Suzhou University, formerly known as Suzhou University (Suzhou University, founded in 1900), is the first university in China with a modern university discipline system, which pioneered modern higher education and blended the excellence of Chinese and Western cultures. In the history of higher education in China, Soochow University is the first university to carry out postgraduate education and award a master's degree, the first university to carry out professional education in law (Anglo-American law) and the first university to establish a periodical.
1952, the departments of Chinese mainland were adjusted, and the College of Arts and Sciences of Soochow University, the School of Culture and Education of Sunan and the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Jiangnan University merged to form Sunan Normal University, which was renamed Jiangsu Normal University in the same year.
1982, the school was renamed Suzhou University. Subsequently, Suzhou Sericulture Institute (1995), Suzhou Silk Vocational and Technical College (1997) and Suzhou Medical College (2000) were merged into Suzhou University. From the bright stars in the Republic of China to the pioneering and innovation in the Republic of China, from the persistence of the normal education context to the strategic transformation and return of comprehensive universities, from the leap-forward development of multi-school merger to creating new glories, Suzhou University has left a great legacy in the history of higher education in China.
For more than a century, generations of Su adults have always adhered to the school motto of "cultivating the meaning of heaven and earth, cultivating ancient and modern laws", insisting on academic supremacy, applying what they have learned, advocating freedom, openness, tolerance, pursuing Excellence, persisting in erudition, stopping at perfection, and devoting themselves to cultivating model citizens with "free spirit, excellent ability, independent personality and social responsibility".
In the long-term process of running a school, it has sent more than 500,000 professionals to the society, including many elite pillars and celebrities such as Xu De, Fei Xiaotong, Lei Jieqiong, Zhao Puchu, Qian Weichang, Dong Yinchu, Ni Zhengri Ao (Y), Zheng Pijiang, Yang Tieke, and (Jin Yong): Tan, Chen Ziyuan, Yu, Song Da.
Suzhou University has twelve disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art.
There are 30 colleges (departments) in the school, with 27,734 full-time undergraduates, 4,202 doctoral students and 327 international students. The school now has 132 undergraduate majors, 50 first-class master's programs, 24 professional master's programs, 28 first-class doctoral programs, 1 professional doctoral programs, and 30 postdoctoral mobile stations. National first-class disciplines 1 discipline, 4 national key disciplines, 20 dominant disciplines in Jiangsu universities, and 9 key disciplines in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" of Jiangsu Province.
Up to now, four disciplines such as chemistry, physics, materials science, clinical medicine, engineering, pharmacy and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, neuroscience and behavioral science, molecular biology and genetics, immunology, mathematics, computer science, agricultural science, environmental science, ecology, etc. 1% before entering the global essential science indicators (ESI), chemistry and materials.
At present, the school has 2 national talent training bases, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 2 national innovative experimental zones for talent training mode, 3 national off-campus practical teaching bases for college students, and 2065438.
1 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, 1 State Key Laboratory jointly established by the Ministry of Education, 1 National Engineering Laboratory, 2 national and local joint engineering laboratories, 2 national joint research centers for international cooperation, 1 National Clinical Medical Research Center and 3 national public service platforms.
1 National University Science Park, 1 Jiangsu State Key Laboratory Cultivation and Construction Site, 4 Jiangsu University Collaborative Innovation Centers, 23 provincial and ministerial key research bases of Zheshe, 30 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 10 provincial and ministerial public service platform, and 5 provincial and ministerial engineering centers.
The school has 553 faculty members 1 person and 324 full-time teachers/person, including Nobel Prize winners 1 person, 8 academicians of the two academies, 5 academicians of developed countries, 29 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 38 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and outstanding talents of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program"1person.
At present, there are more than 230 national-level talents, including 3 top-notch young talents in the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" and 6 members of the the State Council academic degree evaluation committee Discipline Appraisal Group. A strong, reasonable and energetic talent team has been formed.
Suzhou University regards talent training as the central work of the school, takes moral education as the foundation, aims at cultivating outstanding talents with a sense of responsibility, innovation, application and internationalization, takes the integration of general education and professional education as the guidance, and focuses on improving students' comprehensive quality, consolidating professional foundation and cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial ability.
Actively deepen the reform of personnel training system and continuously improve the quality of personnel training. Nanoscience and Technology College was listed as one of the first batch of 17 national pilot colleges in China and became a special zone for the reform of higher education system and mechanism.
The school has set up three colleges and actively explored new modes of personnel training. Among them, the academy is positioned as the "second classroom" besides professional education, while the Tang Academy conducts liberal arts education in the "first classroom", and Ziqing Academy is committed to creating a testing ground for top-notch innovative talents to grow into talents. In 20 18, the school won 5 national teaching achievement awards and 10 national excellent online courses, ranking 1 1 among national universities.
