Southeast University, located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, is a world-renowned institution of higher learning. The school is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established with Jiangsu Province.
Southeast University is a university with a long history and deep foundation. Founded in 1902 Sanjiang Normal School, the school has experienced important development periods such as Liangjiang Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University and National Central University. During the period of 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted and the departments of arts and sciences moved out. The former National Central University School of Engineering was merged into Fudan University, Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Jinling University, and Nanjing Institute of Technology was established in the original site of the National Central University. In May 1988, the school was renamed Southeast University. In April 2000, the former Southeast University, Nanjing Railway Medical College and Nanjing Jiaotong University merged, and Nanjing Geological School merged to form a new Southeast University.
Southeast University currently has 35 departments, 87 undergraduate majors, 37 first-level discipline authorization points for doctoral degrees and 49 first-level discipline authorization points for master's degrees. There are 36,628 full-time students, including undergraduate students 1652 1 person and graduate students 20 107. International students 2 1 15, including international students with academic qualifications 1562.
The school has four campuses, namely Sipailou, Jiulong Lake and Dingjiaqiao, covering an area of 5,888 mu, including 3,752.35 mu of Jiulong Lake Campus, with a total construction area of about 789,700 square meters. The school library covers an area of 66,900 square meters, with 4.6 million books and materials, and 49 (233 secondary databases) accessed to the database retrieval platform/kloc-0. The school also has Wuxi branch and Suzhou campus.