Jiangsu University of Science and Technology is located in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, a national historical and cultural city with beautiful scenery. It is a general higher education institution with distinctive characteristics, mainly in engineering, and is a university under the construction of Jiangsu High-level University, an excellent school in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education, and a university under the Excellent Engineer Education Training Program of the Ministry of Education.
The university has a long history of operation, multiple sources and a deep cultural heritage. The school originated from Shanghai Dagong Vocational School in 1933, and the Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry School, the first shipbuilding secondary professional school in New China, was established in 1953, moved to Zhenjiang in 1970, renamed as Zhenjiang Shipbuilding Industry School in 1971, upgraded to undergraduate level and renamed as Zhenjiang Shipbuilding College in 1978, and renamed as East China Shipbuilding Industry College in 1993. In 1999, the school was transferred from the former China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation to Jiangsu Province, and in 1999, Jiangsu Jianghai Trade School was incorporated into the school, and in 2000, the Institute of Sericulture of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences merged with the school. 2004, the school was renamed Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. The university is a university jointly built by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and National Defense Science and Technology Industry Bureau, and a university jointly built by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and China Shipbuilding Group Corporation. The university started to recruit and train undergraduates in 1978, and obtained the right to grant master's degree in 1993 and doctoral degree in 2008. There are more than 20,000 general undergraduates, 4,700 doctoral and master's degree students, and more than 600 international students with undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees; there is also Suzhou Institute of Technology of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology with more than 7,800 students. There are 2 campuses in Zhenjiang, Changshan and Mengxi, Zhangjiagang campus and Shanghai office, covering an area of 3,979 mu.
As the only university in Jiangsu Province with the main service orientation of the shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry, the university is one of the universities with the most comprehensive set of disciplines related to the shipbuilding industry and the advantages of the overall and application of shipbuilding characteristics among the relevant universities in China. The comprehensive strength of the university is ranked 120th among the universities in mainland China by the third-party evaluation agency USNews2022 World University Ranking. There are 3 post-doctoral research stations, 5 doctoral degree authorization points in primary disciplines, 25 master's degree authorization points in primary disciplines, 14 professional degree granting categories and 66 undergraduate majors. Three disciplines of engineering, material science and chemistry have been ranked in the top 1% of the global ESI rankings, and 10 disciplines have been listed in the 2021 Soft Science Ranking of Best Disciplines in China. There are 5 national defense disciplines, 3 superior disciplines in Jiangsu Province, 5 key disciplines cultivated by Jiangsu Province in the 13th Five-Year Plan; 3 pilot majors of the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program of the Ministry of Education, 12 national first-class undergraduate majors, and 6 provincial first-class undergraduate majors. There are 3 pilot majors of Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program of the Ministry of Education, 12 national first-class undergraduate majors and 6 provincial first-class undergraduate majors.
The university attaches importance to the construction of faculty and promotes the strategy of strengthening the university with talents to provide a strong guarantee of human resources for the reform, construction and development of the university. There are more than 2290 faculty members, including more than 1570 full-time teachers. There are more than 240 people with senior titles, more than 750 people with associate titles, and more than 1020 people with doctoral degrees. There are 5 double-appointed and specially-appointed academicians and more than 170 high-level talents at national and provincial levels; there are provincial Youth and Blue Project teams, excellent science and technology innovation teams, excellent innovation teams in philosophy and social sciences, and provincial Six Talent Summit innovation talent teams. There are 14 teams.
The university has complete teaching and research facilities and research platforms, 15 national and provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 11 national and provincial key laboratories and engineering laboratories, 22 national and provincial research centers, 1 key industrial college construction site in Jiangsu Province, 1 innovation and entrepreneurship practice education center for college students in Jiangsu Province, 1 key research base of philosophy and social science in Jiangsu Province and 1 key research (construction) base of philosophy and social science in Jiangsu province. The university hosts the Journal of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (Natural Science Edition), Journal of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition), Sericulture Science, China Sericulture, Modern Flour Industry and other publicly published academic journals.
The university has always taken the establishment of moral education as the fundamental task, fully implement the central position of talent training, adhere to the foundation-based, promote the four returns, the construction of first-class undergraduate education, and strive to cultivate to adapt to the needs of society and industry development, with a sense of innovation, application-oriented The university is known as the cradle of Chinese shipbuilding engineers. It has trained more than 180,000 application-oriented and innovative talents for the shipbuilding industry, national defense construction and economic and social development, and has produced a series of national defense and naval modernization vessels, as well as chief builders and chief craftsmen of LNG ships, luxury ro-ro vessels, cruise ships, polar cruise ships and research vessels, and other industry elites. In recent years, the university has won 13 first and second prizes of higher education teaching achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial levels; 6 national first-class undergraduate courses and 31 provincial first-class undergraduate courses have been recognized; 4 Four New construction projects have been approved by the Ministry of Education; and the university has been awarded the Challenge Cup in the In the Challenge Cup students' extra-curricular academic science and technology works competition, we won one national special prize, two first prizes, one second prize, eight third prizes, and the Winning Cup; in the Challenge Cup students' entrepreneurship plan competition, we won one national gold prize, two silver prizes and two bronze prizes. In the Challenge Cup college students' entrepreneurship plan competition, it won 1 national gold prize, 2 silver prizes and 2 bronze prizes; 3 national gold prizes, 2 silver prizes and 13 bronze prizes in the China International Internet+ college students' innovation and entrepreneurship competition; the employment rate of graduates is maintained at over 97% every year.
