Yangzhou University is a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, and it is the first university in China to run a combined school. It was formed by the merger of six universities including Yangzhou Normal College, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Jiangsu Business School on 1992. The history of Yangzhou University can be traced back to Tongzhou Normal School and Tonghai Agricultural School (which later became a part of Nantong College) founded in 1902 by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times. The former Jiangsu Agricultural College and Yangzhou Normal College were developed on the basis of the agricultural science of Nantong College and the literature and history of Tongzhou Normal School. The other four universities involved in the merger also have an independent history of more than 50 years.
Yangzhou University has a large scale and complete disciplines. There are 33,900 full-time undergraduates, 6,200 doctoral and master students, and adult education students10.6 million. At present, there are departments of literature, social development, law, education science (teachers college), news and media, foreign languages, mathematics, physical science and technology, chemistry and chemical engineering, sports, mechanical engineering, information engineering, building science and engineering, water conservancy science and engineering, energy and power engineering, environmental science and engineering, agriculture, horticulture and plant protection. There are 94 undergraduate majors in 27 national and private colleges, including Animal Science and Technology College, Veterinary College, Biological Science and Technology College, Medical College, Economics College, Management College, Tourism and Cooking College (Food Science and Engineering College), Art College and Guangling College, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management./kloc The school has 4 national majors, 1 national teaching team, 25 provincial brand majors, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 innovative professional talent training mode listed in national experimental area, 8 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers for basic courses and 7 national excellent courses.
The school has a reasonable teacher structure and strong comprehensive strength. There are more than 4 100 faculty members in the school, including 2050 full-time teachers, more than 0/1 00 teachers with associate senior titles, 97 people enjoying special government allowances, 29 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, and 8000 tutors for doctoral and master students. As the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, the school has 5 postdoctoral mobile stations, 32 doctoral programs, 133 master's degree programs, 1 doctoral degree programs and 6 master's degree programs. There are 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 8 provincial key disciplines, 1/provincial key (construction) laboratories, 3 provincial engineering technology research centers (technical service centers) and1provincial scientific research institutes. At present, the school undertakes more than 900 scientific research projects at all levels, and its annual expenditure on science and technology is more than 65.438+300 million yuan. The general projects obtained by the National Natural Science Foundation rank among the top 40 universities in China and among the top universities in Jiangsu. Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, more than 300 scientific research achievements have been awarded at or above the provincial and ministerial level, and a number of high-level scientific research achievements have been achieved. Among them, the achievement of somatic cell cloning of transgenic goats, which was jointly completed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and our school, was rated as the top ten news of basic research in China in 1999, and the work of precise sequencing of rice chromosome 4, which was jointly completed by our school, was rated as the top ten news of scientific and technological progress in China in 2002, and three achievements won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress. Since 2002, two papers have been rated as national excellent doctoral dissertations. The achievements of scientific and technological development and achievement popularization are equally gratifying. The combination of agriculture, science and education in the school has formed a pattern centering on the base in northern Jiangsu and radiating from southern Jiangsu, and has embarked on a successful road of serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers.
The school has excellent conditions for running a school and active foreign exchanges. The campus covers an area of more than 4,300 mu, with a building area of 1.22 million square meters. Eight campuses are located in the center of the city end to end. The total fixed assets of the school181200 million yuan, the total teaching and research instruments and equipment is 457 million yuan, and the library has 3.25 million books. It has a number of teaching, scientific research and practice bases, such as experimental factories, experimental farms, animal hospitals and affiliated middle schools, as well as a well-equipped clinical medical college. The school pays attention to international academic exchange activities and has established cooperative relations with universities and research institutions in more than 20 countries (regions). The school has the qualifications to recruit foreign students (including those receiving government scholarships) and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
/kloc-in the past 0/0 years, the school has gone through a road of reform and development of "combination-merger-adjustment-improvement". At the beginning of the school, we took the road of joint education; From the first half of 1995, the school changed from a loose union to a substantive merger. 1998, the school was reorganized according to the discipline group 13 secondary college. After 2002, in line with the principle of discipline construction, the school partially reorganized its departments, and the number of colleges increased from the original 15 to 27, building a flat organizational system, reducing management levels, rationalizing internal relations, improving operational efficiency and creating more favorable development space for discipline and specialty construction. All the undertakings of the school show a healthy and rapid development trend. The Party Committee of the school has been commended by jiangsu provincial party committee as "Jiangsu Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" and by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization". The school passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with excellent results.
Inheriting historical glory and writing a chapter of reform. Yangzhou University, with a history of one hundred years, is determined to reform and forge ahead, which has provided beneficial experience for the reform of China's higher education management system and has been praised as "a banner of university reform" by central leading comrades. In the new journey, under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, Yangzhou University will fully implement the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, further emancipate the mind, establish and implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, earnestly strengthen the connotation construction, vigorously promote the transformation from a "large-scale school" to a "strong school with connotation", from a "prestigious school with reform" to a "prestigious school with quality", and strive to build a harmonious campus and move towards a more brilliant tomorrow! (June 5438+10)
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School motto: be realistic, realistic, innovative and refined.
Celebration Day: 65438 May 2009
School Address: No.88, Daxue South Road, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Postal code: 225009
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