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. It originated from Sanjiang Normal School founded by 1902 and experienced the development period of National Central University and Nanjing University.
From 65438 to 0958, the Department of Food Industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology moved eastward to Wuxi, and Wuxi Institute of Light Industry was established. 1962 Wuxi Textile Vocational and Technical College merged into Wuxi Institute of Light Industry; 1995 was renamed Wuxi university of light industry; 200 1 Wuxi University of Light Industry, Jiangnan College and Wuxi Institute of Education 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; Innovative training mode.
With the school-running philosophy of "cultivating the backbone of the industry" and the strategic goal of building a "world-famous, China-class, Jiangnan-style research university", we have deepened the reform of education and teaching, continuously improved the level of running schools, made great progress in personnel training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, international exchanges and cooperation, and gradually built a school with reasonable scale structure, coordinated development of disciplines, excellent teaching quality, remarkable school-running benefits and high social reputation.
The school adheres to the discipline construction concept of "complementary advantages" and has established a good discipline ecological environment. There are 18 colleges (departments), including: Food College, Bioengineering College, Design College, Textile Science and Engineering College, Chemistry and Materials Engineering College, Internet of Things Engineering College, Environment and Civil Engineering College, Mechanical Engineering College and Yuan Jun College.
School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer (School of Software), School of Marxism, Wuxi Medical College (Institute of Translational Medicine), School of Life Science and Health Engineering, School of Business, School of Science, School of Humanities (School of Education), School of Foreign Languages, School of Law and Department of Physical Education. It covers science, engineering, medicine, literature, law, economy, management, education, art, interdisciplinary and other disciplines 10.