Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It was built by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a national "double first-class" university, focusing on "21engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", and was selected as the national "655".
The education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, the education and training plan for outstanding engineers, the national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, the national innovative experiment plan for college students, the national innovative and entrepreneurial training plan for college students, and the national new engineering research and practice plan are members of the high-level industry-specific university alliance.
Member of the "Belt and Road" University Food Education Science and Technology Alliance, China government scholarship receiving institution for international students in China, national college students' cultural quality education base, and the first batch of universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases. ?
Jiangnan University originated from Sanjiang Normal School founded by 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 private Jiangnan university;
1958, the whole department moved eastward to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. 1962 Wuxi Textile Vocational and Technical College merged into Wuxi Institute of Light Industry; 1995 was renamed Wuxi University of Light Industry. 200 1 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 June 2022, the school covers an area of 3,250 mu, with a building area of 1.07 million square meters. The library has 2.55 million books; There are 18 colleges (departments), and 202 1 enrolls 53 undergraduate majors; There are 342 faculty members1person, including 206 full-time teachers1person (including graduate tutors 1.409); There are 20609 undergraduates, 65438 doctoral students and 00940 international students.