Suzhou University, referred to as Suda for short, is located in Suzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China. It is a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, a national key university of "2 1 1 Project" and the first batch of key universities of "20 165438 Plan". It is one of the first universities to be selected into the National Undergraduate Innovation Experiment Program, the National Postgraduate Program for Building High-level Universities and the Overseas High-level Talents Introduction Program. It is also a pilot university for the reform of the excellent doctoral education and training plan, the excellent engineer education and training plan and the excellent legal talent education and training plan of the Ministry of Education.

Soochow University 1900 was formerly known as Soochow University. 1952 During the adjustment of national departments, Soochow University College of Arts and Sciences, Sunan College of Culture and Education, and Jiangnan University Department of Mathematics and Physics merged to form Sunan Normal College, which was renamed Jiangsu Normal College in the same year and founded in the former site of Soochow University. 1982 Jiangsu Normal University was changed to Suzhou University. Suzhou Sericulture College, Suzhou Silk Vocational and Technical College, Suzhou Medical College and Nanjing Railway Vocational and Technical College Suzhou Campus were merged into Suzhou University in 1995, 1997, 2000 and 20 12 respectively.

By the end of 2065438+June 2007, Suzhou University had three campuses: Tianci Zhuang Campus, Dushu Lake Campus and Yangcheng Lake Campus, covering an area of 3.751mu and a building area of 1.62 million square meters. There are 24 colleges (departments) under the school, and the specialty involves 12 discipline. Eight disciplines, including chemistry, physics, materials science, clinical medicine, engineering, pharmacy and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, neuroscience and animal behavior, rank in the top 65,438+0 ‰ in ESI, among which materials science and chemistry rank in the top 65,438+0 ‰. There are 26 175 full-time undergraduates, 9,332 full-time masters, 289/kloc-0 on-the-job masters, full-time doctoral students 160 1 person, clinicians 1593, and international students 291kloc.