Jiangsu Ocean University

Jiangsu Ocean University is a full-time undergraduate university in Jiangsu Province. Huaihai University, formerly Known as Huaihai University, was founded in 1985. In 1989, it was approved as Huaihai Institute of Technology by the Ministry of Education. From 1998 to 2002, the former Jiangsu Salt Industry School, Lianyungang Fishery School and Lianyungang Chemical Engineering College, all with a history of more than 40 years, were merged into Huaihai Institute of Technology. In June 2019, the Ministry of Education approved the school to change its name to Jiangsu Ocean University. The history of Marine higher education can be traced back to xinhailian Fisheries College (later renamed Lianyungang Fisheries College), which was founded in 1958. In August 2013, the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council approved the university to grant master’s degrees. In July 2017, THE university became the project construction unit for doctoral degree awarding.

The university is located in Lianyungang city, the core and pilot area of the “Belt and Road” initiative, the eastern bridgehead of the Eurasian Continental Bridge, and the first batch of open coastal cities in China. Existing cangwu campus, Tong Guan campus, Song Hop campus and market lane campus four campuses, the main campus (Cangwu campus) is located in the 5A national scenic spot, “Journey to the West” culture birthplace of Huagao Mountain west foot, a total area of 2184.87 mu, school area 645,300 square meters. There are more than 1600 faculty members, including more than 20000 full-time undergraduates and 1200 graduate students. The university has 20 schools offering 69 undergraduate majors covering ten disciplines including engineering, science, management, literature, agriculture, law, economics, art, education and medicine.

The university has a team of teachers who love the cause of higher education, have both teaching and research abilities, attach equal importance to theory and practice, and are both virtuous and knowledgeable. Among the 1,213 full-time teachers, 620 have senior professional titles, including 163 full professors and 459 doctors. There are 2 national excellent teachers and 2 Famous Teachers in Jiangsu Province. There are 2 jiangsu High-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talents Introduction Plan, 4 Jiangsu distinguished professors, 3 Young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Jiangsu Province, and 2 Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Fund winners. 242 people have been selected into provincial and ministerial talent projects, such as “333 High-level Talents” training project of Jiangsu Province, Qinglan Project of Higher Education institutions of Jiangsu Province, and six Talent peaks of Jiangsu Province. There are 3 excellent teaching teams of Qinglan Project and 8 scientific and technological innovation and talent teams of Jiangsu Province. More than 100 teachers are employed as adjunct professors, doctoral supervisors and master supervisors by domestic and foreign universities. The university has invited a number of famous experts and scholars such as Academician Jiang Xingwei to serve as part-time professors.

The school insists on personnel training as the center, and strives to cultivate comprehensive applied talents with good foundation, high quality, strong ability, Marine awareness, innovative spirit and national feelings. The construction of the specialty closely focuses on the needs of local transformation of economic development mode, and constantly increases the efforts of adjustment and development. Currently has eight national first-class undergraduate specialty construction points, four engineering education professional certification by the Ministry of Education, three national characteristic specialty, 2 national comprehensive reform pilot project, 4 the first phase of jiangsu provincial brand professional construction engineering project, 9 points, nine first-class undergraduate majors in jiangsu province construction characteristic specialty, nine focus in jiangsu province, jiangsu province (class).

Guided by curriculum ideology and politics, and in accordance with the general requirements of “broadening the basis, attaching importance to application and strengthening quality”, the school has continuously expanded the total number of courses, optimized the curriculum structure, reformed the teaching mode, and actively created first-class courses. It has built a first-class talent training curriculum system with a clear mapping relationship to students’ values, comprehensive quality and ability structure, including 2 national first-class undergraduate courses and 16 provincial high-quality online open courses. The education and teaching reform of the school continues to deepen, and the school undertakes the “National Education System reform pilot Project — Comprehensive Credit System Reform” of Jiangsu Province. The project has passed the acceptance appraisal hosted by the provincial Department of Education, and has been selected as a typical case of national education reform and innovation. In recent five years, the school has won two second prizes of national Excellent Teaching Achievements, two first prizes and seven second prizes of Jiangsu Excellent Teaching Achievements. The student dragon boat team has won the Chinese College Dragon boat Championship for four consecutive times and the world College Dragon boat Championship for three times. More than 3600 students have won prizes in national and provincial competitions.

With scientific research and social services as its two wings, the university strives to provide intellectual contributions and technical support for local economic and social development. According to the national strategic needs and regional development characteristics, the discipline structure and discipline direction should be optimized. Marine Science is the dominant discipline in Jiangsu Province, and mechanical engineering is the key (cultivated) discipline in Jiangsu Province. Control Science and Engineering, computer Science and technology, biological engineering, materials Science and engineering, pharmacy, Chinese Language and Literature, and applied Economics are the key disciplines of Jiangsu Province. The university has 6 master’s degree programs in first-level disciplines and 5 professional master’s degree programs. The university has established a number of scientific and technological r&d and service platforms with distinctive Marine characteristics and strong disciplinary strength. There are 1 post-doctoral research station, 10 provincial key laboratories and engineering research centers, 1 provincial key research base for social sciences, 1 provincial cultivation base for social sciences, and 1 provincial collaborative innovation center. In May 2021, the University Science park of Jiangsu Ocean University was recognized as a National University Science park by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education. In recent years, it has won 53 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards, including 2 national science and technology awards.

The university has won many honors, such as national Advanced Collective of Internal Audit, National Advanced Unit of Social Practice of College Students, Model of Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province, Advanced Unit of Faculty Construction of Jiangsu Province, Advanced University of Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province, and Excellent Unit of Graduate Enrollment Management of Jiangsu Province.

The 21st century is the century of oceans. At present, the entire school teachers and students are closely around the national Marine power strategy and “area” construction, to fully implement the provincial government decision deployment, is located in the coastal city of location advantages into full play, tight butt area ocean emerging industries, to speed up the pace of reform and development, enhance educational quality, in order to speed up the construction of high level application research ocean university, Work hard to provide education that satisfies the Party and the people.