Yangzhou University, referred to as "Yang Da", is located in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. 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 a class A construction university under the peak plan of high-level university construction in Jiangsu Province. It is the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, the first merged university in China, and a member of Jiangsu-UK High-level University Alliance. It has successively been selected into the national "11/plan", the national public postgraduate plan for building a high-level university, the national "key discipline plan with characteristics" for building a university, the education and training plan for outstanding engineers, the education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, the new engineering research and practice plan, the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, the first batch of national demonstration universities for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the national innovation and entrepreneurship base of universities.
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. During the adjustment of departments in China from 65438 to 0952, its departments of literature and history and agriculture moved to Yangzhou to run schools, becoming the predecessors of Yangzhou Normal University and Jiangsu Agricultural College. 1992 With the approval of the State Education Commission, Yangzhou University was formed by the merger of Yangzhou Normal College, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Jiangsu Business School.
As of April 2022, the campus covers an area of more than 6,000 mu, the building area of school buildings is 6,543.8+0.6 million square meters, the total value of teaching and research instruments is 65,438+0.249 billion yuan, the library has 4,905,200 books, and there are 6,543.8+0 directly affiliated hospitals. There are 2 1 authorized doctoral degree points in first-class disciplines, 53/authorized master's degree points in first-class disciplines, 3 kinds of authorized doctoral degree points, 3 1 authorized master's degree points, 20 mobile postdoctoral stations, and 3 national key disciplines (including training). 1 1 disciplines rank among the top in ESI world/kloc. There are more than 30,700 full-time undergraduates, more than 2700 doctoral and master students16,200, and more than 2700 full-time teachers.