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, a Class A construction university in the peak plan of high-level university construction in Jiangsu Province, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and the first university in China to run a school in a combined way.

Member of Jiangsu-UK High-level University Alliance, selected in the national "1 1 plan", the national postgraduate program for building high-level universities, and the national key discipline program for building universities.

Excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, new engineering research and practice project, scholarship for overseas students of China government, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the national innovation and entrepreneurship base for practical education in 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 points for doctoral degrees in first-level disciplines, 53 authorized points for master's degrees in first-level disciplines, 3 categories for doctoral degrees and 3 1 categories for master's degrees.

There are 20 postdoctoral mobile stations, 3 national key disciplines (including training), 1 1 disciplines rank among the top in ESI1%; There are more than 30,700 full-time undergraduates, more than 2700 doctoral and master students16,200, and more than 2700 full-time teachers.