Yangzhou University is located in Yangzhou, the first historical and cultural city in China. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, a Class A construction university in the peak plan of high-level university construction in Jiangsu Province, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and the first university in China to run a school in combination.
The school's predecessor was Tongzhou Normal School and Tonghai Agricultural School, which were founded on 1902 by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times. 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and their majors in agriculture, literature and history moved westward to Yangzhou to form Subei Agricultural College and Subei Normal College. At the same time, four other universities were established or moved to Yangzhou.
1992, the school was formed by the merger of six universities, including Yangzhou Normal University, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Jiangsu Business School.
The school has a complete range of disciplines, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and so on 12 disciplines.
There are more than 30,700 ordinary full-time undergraduates and more than 6200 doctoral and master students/kloc-0. At present, there are 2 1 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines, 53 authorized points for master's degrees in first-class disciplines, 3 categories of authorized points for doctoral degrees, 3 1 authorized points for master's degrees and 20 post-doctoral mobile stations.
2 national key disciplines, national key (cultivation) disciplines 1, 7 provincial dominant disciplines, 15 provincial key disciplines1,chemistry, animal and plant science, engineering, agricultural science, clinical medicine, materials science, computer science, biology and biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, environmental ecology, microbiology and other disciplines/kloc-0.