With the rapid growth of international students, the facilities conditions of international student accommodation are improving constantly. Since January 2015, the school has carried out professional accommodation management and standardized finance management to international students’ accommodation.

Presently, there are 3 apartments offering rooms to international students in WeiGang campus, including the Foreign Expert Apartment (No. 1 International Students' Apartment), No. 2 International Student Apartment and No. 3 International Student Apartment. There are four room types in three apartments: single room, double room, triple room and suite. All the rooms provide a unified toilet, water heater, furniture, beds, air conditioner, network interface and so on. The public facilities in public area include a kitchen (with refrigerator, electromagnetic oven and microwave oven, kitchens are only provided in No.1 and No.2 international student apartments), a laundry room (with a washing machine and dryer), a billiard room, a tennis room, a report hall, etc.

On the basis of Nanjing Agricultural University International Student Apartment Management Regulation (NAU 2015, No.134), accommodation fees charging policies and payment methods are as follows:

1.Apartment Name, Type and Fees Standard

2. Apartment Fees, Water & Electricity Bill Payment Method

Accommodation Payment: There are two time slots in each academic year to deduct the dormitory fees: the first time deduction is between October 20^th and November 15^thfor each autumn semester to deduct the dormitory fees from July 1st to December 31st of the same autumn semester; the second deduction is between February 20th and March 15th for the spring semester to deduct the dormitory fees from January 1st to June 30th of the same spring semester. The room arrangement name list, dormitory charging policies, payment amount are provided by the College of International Education, while the deduction will be carried out by financial department. The students who choose to live in campus dormitories please deposit enough amount in your personal bank card (Bank of China) before October 15th and February 15th in advance. You can get your dormitory payment receipt according to the notice of COIE. For the students who fail to pay the dormitory on time, if any, shall be handled by the College of International Education in the form of written notice to inform the paying deadline, then the financial department will make the second time deduction. For the students who fail to pay on time for the second time, if there are no special circumstances, shall be regarded as violation of university regulation.

Water& Electricity Payment: Each room is equipped with a smart electricity meter and matches with one electricity card. The price for each unit is 0.7 yuan (including room water usage). When you are going to recharge your card, you need to take with your electricity card and cash. The recharging location is on the 2nd floor of the school power department office at the west end of the main building. The office contact number is 84396414, the working time is from 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and 14:00 p.m.-17:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

All international students are advised to calculate the degrees of electricity as accurately as possible according to the days of your own accommodation. The power office will not return the remaining money in your electricity card when you check out from the dormitory.

Accommodation Payment for Short Term Student Group:The program director is responsible for accommodation payment according to relevant group exchange program agreements.

The Utility Bills:The utility bills in public area, including kitchen, laundry room, reporting hall, elevator, monitoring system and corridor are free.

3. Dormitory fees issuing and payment of Scholarship students

The University will provide accommodation fees to scholarship students' personal bank card accounts quarterly according to the accommodation standards of "Notice from Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education for perfecting Chinese government scholarship funding system and improving the financing standard" [2015] No. 1 and "Jiangsu Government Jasmine Scholarship Management Method" [2014] No.10 . The scholarship students who choose to live in campus dormitories need to apply for accommodation and pay for accommodation fees and water& electricity fees the same with the other students.

4. Campus Dormitory Application, Room Shifting and Off-campus Dormitory

Campus Dormitory Application:According to the university dormitory regulation, all the new students need to submit applications through admission@njau.edu.cn before they register at university. The COIE will arrange it according to application time order. If there are no rooms available in campus dormitories, students need to choose off-campus housing.

Dormitory/Room Shifting:Students who intend to change rooms or dormitories, please submit your applications between July 1st and 20th of each year to COIE. The applications will not be accepted after this time period.

Holiday Period Accommodation:If the leaving days from the dormitory for holidays are less than half a month, dormitory fees are to be paid as usual; for leaving days from the dormitory for holidays more than half a month (including half a month) will be regarded as checking out from campus dormitory. If the student needs to return the campus dormitory, he/she should apply for it according to the application procedures.

Off-campus Housing:Students who choose off-campus accommodation need to submit application, attached with off-campus housing agreement. Postgraduate students have to get the approval and signature from supervisor first, undergraduate students have to get approval and signature from their counselors or head teachers first, then the COIE will review and give final answer .

This International Student Accommodation Fee Payment Regulationswill be implemented from October, 2015. The charging policies may be adjusted according to the change of price index and university development situation.