In 20 19, the school was awarded 14 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites and 4 provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites. In recent years, students of Su University have won more than 200 national awards every year, and won prizes in various competitions at home and abroad, such as the National Challenge Cup and the Olympic Games. 20 18, a master student published a paper in Nature as the first author.
The school has implemented the strategy of "indomitable spirit" and achieved fruitful results in scientific research and innovation. In the field of humanities and social sciences, in 20 19, 47 projects were approved by the National Social Science Fund, including 5 major projects, and the number of major art projects of the National Social Science Fund and major research projects of "integrating socialist core values into the rule of law" ranked first in the country; The number of projects funded by the National Social Science Fund in the later period ranks first in the province;
Soochow Think Tank was selected as "China Core Think Tank" and "Top 100 Think Tanks in China Universities", and the number of papers published in authoritative core journals in recent five years ranked 23rd in the national natural science field. In 20 19, Dongwu think tank won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award 1, the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award 2, the Outstanding Achievement Award (Science and Technology) of the Ministry of Education and the Youth Science Award 65438.
Approved four key special projects of the national key R&D plan, 10 project and 1 major national defense project; In the whole year, 4,400 papers were published in three major retrieval papers, among which 2,684 papers were included in SCIE, ranking 24th among universities in China. In the comprehensive ranking of natural index, the university ranks 49th in the world and 1 1 in the whole country.
19 people were selected as "global highly cited scientists", ranking fifth among universities in China; In 200 1 year, 508 domestic invention patents and 9 international patents were granted with intellectual property rights 1085, which won the China Patent Excellence Award 1 item and transferred the licensed intellectual property rights1item. By February, 2020, 702 patents have been registered and come into effect in China National Intellectual Property Administration, ranking 10th among universities in China.
In accordance with the development idea of "promoting domestic first-class with international popularity", the school has comprehensively and deeply promoted the process of internationalization of education. The school has established inter-school exchange relations with more than 200 universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions. The school enrolls more than 3,000 international students from more than 80 countries or regions every year.
Since 2007, the school has cooperated with Portland State University to establish the Confucius Institute at Portland State University: 20 10 was selected as the "20+20 Cooperation Plan for Chinese and African Universities" by the Ministry of Education, and aided the construction of Lagos University in Nigeria: 2010 successfully established Suzhou University, the first overseas university in China.
The school has become an important post and cultural card in the national "Belt and Road Initiative": 20 18, and the school initiated the establishment of the China-ASEAN Medical Education University Alliance to build a healthy destiny community between China and ASEAN and promote the construction of the "Belt and Road"; 20 19 The Red Cross International College of Suzhou University was established to help build a community of human destiny.
Suzhou University has four campuses, namely Tianci Zhuang Campus, Dushu Lake Campus, Yangcheng Lake Campus and Future Campus, covering an area of 4,586 mu, with a building area of 1.59 million square meters. The school is rich in books and materials, with a collection of more than 5 million volumes, more than 400,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals, more than one Chinese and foreign electronic book 1 100000, and 82 Chinese and foreign databases.
The school hosts three periodicals, namely, Journal of Suzhou University Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition and Education Science and Law Edition, as well as professional academic periodicals such as Algebra Collection, Modern Silk Science and Technology, China Hemorheology, and Language and Semiotics Research.
Among them, Journal of Suzhou University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) has been reprinted and edited by authoritative second-class documents such as Xinhua Digest and People's Congress Copying Newspapers and Materials in recent five years, and its reprinted volume has been in the top ten journals of comprehensive universities. According to the Comprehensive Evaluation Report of China Humanities and Social Sciences Journal AMI (20 18) published by China Social Sciences Evaluation Institute in 2018,
Journal of Suzhou University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) and Journal of Suzhou University (Education Science Edition) were both rated as national core journals of humanities and social sciences. According to the catalogue of CSSCI source journals and extended source journals published by China Social Science Research and Evaluation Center of Nanjing University (20 19 2020), Journal of Suzhou University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition).
The new era breeds new opportunities and calls for new actions. With a high-spirited attitude, an open mind and a global vision, the Su people are adhering to the concept of strengthening the school with talents, quality and culture, relying on the strong economic strength and superior human location conditions in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Strive to build the school into a domestic first-class and internationally renowned high-level research university, and become an important base for regional high-quality innovation and entrepreneurship personnel training, high-level scientific research and high-tech research and development, and high-level decision-making consultation.