Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a national "double-class" construction university, "Project 2 1 1".

Jiangnan University originated from Sanjiang Normal School founded by 1902, and experienced the development period of National Central University and Nanjing University. 1952 the food industry department of Nanjing institute of technology (now southeast university) was established by relevant departments of Nanjing university, Fudan university, Wuhan university, Zhejiang university and private Jiangnan university; From 65438 to 0958, the whole department moved eastward to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of Light Industry.

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.

As of June, 2022 10, the school covers an area of 3,786 mu, with a building area of1198,700 square meters; The library has 2.55 million books; There are 18 colleges (departments), and 54 undergraduate majors will be enrolled in 2022; There are 346 faculty members1person, including 2240 full-time teachers (including graduate tutors 1.409); There are 20852 undergraduates, 65438 doctoral students and 02093 international students.