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 one of the key universities in the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", and it is also the first batch of pilot universities in "11Plan" and the first batch of universities in "Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan".
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 The whole department moved eastward to Wuxi to establish Wuxi Institute of Light Industry, and 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.
The school covers science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, literature, law, economics, management, teaching and art [4]. Covering an area of 3,200 mu, the building area is 6,543,800+0,700 square meters. By 20 14, there are 753 full-time teachers/kloc-0 (including 788 graduate tutors), 65,438 full-time undergraduates+0,9931person, 7,627 doctoral students and 782 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.