University of Nanking

For the current public university, see Nanjing University.

The University of Nanking (金陵大學) was a private university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It was sponsored by a consortium of American churches, including the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Disciples of Christ, and the Presbyterian Church. The university effectively become defunct in 1952, following the 1952 reorganization of Chinese higher education by the central government of the newly established People's Republic of China.

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