Jiangnan University is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), a national "2 1 1 engineering" key construction university and a world-class discipline construction university. Selected into the first batch of national education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, education and training plan for outstanding engineers, discipline innovation and intelligence introduction plan for colleges and universities, and national public postgraduate plan for building high-level universities.
Jiangnan University originated from Sanjiang Normal School founded by 1902, and experienced the development period of National Central University and Nanjing University. 1952 The Department of Food Industry 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 September 20 19, the school covers an area of 3,250 mu, with a building area of 6,543.8+0,700 square meters. The library has 2.5 million1.4 million books; The average teaching and research instrument per student is 35,400 yuan; There are 18 colleges (departments), and 49 undergraduate majors (classes) were enrolled in 20 19; * * * There are 3,343 faculty members, including 2,056 full-time teachers (including 1.290 graduate tutors); Undergraduate students 20 153, doctoral students 8940, international students 1285.