The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Nanjing University was found in 1920, and it is one of the earliest departments of chemistry in China.Afterwards, the primeval National Central University's Chemistry Discipline united with Jinling University's Chemistry Discipline to form the Department of Chemistry of Nanjing University.Till 1993, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering was established.The school was one of the first institutes that were approved to operate the chemistry PhD program in China.In 2003, 2009 and 2012, it was ranked 2nd, 3rd and 2nd, respectively, in the national disciplinary assessments organized by the Ministry of Education (MOE).