Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, is a university with the characteristics of light industry higher education directly under the Ministry of Education of China. Known as the "Pearl of Light Industry Higher Education", the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project" are key universities, and it is also a "1 18".
The school originated from Sanjiang Normal School, founded in 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 Jiangnan university.
1958 moved eastward to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of Light Industry; 1995 changed its name to Wuxi Institute of Light Industry; 200 1 1 With the approval of the Ministry of Education, 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 2065438+March 2008, the school covers an area of 3250 mu, with a building area of 1 16000 square meters; The library has 2,396,300 books; There are 18 colleges (departments); There are 6 post-doctoral mobile stations, 7 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 28 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees and 6 categories authorized by master's professional degrees.
Selected two "double first-class" construction disciplines, 1 national first-class key disciplines and 5 second-class key disciplines; * * * 3 199 faculty members, including full-time teachers 1895; Undergraduate students 20 122, doctoral students 8 169, international students 1276.