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, and is known as the "Pearl of Light Industry Higher Education". It is the national "2 1 1 Engineering" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform", and it is also the first batch of "1 1 Plan", the first batch of national "Excellent Agricultural Talents Education and Training Plan" reform pilot universities and the first batch of "Excellent Engineers Education and Training Plan" universities.
The school covers science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, law, economics, management, teaching, arts and other disciplines 10, covering an area of 3,200 mu and a building area of 6,543,800 square meters. By June 20 15, there were full-time teachers 1777 (including 886 graduate tutors), full-time undergraduates 19907, 7,374 doctoral students and 803 international students. The school has 6 postdoctoral mobile stations, 5 first-class doctoral programs and 24 first-class master programs. National first-class key disciplines 1, and 5 national second-class key disciplines.