Soochow University, referred to as "Suda", is located in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a national "double-class" construction university, and the national "21Project" and "20 165438 Plan" were selected as the first batch of universities. The key comprehensive universities in Jiangsu Province have been selected into the national "11plan", excellent legal talents education and training plan, excellent engineers education and training plan, excellent doctoral education and training plan, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, national undergraduate innovation experiment plan, national innovative talents training demonstration base, overseas high-level talents innovation and entrepreneurship base, new engineering research and practice projects, and national deepening innovation.
Soochow University, formerly known as 1900, is the first university in China to establish a modern university discipline system. It is the first university in China to establish a periodical, the first professional education in law (Anglo-American law) and the first postgraduate education. 1952 faculty adjustment, Suzhou University College of Arts and Sciences, Sunan College of Culture and Education, and Jiangnan University Department of Mathematics and Science merged to form Sunan Normal University, which was renamed Jiangsu Normal University in the same year. 1982, the school was renamed Suzhou University. Subsequently, Suzhou Sericulture Institute (1995), Suzhou Silk Vocational and Technical College (1997) and Suzhou Medical College (2000) were merged into Suzhou University.
As of June, 2022 165438+ 10, the school has four campuses, namely, Tianci Village, Dushu Lake, Yangcheng Lake and Future, covering an area of 4,586 mu and a building area of 1.66 million square meters. There are 36 colleges (departments) offering 132 undergraduate majors; There are 5847 faculty members, including 33 full-time teachers19; There are 27,897 full-time undergraduates, 50,665,438 doctoral students and 65,438 international students.