History and overview
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. 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. 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.
Schools and departments
The university is organized into the following schools and departments.
School of MedicineSchool of Medical TechnologySchool of Food and Biological EngineeringSchool of Business AdministrationSchool of Mechanical EngineeringSchool of Material Science & EngineeringSchool of Finance & EconomicsSchool of Electrical and Information EngineeringSchool of EnvironmentSchool of Computer Science and Telecommunication EngineeringSchool of ScienceSchool of Humanities and Social SciencesSchool of Foreign LanguagesSchool of ArtSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringSchool of Automotive and Traffic EngineeringSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringSchool of PharmacySchool of LawSchool of Teacher's EducationJingjiang CollegeJiangsu University maintains a large and extensive network of domestic academic and scientific collaboration with a large number of the universities in this official list of universities within the People's Republic of China (PRC) as well as with:
Macau University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China (PRC)Cornell University, Weill Cornell School of Medicine, United States of AmericaOregon Health & Science University, School of Medicine, United States of AmericaPurdue University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Rochester, United States of AmericaLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of AmericaNorthwestern Polytechnic University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Houston, United States of AmericaUniversity of Georgia, United States of AmericaAmerican University, United States of AmericaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of AmericaWashington State University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Maryland, College Park, United States of AmericaUniversity of Colorado, United States of AmericaTexas A&M University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Texas at Austin, United States of AmericaTexas Tech University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, United States of AmericaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, United States of AmericaWayne State University, United States of AmericaCalifornia Polytechnic State University, United States of AmericaCalifornia State University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Kansas, United States of AmericaKansas State University, United States of AmericaWake Forest University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Delaware, United States of AmericaUniversity of South Florida, United States of AmericaCleveland State University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Idaho, United States of AmericaOral Roberts University, United States of AmericaOregon State University, United States of AmericaUniversity of North Carolina, United States of AmericaNorth Carolina State University, United States of AmericaArcadia University, United States of AmericaSimmons College, United States of AmericaOhio State University, United States of AmericaIndiana University, United States of AmericaIndiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, United States of AmericaFlorida State University, United States of AmericaMississippi State University, United States of AmericaArcadia University, United States of AmericaUniversity of Cincinnati, United States of AmericaUniversity of Idaho, United States of AmericaNew England College of Optometry, United States of AmericaNational Academy of Engineering, United States of AmericaMississippi State University, United States of AmericaNational Taiwan University, TaiwanNational Dong Hwa University, TaiwanNational Tsing Hua University, TaiwanChienkuo Technology University, TaiwanDayeh University, TaiwanTaoyuan Innovation Institute of Technology, TaiwanNational Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, TaiwanChinese Culture University, TaiwanUniversity of Zurich, SwitzerlandUniversité Laval, CanadaUniversité du Québec, CanadaWilfrid Laurier University, CanadaYork University, CanadaMcGill University, CanadaQueen's University, CanadaRoyal Roads University, CanadaThompson Rivers University, CanadaCentennial College of Applied Arts and Technology, CanadaSaint Mary's University (Halifax), CanadaMcMaster University, CanadaUniversity of Ottawa, CanadaCarleton University, CanadaUniversity of Waterloo, CanadaBrock University, CanadaWilfrid Laurier University, CanadaUniversity of Prince Edward Island, CanadaINRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, CanadaUniversity of Turku, FinlandTurku PET Centre, FinlandNorwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayEindhoven University of Technology, NetherlandsWrocław University of Science and Technology, PolandUniversity of Gdańsk, PolandUniversity of Padova, ItalyUniversité de Montpellier, FranceUniversité de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FranceUniversity of Sheffield, United KingdomUniversity of Chester, United KingdomUniversity of Nottingham, United KingdomUniversity of Glasgow, United KingdomUniversity of Manchester, United KingdomLancaster University, United KingdomLoughborough University, United KingdomUniversity of Leicester, United KingdomUniversity of Leeds, United KingdomUniversity of Wolverhampton, United KingdomCranfield University, United KingdomUniversity of Northampton, United KingdomBrunel University, United KingdomUniversity of Hertfordshire, United KingdomUniversity of Leeds, United KingdomEdinburgh Napier University, United KingdomUniversity of Derby, United KingdomRWTH Aachen University, GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, GermanyUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyUniversity of Göttingen, GermanyTechnische Universität Ilmenau, GermanyUniversity of Applied Sciences, Worms, GermanyAmberg-Weiden University of Applied Sciences, GermanyTechnical University of Kaiserslautern, GermanyKonstanz University of Applied Sciences, GermanyWorms University of Applied Sciences, GermanyOtto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, GermanyBaden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, GermanyDalarna University College (Högskolan Dalarna), SwedenKristianstad University College (Högskolan Kristianstad), SwedenAarhus University, DenmarkIBSS International Business School Styria, AustriaUniversity of Graz, AustriaGraz University of Technology, AustriaHiroshima University, JapanThe Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, JapanMie University, JapanNPO, JapanNational Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, JapanNagoya Sangyo University, JapanTohoku University, JapanYamaguchi University, JapanOsaka Prefecture University, JapanKyushu Institute of Foreign Languages, JapanUniversity of Shimane, JapanNational University of Singapore, SingaporeSingapore Polytechnic, SingaporeNanyang Technological University, SingaporeNanyang Creative Management, SingaporeJadavpur University, IndiaFoundation of Liberal & Management Education (FLAME School of Business), IndiaKaziranga University, IndiaBogor Agricultural University, IndonesiaParahyangan Catholic University, IndonesiaChangwon National University, South KoreaGyeongsang National University, South KoreaYeungnam University, South KoreaDaebul University, South KoreaInha University, South KoreaChungnam National University, South KoreaUniversity of Seoul, College of Engineering, South KoreaKunsan National University, South KoreaPrince of Songkla University, ThailandChiangrai Rajabhat University, ThailandChiang Mai University, ThailandUniversity of Education, Winneba, GhanaUniversity of Cape Coast, GhanaKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GhanaKoforidua Polytechnic, GhanaKumasi Polytechnic, GhanaUniversity of Education, Winneba, GhanaAccra Polytechnic, GhanaUniversity of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy, AustraliaGriffith University, AustraliaQueensland University of Technology, AustraliaKhabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, RussiaN.P.Ogarev Mordovia State University, RussiaV.N.Karazin National University, UkraineUniversity of Khartoum, SudanUniversity of Malaya, MalaysiaUniversity Malaysia Sabah, MalaysiaUniversity Utara Malaysia, MalaysiaUniversity Malaysia Kelantan, MalaysiaShahjalal University of Science and Technology, BangladeshUniversity of Juba, South SudanUpper Nile University, South SudanUniversity of Bahr El-Ghazal, South SudanRumbek University of Science and Technology, South SudanDr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology, South SudanChalimbana University, ZambiaCopperbelt University, ZambiaLewanika University, ZambiaMukuba University, ZambiaMulungushi University, ZambiaNkrumah University, ZambiaPalabana University, ZambiaRobert Kapasa Makasa University, ZambiaUniversity of Zambia, Zambia