Jiangnan University is a university directly under the Ministry of Education, a national "2 1 1 engineering" key university and a "double-class" university. The school has a long history and a rich cultural heritage.
Sanjiang Normal School, founded in 1902, has experienced the development period of National Central University and Nanjing University. Wuxi Institute of Light Industry was founded in1958; 1962 Wuxi Textile Vocational and Technical College merged into Wuxi Institute of Light Industry; 1995 was renamed Wuxi university of light industry; 200 1 merged to form Jiangnan university; In 2003, Donghua University Wuxi Campus was merged into Jiangnan University.
The school adheres to the socialist orientation, fully implements the Party's educational policy, and develops independent school running and modern university system construction in accordance with the Constitution of Jiangnan University. The motto of the school is "keep learning and stop at perfection", "highlight the characteristics of light industry and serve the national economy and people's livelihood; Innovating the training mode and cultivating the backbone of the industry "is the school-running concept, and the strategic goal is to build a" world-famous, China-class, Jiangnan-style research university ",deepen the reform of education and teaching, and continuously improve the school-running level.
Great progress has been made in personnel training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchanges and cooperation. Gradually build a high-level university with reasonable scale structure, coordinated development of disciplines, excellent teaching quality, remarkable school-running benefits, high social reputation, high domestic influence and international reputation.
Teaching construction:
By June, 2022, the school had 4 national comprehensive reform pilot specialties, 5 characteristic specialty construction sites/kloc-0, and 26 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites. The Ministry of Education has 10 outstanding engineers and outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry, and 17 research and practice projects of "new engineering" and "new agricultural science".
There are 5 national-level talent training mode innovation experimental zones (including national life science and technology talent training bases), 8 engineering practice education centers and experimental teaching demonstration centers; There are 28 national excellent courses (including excellent video open course, resource sharing course and excellent network open course), 9 national first-class undergraduate courses/kloc-0, and 56 national excellent and planning textbooks.