Jiangnan University
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Jiangnan University (
simplified Chinese:
江南大学;
traditional Chinese:
江南大學;
pinyin:
Jiāngnán Dàxué),
JU, literally "Southern Yangtze University") is a university located in
Wuxi,
Jiangsu,
China. It is a
key national university of the “
Project 211” and is directly administrated by the
Chinese Ministry of Education.
[1] The distinguished disciplines are food science and technology, fermentation engineering and industrial design.
History
The root of Jiangnan University stretches back to San Jiang Normal School which was founded in
Nanjing in 1902 which later renamed
National Central University and
Nanjing University. The private Jiangnan University, another source of JU, was founded in Wuxi in 1948 by Rong Desheng (the father of
Rong Yiren), the largest national capitalist in the
Republic of China era. Later during restructuring of higher education happened after the establishment of the
People’s Republic of China,
the engineering related departments of Nanjing University merged
related departments of private Jiangnan University and several other
universities and formed Nanjing Institute of Technology (later renamed
Southeast University)
in 1952, and in 1958, the related department of Nanjing Institute of
Technology moved to Wuxi and established Wuxi College of Light Industry
which was named university in 1995. In 2001, Jiangnan University was
formed by the combination of Wuxi University of Light Industry, Jiangnan
College and Wuxi Education College.
Campus
The newly completed university campus covers 208 hectares with floor
space of 1.05 million square meters. It is located by Lake Tai, a
national scenic resort in the south of Wuxi. It was designed and built
to demonstrate the concept of an “Eco-campus”.
Colleges and Academic Departments
Jiangnan University consists of 17 schools and offers 48
undergraduate programs with 10 disciplines including engineering,
science, literature, economics, management, law, medicine, agriculture,
education and arts. Jiangnan University has 4 Post-doctoral Research
Stations in the fields of Light Industry Technology and Engineering,
Food Science and Technology, Control Science and Engineering, and
Textile Engineering. It is entitled to confer master's degrees in 24
programs, and doctoral degrees in 5 programs.
| university rankings |
| Chinese university ranking |
| Wu Shulian[2] |
47 |
| China Discipline Ranking [3] |
| Food Science and Engineering |
1 |
| Light Industry Technology and Engineering |
２ |
| Textile Science and Engineering |
５ |
Academic Units
The National Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, approved by the
Ministry of Science & Technology, is the only one of its kind in
China. In addition, it has 19 national, ministerial or provincial
engineering research centers, 7 key labs at the ministerial or
provincial level, the Food Safety Research Base of Jiangsu Province, the
Scientific and Technological Novelty Search Workstation of Ministry of
Education, the Industrial Microbial Resources Database Integration and
Information Sharing Platform.
Students
Currently there are over 20,000 full-time undergraduates, 6,700 doctoral and master candidates studying on campus.
Notable Faculties
The faculty team consists of over 1,600 members including 1
academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 Cheung Kong
Scholars, 3 National Outstanding Youth Foundation Winner, 8 state-level
candidates for the One Hundred plus One Thousand plus Ten Thousand
Talents Project of the New Century, 3 National Young and Middle-aged
Experts with Outstanding Contributions, 48 candidates for the New
Century Excellent Researcher Award Program from Ministry of Education of
China and over 1100 professors and associate professors.
