jiangsu university jiangsu university jiangsu university (simplified chinese: 江苏大学; traditional chinese: 江蘇大學; pinyin: jiāngsū dàxué) is a highly ranked and prestigious doctoral research university located in zhenjiang, jiangsu province, people's republic of china (prc). it is a national key university jointly developed by the jiangsu provincial government, chinese ministry of education, and the ministry of agriculture and rural affairs of the people's republic of china. jiangsu university江苏大学former namesjiangsu university of science and technology zhenjiang medical college zhenjiang teachers’ collegemotto博学 求是 明德motto in englishbe erudite, practical and virtuoustypepublic universityestablishedoriginated in 1902, combined and renamed in 2001presidentyuan shouqiacademic staff1950administrative staff4500students34100undergraduates29200postgraduates4300 masters, 600 phdlocationzhenjiang, jiangsu, people's republic of chinacampusurban areacolours websiteeng.ujs.edu.cn history and overview jiangsu university was established through the combination of jiangsu university of science and technology, zhenjiang medical college and zhenjiang teachers’ college, under the permission of the chinese ministry of education in august, 2001. its main institution was the former jiangsu university of science and technology, which was one of the 88 key universities designated by the state council in 1978. its history began with sanjiang normal school founded in 1902, which evolved and renamed liangjiang normal school in 1906, nanjing higher normal school in 1915, national southeastern university in 1921, disi zhongshan university in 1927, jiangsu university in february and central university in march 1928, and nanjing university in 1949. nanjing university engineering college became nanjing polytechnic institute in 1952 and then in 1960 a part of it became independent and moved to zhenjiang next year and later became jiangsu university of science and technology. it renamed jiangsu university when merged with two colleges in the same city in 2001. jiangsu university (jsu) was founded in 1902 as a part of sanjiang normal university. it was retitled as jiangsu university by integrating jiangsu university of science and technology, zhenjiang medical college and zhenjiang teachers’ college with the approval of the ministry of education of china in august, 2001. the university’s undergraduate teaching was graded excellent by the ministry of education in 2004. it has developed to be a national comprehensive key university. according to the evaluations of china’s universities in 2017, 2016 and 2015 by china academy of management science, jsu is ranked 41, 48 and 55, respectively. it is committed to cultivating talents with 4c (confidence, communication, cooperation and creation). now the university is launching the new orientation of schooling for high-level, research-oriented university with strength of engineering and strategy of internationalization. jsu offers 88 undergraduate programs, 170 master programs, and 42 phd programs in 10 academic fields: engineering, science, management, economics, medicine, law, education, literature and history. the university has 13 post-doctoral research stations. distinguished among its peers for its academic rigor, the 24 schools are competing and collaborating with each other for a high-level, research-oriented university with distinctive features and internationalization strategy. jsu has 5,763 staff members (including those of affiliated hospital). 2,475 are faculty members, including 450 professors. 54% of them have got ph.d degrees and over 24% have experience of overseas study. the current total enrollment of full-time students amounts to over 33,000, including 10,000 postgraduates, 842 international students from 74 countries. jingjiang college of jiangsu university has an enrollment of about 10,000 full-time students. jsu has been promoting high-level research. in the recent 5 years, the total scientific research fund amounts to 25 billion rmb, sponsored by the governments and enterprises. the authorized patents in 2014 ranked 12 and in 2015 ranked 6 among china’s universities. five disciplines have been ranked as top 1% in esi, such as engineering, clinical medicine, materials science, chemistry, and agriculture science. drawing on the big varieties of programs and multi-disciplinary strengths, we operate an array of research institutes and centers serving as both the academic think tanks and technological innovation source at the national and regional levels. jsu gives priorities to the internationalization of the schooling, encouraging faculty members and students to go abroad for further studies, inviting more global talents to join us for mutual benefits, promoting international research collaboration as well as recruiting more overseas students. jsu has signed institutional cooperation agreements with 87 universities in 30 countries and regions by june 2015. the confucius institute co-built by jsu and graz university (austria) has been operating smoothly since october 2010, followed by the opening of the collaborative chinese-german language and culture center. administration schools and departments the university is organized into the following schools and departments. school of medicine school of medical technology school of food and biological engineering school of business administration school of mechanical engineering school of material science and engineering school of finance and economics school of electrical and information engineering school of environment school of computer science and telecommunication engineering school of science school of humanities and social sciences school of foreign languages school of art school of energy and power engineering school of automotive and traffic engineering school of chemistry and chemical engineering school of pharmacy school of law school of teacher's education jingjiang college domestic academic collaboration in china jiangsu university maintains a large and extensive network of domestic academic and scientific collaboration with a large number of the universities in this official list of universities within the people's republic of china (prc) as well as with: macau university of science and technology, people's republic of china (prc) international academic collaboration cornell university, weill cornell school of medicine, united states of america oregon health & science university, school of medicine, united states of america purdue university, united states of america university of rochester, united states of america lawrence berkeley national laboratory, united states of america northwestern polytechnic university, united states of america university of houston, united states of america university of georgia, united states of america american university, united states of america virginia polytechnic institute and state university (virginia tech), united states of america washington state