Based on the characteristic advantages of shipbuilding, marine and sericulture, the university constantly improves its scientific and technological innovation capacity and makes every effort to serve the major strategic needs of the country. Insisting on national demand as the driving force, the university focuses on the close integration of applied basic research, technological innovation and promotion and application of high-tech achievements, and actively contributes to the shipbuilding industry and economic and social development. The university has won 2 National Science and Technology Progress Grand Prize and 2 Second Prize, and 1 National Technical Invention Second Prize. The research projects hosted by the university won 3 first-class awards of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education, 1 first-class award of Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award, and 1 silver award of China Patent. The first prize of Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Science Excellent Achievement Award. The university took the lead in presiding over 3 national key R&D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 advanced manufacturing cluster project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 2 high technology ship research projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and 1 construction project of special discipline conditions of the National Bureau of Science and Technology for National Defense was approved. The integrated system and application of comprehensive control and key equipment guarantee for large dredger, which was completed under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology, has replaced foreign imports, and participated in the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling platform, Jiaolong manned submersible, Kampf The digital design and manufacturing system, high-efficiency welding equipment and ship enterprise management software are widely used in major ship enterprises, and the ship logistics integrated security system is leading in China, and the diesel engine for lifeboat accounts for nearly 60% of the global market. The Sericulture Research Institute of the university is the only national sericulture research institution in China, the world center for preservation and research of sericulture germplasm resources, the research center for sericulture science and technology and the center for international cooperation and exchange of sericulture. The university has won 17 national awards for its research and development of major Chinese and global sericulture varieties and sericulture technologies. During President Xi Jinping's visit to Cuba, the mulberry seeds presented to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro came from the university.
The university has always attached importance to exchanges and cooperation with home and abroad, insisted on internationalization and open schooling, and constantly broadened the ways of schooling. The university has established the China Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Industry Intellectual Property Alliance and Jiangsu Shipbuilding and Marine University Cooperative Development Alliance, and has established comprehensive cooperation with the Political Department of the Navy, China Shipbuilding Group Corporation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jiangsu Provincial Grain Bureau, etc. The university has built an overseas education institute, and has actively cooperated with Australia, Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Britain, France, India, Japan, etc. Active cooperation in scientific research and schooling. The Sino-Ukrainian and Sino-Australian cooperative education projects are the high-level demonstration construction projects of Sino-foreign cooperative education in Jiangsu universities. Ltd., Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Dalian Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd., Kunming Shipbuilding Equipment Group Co., Ltd. and China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co. China Shipbuilding Industry Engineer Continuing Education Institute is located in the school.
The university has been awarded as civilized unit of Jiangsu Province and civilized campus of Jiangsu Province for many years, and has been honored as excellent unit of university style construction of Jiangsu Province, civilized school of Jiangsu Province, safe and civilized campus of Jiangsu Province, gardening unit of Jiangsu Province, harmonious campus of Jiangsu Province, advanced collective of ideological and political education of Jiangsu Province, advanced unit of scientific and technological innovation of Jiangsu Province, advanced collective of employment of graduates of Jiangsu Province, national Advanced Unit of Summer Social Practice Activities for College Students, National Excellent Higher Education School in Implementing the Regulations on School Sports Work, National Model Staff House, National School with National Defense Education Characteristics, National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee, etc.
During the long history of the school, the school has always breathed with the times and shared the destiny of the nation, adhered to the philosophy of education for people, responsibility for the first, fairness for the first, and academics for the soul, adhered to the school motto of learning and virtue, and the world for use, and vigorously carried forward The spirit of ship soul, which is the heart of the river and the sea, the same boat to help each other, and the sail to the far, and the mission to serve the national strategy of maritime power, the construction of one belt and one road and the progress of the society. The school has made positive contributions to the development of China's shipbuilding industry and the modernization of national defense. Looking into the future, the university will continue to adhere to the teacher and student-centered principle, take the road of integrated development with the industry and the region, strive to achieve the level of first-class undergraduate teaching, first-class advantageous disciplines, advanced application technology, and strive to become one of the most important talent training bases, one of the scientific and technological innovation platforms, and one of the academic exchange centers for the Chinese shipbuilding industry. To create a new situation for the construction of domestic first-class shipbuilding university. (Note: The main data is updated as of November 2021)