Yangzhou University

Yangzhou University is jointly supported by the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education and is a key comprehensive university administered by Jiangsu. It was among China’s first doctoral and master’s degree-awarding institutions and a pioneer in university mergers. In 1992, it was formed through the merger of 6 institutions: Yangzhou Teachers College, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Water Conservancy Engineering Junior College and Jiangsu Commercial Junior College. Its history dates to Tongzhou Teachers School and Tonghai Agricultural School, founded in 1902 by the renowned modern industrialist and educator Zhang Jian.

The university is large and offers a complete range of disciplinary categories. It has more than 26000 regular full-time undergraduates and over 12000 doctoral and master’s students of various types, including approximately 2200 international students. It offers 121 undergraduate programs, 244 master’s programs and specializations, 77 doctoral programs and specializations, and 14 postdoctoral research stations across 12 categories: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and the arts. Six disciplines–chemistry, plant and animal science, engineering, agricultural sciences, clinical medicine and materials science–rank in the ESI top 1% of universities and research institutions worldwide. It has 1 joint international cooperation laboratory. Its well-balanced workforce supports strong overall capabilities. It has more than 5900 faculty and staff, including over 2300 full-time teachers, more than 1900 medical and nursing personnel, over 1300 teachers with senior professional titles, 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 foreign academician, and more than 3100 doctoral and master’s supervisors.

The university has excellent educational conditions and active external exchanges. Its campuses cover more than 4000 mu, with over 1.58 million square meters of buildings. Its 8 campuses form a connected sequence in the central urban area. It has directly affiliated hospitals, internship factories, experimental farms and livestock facilities, an animal hospital, an affiliated secondary school and other teaching, research and internship bases, along with well-equipped clinical medical schools. It values international academic exchanges and has partnerships with more than 240 universities and research institutions in 47 countries and regions. It is qualified to recruit international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Building on its distinguished heritage and continuing reform, Yangzhou University will free its thinking, advance comprehensive reform, emphasize a people-centered approach and deepen substantive development. It is moving toward its goal of becoming a high-level research university that is first-class nationally, internationally renowned and distinctly characterized.