The origin of sanjiang university's name can be traced back to 1902 "Sanjiang Normal School". 1992 Four retired or about to retire professors and cadres from Southeast University and Nanjing University initiated the establishment of the "sanjiang university".

1995 was formally established with the approval of the former State Education Commission, and was upgraded to an undergraduate university with the approval of the Ministry of Education in February 2002, and was named "sanjiang university". 20 17 School became the provincial master's program construction unit in Jiangsu Province.

As of July 20 19, the school has Tiexinqiao main campus, South campus, Dongshan campus, Zhushan Road campus and East campus. Tiexinqiao main campus is located on the Huaihe River in Xinqin at the foot of Niushou Mountain in Yuhuatai District, south of Nanjing, between the two rivers and three mountains. "Looking at Niushoushan in the south, Fangshan in the east and Zijinshan in the north" and "Great River, Clear Qinhuai" (both selected from the poem "Recalling Jiangnan" by former Central University President Luo Jialun).

European-style school buildings, elegant and magnificent, blend with green mountains and green waters, and the greening rate reaches 70%. The campus covers an area of *** 1030.4 mu, with a building area of 474,700 square meters. Gigabit optical fiber campus network covers the whole campus, and the library has 3,446,600 books.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-sanjiang university