Yangzhou University is located in Yangzhou, the first historical and cultural city in China. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province and one of the top 100 provincial universities in Jiangsu Province. It is the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and it is also the first merged university in China. The school's predecessor was Tongzhou Normal School and Tonghai Agricultural School, which were founded on 1902 by Mr. Zhang Jian, a famous industrialist and educator in modern times.

1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and their majors in agriculture, literature and history moved westward to Yangzhou to form Subei Agricultural College and Subei Normal College. At the same time, four other universities were established or moved to Yangzhou. 1992, the school was formed by the merger of six universities, including Yangzhou Normal University, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Jiangsu Business School.

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This school has a full range of disciplines. There are 29 secondary colleges and 1 independent colleges, 124 undergraduate majors, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, etc. 12 disciplines, with more than 29,000 ordinary full-time undergraduates and doctors.

There are 2 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 50 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, 3 types of doctoral degree authorization points, 27 types of master degree authorization points and 20 post-doctoral mobile stations. It has 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key disciplines, 7 provincial dominant disciplines, 6 provincial key disciplines in the 13th Five-Year Plan and 3 provincial key disciplines, and 7 disciplines including chemistry, animal and plant science, engineering, agricultural science, clinical medicine, materials science and computer science rank among the top 65,400 universities and scientific research institutions in the world.

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