The college makes full use of the advantages and comprehensive resources of the school, adheres to the concept of "deepening reform, strengthening management, improving quality and paying attention to efficiency", takes "ensuring the quality of education and cultivating outstanding talents" as the goal, takes "facing the industry, facing the society and facing the grassroots" as the service purpose, and takes "increasing education investment and strict teaching management" as the starting point. After more than 30 years of unremitting efforts, Now it has developed into more than 50 majors covering eight disciplines, such as engineering, science, literature, art, law, medicine, economics and teaching, and has formed a new multi-level, multi-specification and multi-type pattern, with undergraduate talent training as the leader, academic education and non-academic education simultaneously, and continuing education, online education and non-academic education equally important. At present, the school-running forms of the college include adult education correspondence, evening education, full-time, self-study examination, online education, non-academic education and so on. Adult education enrolled nearly 10,000 students, online education enrolled more than 25,000 students, and self-taught students enrolled nearly 1,000 students.
College is a continuing education and training base designated by Wuxi Municipal Government. In cooperation with local governments, Jiangsu Province has established a training base for key teachers in primary and secondary schools, a professional and technical continuing education base in Wuxi City and a training base for senior technicians in Jiangsu Province, which has played a positive role in improving the quality of workers and cultivating professional and technical personnel. The College has been rated as an advanced unit and an advanced collective by the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Province and Wuxi City, and won the titles of "National Advanced Unit for Adult Education in Colleges and Universities", "National Advanced Unit for Electronic Registration Management of Academic Diplomas in Colleges and Universities", "Jiangsu Advanced Collective for Student Management in Adult Colleges and Universities", "Wuxi Advanced Unit for Social Education and Training", "Top Ten Most Popular Online Education Colleges in China", "Top Ten Brand Online Colleges" and "The Most Recognized Distance Education College in 2009". In 2009, in the celebration of "Ten-year Tour and Prospect Exhibition of Modern Distance Education", Jiangnan University won the "Excellence Award for Network Education Resources Construction" and Dean Huang won the "Contribution Award for Distance Education".
College * * * has two national-level excellent courses (online education), three provincial-level characteristic courses and eight provincial-level excellent courses. The book "Course of Distance Education" edited by President Huang won the first prize of excellent teaching materials of China Academy of Sciences in 2009.
Zhong Lingxiu's beautiful landscape in the south of the Yangtze River creates a pioneering academic atmosphere in Jiangnan University, which contains profound humanistic traditions and endows Jiangnan students with the spirit of creativity and innovation. During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, the college will continue to adhere to the school-running characteristics of "innovative thinking, optimizing structure, standardizing management and ensuring quality", strive to become a training base for knowledge innovation and technological innovation, and write a new chapter in rejuvenating the country through science and education and serving the local economy!