A powerful school, 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 supported by the construction plan, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and 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.
This school has a full range of disciplines. At present, there are 28 secondary colleges and 1 independent colleges, 120 undergraduate majors, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art, etc. 12 disciplines, with more than 25,000 full-time undergraduates and doctoral students. At present, there are 22 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-class disciplines, 47 authorized points for master's degrees in first-class disciplines, 2 1 for doctoral (master's) degree categories and 4/kloc-0 for postdoctoral mobile stations. There are 2 national key disciplines, 5 provincial dominant disciplines, 6 provincial key disciplines in the 13th Five-Year Plan, 3 provincial key disciplines and 6 disciplines in chemistry, animal and plant science, engineering, agricultural science, clinical medicine and materials science.