Jiangsu University – Study in China

About Jiangsu University

Approved by the Ministry of Education in August 2001, Jiangsu University is a key comprehensive university established by the merger of the former Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang Medical College and Zhenjiang Normal College. It is a university co-established by the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. It is also one of the first batch of universities to be constructed as high-level universities in Jiangsu Province, one of the first batch of universities with national outstanding undergraduate teaching level, one of the first batch of universities with national typical experience in graduate employment, one of the first batch of universities with national typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, one of the first batch of universities with national quality certification for Overseas Study in China, and one of the national pilot universities for comprehensive reform of “Three-integrity education”.

The school has a history of one hundred years and profound cultural deposits. Original of jiangsu university of science and technology in zhenjiang agricultural machinery institute, is to carry out comrade MAO zedong about “the fundamental way out for agriculture lies in mechanization” important instructions, 1960 by nanjing institute of technology (now southeast university) set up independent school, school history can be traced back to 1902, Mr Liu, zhang zhidong started the sanjiang normal school. Schools shall be established as the first domestic agricultural machinery professional, the first system to carry out the agricultural education of colleges and universities, to implement in jiangsu, the service sector, always stick to the mission of promoting agricultural mechanization and modernization in our country, developed China’s first batch of undergraduate course of agricultural machinery, agricultural machinery, post-doctoral, master’s and the first equipment for our country agriculture talents cultivation, scientific and technological innovation, It has made positive contributions to promoting farmers’ income increase, agricultural development and rural stability, and has formed the distinctive school-running characteristics and unique cultural feelings of “agriculture in the midst of work and agriculture supported by work”.

The school has a high starting point and its comprehensive strength has been ranked among the top 100 schools in China. As early as 1978, THE University was recognized by The State Council as one of the 88 key universities in China. In 1981, it became one of the first universities authorized to confer doctor’s and master’s degrees in China. In recent years, the school has focused on connotation development and deeply implemented the development strategy of “High-level, Distinctive and international”, and its influence at home and abroad has been continuously improved. QS, THE, ARWU and other international authoritative world university rankings, THE university is among THE top1000. In the 2021 Evaluation of Chinese Universities, the university ranks 38th in China.

The school has a large scale and excellent educational conditions. The discipline covers 12 disciplines including engineering, agriculture, science, medicine, management, economics, philosophy, law, literature, education, history, art and so on. It has 27 colleges and 97 undergraduate programs. There are more than 2700 full-time teachers (37% of whom have more than one year overseas experience), and a group of high-level talents have gathered together. The university has more than 40,000 students, including more than 13,000 postgraduates and more than 2,300 overseas students. Jingjiang College of Jiangsu University has nearly 10,000 full-time students. The campus covers an area of more than 3000 mu, with various building areas of more than 1.2 million square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment is 1.21 billion yuan. The library has a floor area of 51,000 square meters and a collection of 3.22 million volumes. It has subscribed to 116 databases of various kinds and built 11 characteristic databases by itself. It also has the Scientific and technological Update Search station of the Ministry of Education, the Agricultural Equipment Document Resource Center and the International Pearl S. Buck Document Resource Center. Has a medical, education, scientific research, prevention as one of the three grade A affiliated hospital. Jiangsu University Press and magazine publishing house publishes more than 1500 kinds of books and hosts 11 international and domestic academic journals, among which “Journal of Jiangsu University” (Natural Science edition), “Journal of Jiangsu University” (Social Science edition) and “Journal of Drainage and Irrigation Machinery Engineering” are the national Core Chinese periodicals. College Education Management is a CSSCI source journal, a National Chinese core journal, and an important source journal for reprinting newspaper materials by RENMIN University of China.

The school has a high level of education, with a number of high-level disciplines. Nine disciplines of engineering, materials Science, clinical medicine, Chemistry, agricultural Science, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biology and biochemistry, environmental Ecology, molecular Biology and genetics are ranked among the top 1% in ESI, and engineering is ranked among the top 1‰, ranking 46th in ESI in China. It has 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivated) discipline and 10 advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu universities. It has 14 doctoral programs in first-level disciplines, 44 master’s programs in first-level disciplines, and 20 professional master’s degrees. There are 13 post-doctoral research stations.

The university insists on learning as the center and teaching as the main body, and constantly improves the quality of personnel training. In recent years, the school won the national teaching achievement prizes at eight, first-class professional formed in 30 countries and a group of national characteristic specialty, national first-class undergraduate courses, national excellent courses, national quality video courses, national high-quality goods resource sharing, the national experimental teaching demonstration center, the national excellent teaching team of high quality teaching resources; The employment rate of graduates has remained above 96%. Students do well in the national college students’ major events, “challenge cup” national university student extracurricular academic science and technology works of seven consecutive terms XiPeng “challenge cup” national college students business plan competition 4 consecutive terms for double gold medal, the school college men’s volleyball team has won the national championship, women’s beach volleyball team won the world university games seventh, The women’s football team won the third place in the world University futsal football Championship.

The school adheres to the principle of contribution to development, and constantly enhances its ability of scientific and technological innovation and social service. During the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, THE university has been approved by the National Natural Fund of 847 projects (ranked among the top 50 universities in China for 6 consecutive years). Up to now, the university has won 16 national Science and Technology Achievement Awards, 2 Science and Technology Innovation Awards of The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation and 3 National Outstanding Youth Fund projects. It has a number of national science and technology innovation platforms, such as the National Pump and System Engineering Technology Research Center, the National and local Hybrid Electric Vehicle Joint Engineering Center, and the National New Rural Development Research Institute. Jointly build Zhenjiang National University Science and Technology Park with Zhenjiang City; A national intellectual property training (Jiangsu) base has been established. The Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology Collaborative Innovation Center led by THE university has been identified as one of the first collaborative innovation centers among universities in Jiangsu Province. In 2015 and 2016, the number of invention patents granted by THE university ranked 6th and 8th in China respectively. In 2018, he won the 20th China Patent Prize.

