you with a broad understanding of applied chemistry, drawing on the Department of Chemistry’s emerging research strengths in new materials, clean and renewable energy, pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

This major cultivates basic theories and basic knowledge in chemistry, chemical engineering and technology, materials science and engineering; accepts basic chemistry and chemical experiment skills, organic synthesis, polymer material synthesis and processing, engineering practice and scientific research, etc. Training; compound technical talents with the ability to engage in chemical and new materials application research, technology development, and technology management.

As one of the alliance units for the technical and innovative strategy in the South China medicine and Li ethnic medicine industry, it has been comprehensively developing its national specialties, provincial key disciplines, and provincial key laboratories. There are 2 undergraduate majors.

This major cultivates high-quality applied talents who have comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique, and beauty, possess humanistic spirit, scientific spirit, and national unity spirit, and are capable of serving local economic and social development.

Founded in 1986, Pharmacological College is one of the oldest schools of the university. Formerly the Department of Chinese Medicine, it was renamed as the Department of Pharmaceutics in 1999 and then again renamed as School of Pharmaceutics in 2006. The school offered the vocational specialty of Chinese medicine in 1986, the Chinese medicine undergraduate specialty in 1994, the pharmaceutical preparation specialty in 2000, the pharmaceutics specialty in 2001, the food science and engineering specialty in 2003, and the medical herb cultivation and certification specialty. Currently, the school has five undergraduate specialties, three research institutes of pharmaceutical preparation, Chinese medicine resources and pharmacology respectively, five faulty offices for pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceutical chemistry, food, mathematics, and Chinese medicine, as well as six Zhejiang province key laboratories such as the Chinese medical preparation laboratory and Chinese medicine resource engineering laboratory, etc.; it has two tier-one-discipline postgraduate study programs for Chinese medicine and pharmaceutics, one Chinese medicine doctorate program and one Chinese medicine postdoctoral mobile research station; it is one of the few colleges that have in place a rather complete list of medical disciplines, are concentrated both in Chinese and western medicines, and capable of cultivation high-level talents including college students, masters and doctors.

This major cultivates comprehensive development in moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic aspects, possesses systematic knowledge and basic skills in veterinary medicine, education, etc., and can be engaged in veterinary medicine, veterinary education, veterinary medicine in veterinary business departments, animal production units and related departments Applied talents in management and law enforcement, veterinary technical services, veterinary public health, and food safety.

Biology is one of the most exciting scientific disciplines of the 21st century. The insights it provides into life processes, together with recent advances in genomics, diagnostics and therapeutic drug development, are having a major impact on humanity.

This program combines the study of theories, research methods, and pharmaceutical production techniques. Students receive training in formulation design, process designing, quality control, pharmacy analysis. The program trains senior technicians in the fields of pharmaceutical research and development, pharmaceutics production, quality control, pharmaceutical entrepreneur management.