Jilin Jianzhu University is a key institution of higher learning in Jilin Province, focusing on engineering and featuring civil architecture, supporting and coordinating the development of disciplines such as engineering, literature, management, law, art and economics. It is also a training base for senior professionals in the field of urban and rural capital construction in Jilin Province, a research and development base for science and technology, decision-making consultation for industrial development and a service base for scientific and technological innovation.
The school has 18 colleges (departments) such as School of Architecture and Planning, School of Civil Engineering and School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering. The school has nine first-level discipline authorization points, including architecture, civil engineering, environmental science and engineering, materials science and engineering, management science and engineering, urban and rural planning, design, applied economics and Marxist theory.