Suzhou vocational university, founded in 198 1, is a public full-time comprehensive college and one of the oldest vocational universities in Jiangsu province. On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2003, in order to further adjust the layout of local colleges and universities, optimize the structure of local higher education and improve the level and level of running local colleges and universities, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government merged Suzhou Vocational University, Suzhou Institute of Education, Suzhou Radio and TV University and Suzhou Workers' University of Science and Technology to form a municipal ordinary undergraduate college based in Suzhou, serving the local area, focusing on engineering and giving consideration to arts and sciences. The new campus is located on the shore of Shihu Lake, at the foot of Fangshan Mountain, covering an area of 1.070 mu, with a planned construction area of 380,000 square meters, and has now been built to 308,600 square meters. At present, there are mechanical and electrical engineering department, computer engineering department, electronic information engineering department, management department, teacher education department, foreign languages department, art design department, basic department, distance education college and continuing education college. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 67.27 million yuan, and there are 882,400 books and materials, with more than ten thousand ordinary full-time students/kloc-0. Staff 1025, 647 full-time teachers, associate senior high school title 194, senior high school title 17, 342 graduate students (degrees), including 23 doctoral students. The school has distinctive talent training characteristics, and the graduates always maintain a high employment rate. In 2003, 2004 and 2005, the initial employment rate of graduates reached 965%, 438+0%, 96% and 95.86% respectively, ranking among the best in similar colleges in the province. Excellent school conditions, distinctive talent training characteristics and full employment rate have won a good social reputation and become a regional brand higher vocational college. With the goal of serving the local economic and social development and cultivating higher applied talents, the school highlights the guiding ideology of "higher vocational education is service-oriented, employment-oriented and people's satisfaction", strengthens the school-running concept of "quality-oriented and scientific development", and forms the characteristics of training higher-tech applied talents with "ability as the main line, application as the purpose and innovation as the core". Specialty setting is close to Suzhou's industrial development focus and social demand for talents in short supply. There are 85 three-year majors or specialties, among which the applied electronics major is listed as a national-level teaching reform pilot major and a provincial-level brand major. Machinery, computer, secretary and Japanese are rated as provincial majors, which is one of the universities with the largest number of provincial majors and brand majors in the province. Significant achievements have been made in specialty construction and curriculum construction. * * * Won 3 second prizes for provincial excellent teaching reform achievements, 3 provincial excellent teaching materials, and compiled officially published teaching materials 185 volumes. The school has 9 experimental (training) centers, 40 professional laboratories and 5 key laboratories at the school level. The school was identified by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security as the "National Training Project for Highly Skilled Talents and Senior Technicians" electromechanical training base. In recent five years, the school has published more than 40 monographs and more than 602 papers/kloc-0 in official journals at or above the provincial level. Won 40 municipal, provincial (ministerial) scientific research achievement awards and 5 teaching and scientific research achievement awards; The Institute of Modern Testing Technology and Instrument, the Institute of Innovative Design and Integrated Manufacturing Technology and the Institute of Industrial Design have developed a variety of scientific research equipment and industrial products for famous domestic universities and well-known foreign-funded enterprises. "Wu Culture Institute" and "Law Institute" have published many monographs and achieved many research results. The school has a good foundation of industry-university cooperation with local industries and enterprises, and has long-term and stable cooperation with local enterprises in personnel training and scientific research. * * * Established 45 off-campus training bases. An advisory committee of education and teaching enterprises attended by celebrities, entrepreneurs and experts from all walks of life has been set up, and nine professional steering committees of machinery, electronics and secretarial science attended by enterprise technical experts have been set up to review the school's professional settings and teaching plans according to market demand, formulate professional competence standards, and guide the professional construction and the construction of practical teaching bases in the school. In recent years, the school has actively carried out international exchanges and cooperation, learned from foreign advanced teaching experience, attracted foreign high-quality educational resources, and cooperated effectively with foreign educational institutions such as George Brown in Canada and North Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia in organizing emerging majors, curriculum cooperation and language training. It has accumulated a lot of experience for realizing the internationalization of talent training. The school has distinctive talent training characteristics, and the graduates always maintain a high employment rate. In 2003, 2004 and 2005, the initial employment rate of graduates reached 965%, 438+0%, 96% and 96.86% respectively, ranking among the best in similar colleges in the province. Excellent school conditions, distinctive talent training characteristics and full employment rate have won a good social reputation and become a regional brand higher vocational college. Facing the new round of development opportunities, the school will take the opportunity of integrating municipal higher education resources, deepen the reform of school-running system and management system, take discipline construction and specialty construction as the breakthrough point, intensify the reform of education and teaching, improve the school-running level, and cultivate more high-level applied technical talents for Suzhou to achieve "two firsts".