Motto 笃学尚行，止于至善 Chancellor Wu Guilong Number of students 30,000 | Type Public President Chen Jian Phone +86 510 8591 5666 Founded 1909 | |
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Motto in English Learning and Practice to Perfection Established Traced to 1902, established in 1958, reformed and renamed in 2001 Similar Southeast University, Soochow University, Donghua University, Hohai University, Nanjing University of Scienc | ||
Jiangnan university
Jiangnan University (simplified Chinese: 江南大学; traditional Chinese: 江南大學; pinyin: Jiāngnán Dàxué), JU, literally "Southern Yangtze University") is a university located in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. It is a key national university of the “Project 211” and is directly administrated by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
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Reputed as the “Pearl of China’s Light Industry Higher Education”, Jiangnan University ( former Wuxi Institute of Light Industry 无锡轻工业学院) is the cradle, and one of the major supporting institutions, of China's light industry, food science and fermentation technology.
Its roots may stretch back to 1902 when its predecessor, San Jiang Normal School ( 三江师范学堂 ), began its first term. More than a hundred years of development and fifty years of independent education have brought Jiangnan University recognition in scientific research, teaching quality and social service locally and domestically. It is now recognized and highly respected as a comprehensive university.
The distinguished disciplines are food science and technology, fermentation, chemical technology for light industry, mechanical and control engineering for light industry, textile engineering and industrial design.
Jiangnan university
History
The root of Jiangnan University stretches back to San Jiang Normal School which was founded in Nanjing in 1902 which later renamed National Central University and Nanjing University. The private Jiangnan University, another source of JU, was founded in Wuxi in 1948 by Rong Desheng (the father of Rong Yiren), the largest national capitalist in the Republic of China era. Later during restructuring of higher education happened after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the engineering related departments of Nanjing University merged related departments of private Jiangnan University and several other universities and formed Nanjing Institute of Technology (later renamed Southeast University) in 1952, and in 1958, the related department of Nanjing Institute of Technology moved to Wuxi and established Wuxi College of Light Industry which was named university in 1995. In 2001, Jiangnan University was formed by the combination of Wuxi University of Light Industry（无锡轻工大学）, Jiangnan College （江南学院） and Wuxi Education College （无锡教育学院）.
Campus
The newly completed university campus covers 208 hectares with floor space of 1.05 million square meters. It is located by Lake Tai, a national scenic resort in the south of Wuxi. It was designed and built to demonstrate the concept of an “Eco-campus”.
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Schools
Jiangnan University consists of 17 schools and offers 48 undergraduate programs with 10 disciplines including engineering, science, literature, economics, management, law, medicine, agriculture, education and arts. Jiangnan University has 5 Post-doctoral Research Stations in the fields of Light Industry Technology and Engineering, Food Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Control Science and Engineering, and Textile Engineering. It is entitled to confer master's degrees in 58 programs, and doctoral degrees in 28 programs.
School of Food Science and Technology
School of Biotechnology
School of Chemical and Material Engineering
School of Textile and Clothing
School of Mechanical Engineering
School of Internet of Things Engineering (incorporated by School of Communications and Control Engineering and School of Information Engineering)
School of Environmental & Civil Engineering
School of Science
School of Humanities
School of Design
School of Digital Media
School of Business
Wuxi Medical School
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Applied Research
The National Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, approved by the Ministry of Science & Technology, is the only one of its kind in China. In addition, it has 19 national, ministerial or provincial engineering research centers, 7 key labs at the ministerial or provincial level, the Food Safety Research Base of Jiangsu Province, the Scientific and Technological Novelty Search Workstation of Ministry of Education, the Industrial Microbial Resources Database Integration and Information Sharing Platform.
Students
Currently there are over 20,000 full-time undergraduates, 6,700 doctoral and master candidates studying on campus.
Notable Faculties
The faculty team consists of over 1,600 members including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 Cheung Kong Scholars, 3 National Outstanding Youth Foundation Winner, 8 state-level candidates for the One Hundred plus One Thousand plus Ten Thousand Talents Project of the New Century, 3 National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, 48 candidates for the New Century Excellent Researcher Award Program from Ministry of Education of China and over 1100 professors and associate professors.