Yangzhou Vocational College is a full-time comprehensive higher vocational and technical college approved by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, put on record by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by Yangzhou Municipal People's Government. Established by the Education Department of Jiangsu Province and Yangzhou Municipal People's Government, it is an excellent institution for training national construction-oriented skilled personnel and evaluating the talent training level of higher vocational colleges of the Ministry of Education.

The school can be traced back to the new school in the late Qing Dynasty founded by 1906. It has successively merged with 17 schools and 1 research institutes such as Yangzhou Radio and TV University, Yangzhou Education College and Yangzhou Vocational and Technical College of Environmental Resources. As of August 20 19, the school has 22 teaching units and 68 majors.

As of February, 2022, the school has a total area of 1500 mu and a building area of more than 500,000 square meters. There are 3 17 experimental training rooms, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 230 million yuan; The library has1754,600 paper books, 2.4 million electronic books (960,000 local mirror images) and more than 4,600 Chinese and foreign paper periodicals.

There are 22 teaching units, 2 1 party and government departments, 5 teaching auxiliary units and 68 majors. Faculty 1266, full-time teachers 1 100, full-time students16,000, adult amateur and open education students16,000.