The private Jiangnan University , one source of JiangnanU, was founded in Wuxi in 1947 by Rong Desheng, the largest national capitalist in the Republic of China era. In 1952, during restructuring of higher education happened after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the engineering related departments of Nanjing University, mergeing engineering departments of private Jiangnan University and several other engineering departments of universities in east China area, including Fudan University, Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, etc. Later, they formed Nanjing Institute of Technology, now Southeast University in Nanjing. In 1958, the Department of Food Technology of Nanjing Institute of Technology moved to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of Light Industry which was named Wuxi University of Light Industry 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 Li, an inner lake of Lake Tai and also a national scenic resort in the south of Wuxi. It was designed and built to demonstrate the concept of an "Eco-campus".
Schools
Jiangnan University consists of 17 schools and offers 48 undergraduate programs with 9 disciplines including science, engineering, medicine, literature, economics, management, law, education and arts. Jiangnan University has 6 Post-doctoral Research Stations in the fields of Light Industry Technology and Engineering, Food Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Control Science and Engineering, Environment Engineering and Textile Engineering. It is entitled to confer master's degrees in 58 programs, and doctoral degrees in 28 programs. Southwest: School of Food Science and Technology School of Biotechnology School of Chemical and Material Engineering School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Wuxi School of Medicine Southeast: School of Business School of Law School of Marxism School of Foreign Studies School of Digital Media Northwest: School of Textile and Clothing School of Design
Northeast: Division of Sports
Research
The school has devoted itself to the mission of making China an innovation-driven country. The school has taken a leadership role in founding the Collaborative Innovation Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, and has founded five "111 Plan" Base for Innovation and Talent Recruiting and 18 international joint laboratories. Since 2012, the school has been awarded 7 State Scientific and Technological Progress Awards and State Technological Invention Awards, tied for 20th in China, and was ranked 17th in the Patent Award for Chinese Universities list in 2016. It is ranked 50th on the Chinese University Evaluation handbook, and is one of China's fastest growing universities.
ESI ranking (top 1%)
Agricultural Science,
Engineering
Chemistry
Biology and Biochemistry
Materials Science
Key research institutes
The National Key Lab of Food Science and Technology
Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education
Key Laboratory of Science and Technology of Eco-Textile, Ministry of Education
Faculty
The university has 3183 faculty members, including 1873 full-time instructors. 62.6% of faculty holds a senior title, 61.3% has a doctoral degree, and 36.2% has more than one year of overseas experience. The school has one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 14 "Thousand Talents Plan" awardees, 13 "Chang Jiang Scholars Program" distinguished professors, 5 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars awardees, five National Science Fund for Outstanding Scholars awardees, one "973 Program" chief scientist, eight "Ten Thousand Talent Program" awardees.
International Students
Jiangnan University began to accept international students from 1964, and has cultivated students from more than 80 countries. The university specially establishes "President Scholarship", "Taihu Scholarship” and “New Student Scholarship” for international students. In 2010, the university recruited 25 self-enroll Chinese Government Scholarship students. Doctoral Program for international students mainly includes: Food Science, Fermentation Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, Textile Science and Engineering, Control Science and Control Engineering, Chemistry Engineering and Technology, Environment Engineering, Light Industry Machinery and Packaging Engineering, Product Design Theory and Technology, etc.
