Soochow University, formerly known as 1900, is the first university in China to establish a modern university discipline system. It is the first university in China to establish a periodical, the first professional education in law (Anglo-American law) and the first postgraduate education. 1952 faculty adjustment, Suzhou University College of Arts and Sciences, Sunan College of Culture and Education, and Jiangnan University Department of Mathematics and Science merged to form Sunan Normal University, which was renamed Jiangsu Normal University in the same year. 1982, the school was renamed Suzhou University. Subsequently, Suzhou Sericulture Institute (1995), Suzhou Silk Vocational and Technical College (1997) and Suzhou Medical College (2000) were merged into Suzhou University.

As of June, 2022 165438+ 10, the school has four campuses, namely, Tianci Village, Dushu Lake, Yangcheng Lake and Future, covering an area of 4,586 mu and a building area of 1.66 million square meters. There are 36 colleges (departments) offering 132 undergraduate majors; There are 5847 faculty members, including 33 full-time teachers19; There are 27,897 full-time undergraduates, 50,665,438 doctoral students and 65,438 international students.

By the end of 2002 1 and 1, the school had two national talent training bases, three national experimental teaching demonstration centers, one national virtual simulation experimental teaching demonstration center1,two national talent training mode innovation experimental areas and one national off-campus practical teaching base1. 1 National 20 1 1 Collaborative Innovation Center (lead unit), 1 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education, 1 State Key Laboratory, 1 National Engineering Laboratory, 2 national and local joint engineering laboratories and 2 national joint research centers for international cooperation.