Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a national "double first-class" university, focusing on "21engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", and was selected as the national "655".
Excellent engineer education and training program, national high-level university construction graduate program, national college students' innovation experiment program, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program, and national new engineering research and practice project.
It is a member of the * * * alliance of high-quality resources of high-level universities with industry characteristics, a member of the "One Belt, One Road" university food education science and technology alliance, a scholarship receiving institution of the China government for international students in China, a national college students' cultural quality education base, and the first batch of universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases.
Jiangnan University originated from Sanjiang Normal School founded by 1902, and experienced the development period of National Central University and Nanjing University. 1952 the food industry department of Nanjing institute of technology (now southeast university) was established by relevant departments of Nanjing university, Fudan university, Wuhan university, Zhejiang university and private Jiangnan university;
1958, the whole department moved eastward to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. 1962 Wuxi Textile Vocational and Technical College merged into Wuxi Institute of Light Industry; 1995 was renamed Wuxi University of Light Industry. 200 1 Wuxi University of Light Industry, Jiangnan College and Wuxi Institute of Education merged to form Jiangnan University; In 2003, Donghua University Wuxi Campus was merged into Jiangnan University.