university, united states of america university of maryland, college park, united states of america university of colorado, united states of america texas a&m university, united states of america university of texas at austin, united states of america texas tech university, united states of america university of illinois at chicago, united states of america university of illinois at urbana–champaign, united states of america wayne state university, united states of america california polytechnic state university, united states of america california state university, united states of america university of kansas, united states of america kansas state university, united states of america wake forest university, united states of america university of delaware, united states of america university of south florida, united states of america cleveland state university, united states of america university of idaho, united states of america oral roberts university, united states of america oregon state university, united states of america university of north carolina, united states of america north carolina state university, united states of america arcadia university, united states of america simmons college, united states of america ohio state university, united states of america indiana university, united states of america indiana university-purdue university fort wayne, united states of america florida state university, united states of america mississippi state university, united states of america arcadia university, united states of america university of cincinnati, united states of america university of idaho, united states of america new england college of optometry, united states of america national academy of engineering, united states of america mississippi state university, united states of america national taiwan university, taiwan national dong hwa university, taiwan national tsing hua university, taiwan chienkuo technology university, taiwan dayeh university, taiwan taoyuan innovation institute of technology, taiwan national kaohsiung first university of science and technology, taiwan chinese culture university, taiwan university of zurich, switzerland université laval, canada université du québec, canada wilfrid laurier university, canada york university, canada mcgill university, canada queen's university, canada royal roads university, canada thompson rivers university, canada centennial college of applied arts and technology, canada saint mary's university (halifax), canada mcmaster university, canada university of ottawa, canada carleton university, canada university of waterloo, canada brock university, canada wilfrid laurier university, canada university of prince edward island, canada inrs-institut armand-frappier, canada university of turku, finland turku pet centre, finland norwegian university of science and technology, norway eindhoven university of technology, netherlands wrocław university of science and technology, poland university of gdańsk, poland university of padova, italy université de montpellier, france université de reims champagne-ardenne, france university of sheffield, united kingdom university of chester, united kingdom university of nottingham, united kingdom university of glasgow, united kingdom university of manchester, united kingdom lancaster university, united kingdom loughborough university, united kingdom university of leicester, united kingdom university of leeds, united kingdom university of wolverhampton, united kingdom cranfield university, united kingdom university of northampton, united kingdom brunel university, united kingdom university of hertfordshire, united kingdom university of leeds, united kingdom edinburgh napier university, united kingdom university of derby, united kingdom rwth aachen university, germany karlsruhe institute of technology, germany university of duisburg-essen, germany university of göttingen, germany technische universität ilmenau, germany university of applied sciences, worms, germany amberg-weiden university of applied sciences, germany technical university of kaiserslautern, germany konstanz university of applied sciences, germany worms university of applied sciences, germany otto-von-guericke university magdeburg, germany baden-württemberg cooperative state university, germany dalarna university college (högskolan dalarna), sweden kristianstad university college (högskolan kristianstad), sweden aarhus university, denmark ibss international business school styria, austria university of graz, austria graz university of technology, austria hiroshima university, japan the kyoto college of graduate studies for informatics, japan mie university, japan npo, japan national institute for japanese language and linguistics, japan nagoya sangyo university, japan tohoku university, japan yamaguchi university, japan osaka prefecture university, japan kyushu institute of foreign languages, japan university of shimane, japan national university of singapore, singapore singapore polytechnic, singapore nanyang technological university, singapore nanyang creative management, singapore jadavpur university, india foundation of liberal and management education (flame school of business), india kaziranga university, india bogor agricultural university, indonesia parahyangan catholic university, indonesia changwon national university, south korea gyeongsang national university, south korea yeungnam university, south korea daebul university, south korea inha university, south korea chungnam national university, south korea university of seoul, college of engineering, south korea kunsan national university, south korea prince of songkla university, thailand chiangrai rajabhat university, thailand chiang mai university, thailand university of education, winneba, ghana university of cape coast, ghana kwame nkrumah university of science and technology, ghana koforidua polytechnic, ghana kumasi polytechnic, ghana university of education, winneba, ghana accra polytechnic, ghana university of sydney, faculty of pharmacy, australia griffith university, australia queensland university of technology, australia khabarovsk state academy of economics and law, russia n.p.ogarev mordovia state university, russia v.n.karazin national university, ukraine university of khartoum, sudan university of malaya, malaysia university malaysia sabah, malaysia university utara malaysia, malaysia university malaysia kelantan, malaysia shahjalal university of science and technology, bangladesh university of juba, south sudan upper nile university, south sudan university of bahr el-ghazal, south sudan rumbek university of science and technology, south sudan dr. john garang memorial university of science and technology, south sudan chalimbana university, zambia copperbelt university, zambia lewanika university, zambia mukuba university, zambia mulungushi university, zambia nkrumah university, 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