Yangzhou University, referred to as "Yang Da", is located in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, and a class A construction university under the peak plan of high-level university construction in Jiangsu Province. The campus covers an area of more than 6,000 mu, with a building area of10.6 million square meters, and the library has 4,905,200 books.

The school has more than 6,000 teaching and administrative staff, including more than 2,700 full-time teachers, more than 2,000 medical staff, more than 400 teachers with senior titles 1.400, more than 3,500 doctoral and master's tutors, 2 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 2 foreign academicians, winners of national key talent projects (including youth) 10, and class B winners.