The school adheres to the international opening strategy and constantly improves the level of international cooperation and exchange. It has established long-term cooperative relations with 195 universities and research institutions in 53 countries and regions, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Australia and Japan. It has jointly established the Confucius Institute and The German-Chinese Language and Culture Center with the University of Graz in Austria. It has cooperated with The University of Magdeburg in Germany and Acadia University in the United States to hold a number of joint educational projects. The Cranfield Graduate School of Future Technology of Jiangsu University, a sino-foreign cooperative educational institution, has been established. A number of international scientific research cooperation platforms have been established, including the International Joint Research Center for Health Management of Key Structures of high-end equipment, the International Joint Research Center for Energy Saving Technology of Fluid Engineering Equipment, the World Food Preservation Research Center, and the Innovation and Introduction Base for High-end Fluid Machinery equipment and Technology.

Basic information

City: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
Founded in: 1902
Type: Public
Number of total students: 40000
Number of international students: 2300
Number of faculty: 2700

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The university adheres to the principle of people-oriented, vigorously promotes the construction of harmonious campus, democracy and the rule of law and campus culture, and constantly strengthens the innovation of Party building. The Party Committee of the University has been commended by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee as the national Grass-roots Party organization with priority for Pioneering and striving, and has been awarded as the “Advanced Grassroots Party Organization of Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province” for two consecutive times. The school has won many honorary titles such as Jiangsu Civilized Unit, Harmonious Campus and Safe Campus.

New era, new goal, new journey. Jiangsu university new era will be xi jinping, the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics as a guide, in-depth study and implement general secretary xi important instructions to the school spirit, closely around khalid ents fundamental task, adhering to the “knowledge, truth, mingde school motto” and “self-improvement, thick action” pursuing Jiang Da spirit, seize the national “double top” as well as the strategic opportunity for the construction of high-level university, jiangsu province, We will unswervingly take the road of connotative development with improving quality and strengthening characteristics as the core, and strive to build the university into a “high-level, distinctive and international research-oriented university” as soon as possible.

History

Jiangsu University was established through the combination of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang Medical College and Zhenjiang Teachers’ College, under the permission of the Chinese Ministry of Education in August, 2001.[3] Its main institution was the former Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, which was one of the 88 key universities designated by the State Council in 1978.[4] Its history began with Sanjiang Normal School founded in 1902, which evolved and renamed Liangjiang Normal School in 1906, Nanjing Higher Normal School in 1915, National Southeastern University in 1921, Disi Zhongshan University in 1927, Jiangsu University in February and Central University in March 1928, and Nanjing University in 1949. Nanjing University Engineering College became Nanjing Polytechnic Institute in 1952 and then in 1960 a part of it became independent and moved to Zhenjiang next year and later became Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. It renamed Jiangsu University when merged with two colleges in the same city in 2001.

Jiangsu University (JSU) was founded in 1902 as a part of Sanjiang Normal University. It was retitled as Jiangsu University by integrating Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang Medical College and Zhenjiang Teachers’ College with the approval of the Ministry of Education of China in August, 2001. The university’s undergraduate teaching was graded excellent by the Ministry of Education in 2004. It has developed to be a national comprehensive key university. According to the Evaluations of China’s Universities in 2017, 2016 and 2015 by China Academy of Management Science, JSU is ranked 41, 48 and 55, respectively. It is committed to cultivating talents with 4C (Confidence, Communication, Cooperation and Creation). Now the university is launching the new orientation of schooling for high-level, research-oriented university with strength of engineering and strategy of internationalization.

JSU offers 88 undergraduate programs, 170 master programs, and 42 PhD programs in 10 academic fields: Engineering, Science, Management, Economics, Medicine, Law, Education, Literature and History. The university has 13 post-doctoral research stations. Distinguished among its peers for its academic rigor, the 24 schools are competing and collaborating with each other for a high-level, research-oriented university with distinctive features and internationalization strategy.

JSU has 5,763 staff members (including those of Affiliated Hospital). 2,475 are faculty members, including 450 professors. 54% of them have got Ph.D degrees and over 24% have experience of overseas study. The current total enrollment of full-time students amounts to over 33,000, including 10,000 postgraduates, 842 international students from 74 countries. Jingjiang College of Jiangsu University has an enrollment of about 10,000 full-time students.

JSU has been promoting high-level research. In the recent 5 years, the total scientific research fund amounts to 25 billion RMB, sponsored by the governments and enterprises. The authorized patents in 2014 ranked 12 and in 2015 ranked 6 among China’s universities. Five disciplines have been ranked as top 1% in ESI, such as Engineering, Clinical Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry, and Agriculture Science. Drawing on the big varieties of programs and multi-disciplinary strengths, we operate an array of research institutes and centers serving as both the academic think tanks and technological innovation source at the national and regional levels.

JSU gives priorities to the internationalization of the schooling, encouraging faculty members and students to go abroad for further studies, inviting more global talents to join us for mutual benefits, promoting international research collaboration as well as recruiting more overseas students.

JSU has signed institutional cooperation agreements with 87 universities in 30 countries and regions by June 2015. The Confucius Institute co-built by JSU and Graz University (Austria) has been operating smoothly since October 2010, followed by the opening of the collaborative Chinese-German Language and Culture Center.