Suzhou Open University is a new type of university with the characteristics of distance and open education. While focusing on cultivating applied talents who meet local needs and have a bachelor's degree in continuing education, it has become a shared platform and teaching guidance center for community education in Suzhou.
Suzhou Open University was renamed by Suzhou Radio and TV University with the approval of Jiangsu Provincial Government on June 20 13. Suzhou Radio and TV University, founded in 1979, is a municipal adult higher education institution that uses radio and television and modern information technology to carry out distance and open education.
Since its establishment, the school has adhered to the school-running direction of "basing itself on the local area, facing the local area, serving the local area and integrating into the local area", taken the school-running road of "active adaptation, active service and enhancing vitality", adhered to the school-running purpose of modern open education, and brought into play the advantages of distance education and systematic school-running, thus cultivating a large number of applied professionals for Suzhou.
At present, there are four campuses, namely Shihu, Ganjiang Road, tan shan and Lishe Lane, covering an area of 1.262 mu, with a school building area of 456,000 square meters, a collection of paper books 1.32 million copies, a total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment 1.48 million yuan, and a college (department)/kloc-0.