Jilin University of Architecture

Jilin Jianzhu University is a key general higher education institution in Jilin Province, with engineering as its main discipline and civil engineering as its specialty. It is a multi-disciplinary university that supports and coordinates the development of science, engineering, liberal arts, management, law, art, and economics. It is a university jointly built by the Jilin Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It is one of the first 100 demonstration universities in the country to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. It is a training base for senior professionals in the field of urban and rural infrastructure in Jilin Province, a scientific and technological research and development base, and an industrial development decision-making consultation and technology innovation service base.

The school was founded in 1956 and is one of the first ten specialized schools of architecture established in New China. In 1960, with the approval of the State Council, the school was named Jilin Jianzhu Engineering College and began to offer undergraduate education. In 1997, it passed the undergraduate teaching qualification evaluation of the former State Education Commission. In 2003, the school became a master's degree-granting institution. In 2008, it received an "excellent" grade in the undergraduate teaching work level assessment of the Ministry of Education. In 2010, the school moved from the old campus of Hongqi Street to the new campus of Jingyue. In 2013, it was renamed Jilin Jianzhu University. In 2015, it passed the review and assessment of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. In 2017, the school was determined to be a university approved for the construction of a doctoral degree-granting institution in Jilin Province.

The school is located in the national high-tech industrial development zone-Changchun Jingyue High-tech Industrial Development Zone. To the east of the school is the Jingyuetan National 5A Forest Park, to the south is the Xinli Lake National Water Conservancy Scenic Area, and to the west is Changchun's mother river-Yitong River. The school campus covers an area of ​​948,000 square meters and a total construction area of ​​454,000 square meters. The school library has a collection of more than 1.4 million books, and the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 437 million yuan. The school campus planning is scientific and reasonable, and the functions are complete. The school continuously improves the humanistic environment, cultural facilities and landscape construction, optimizes the learning environment, and fully meets the needs of students to become talents.

The school has more than 16,000 full-time students, including more than 15,000 undergraduates, more than 1,400 postgraduates, and more than 100 full-time international students. The school currently has more than 1,300 faculty and staff, including 880 full-time teachers. Teachers with senior professional and technical positions account for more than 50% of the total number of full-time teachers, more than 370 with doctoral degrees, and more than 420 doctoral and master's tutors. The university has gathered more than 100 high-level experts and scholars, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, senior experts directly connected with the central government, senior professors in the field of philosophy and social sciences, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, personnel enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, returned overseas students with outstanding contributions to the country, "New Century Excellent Talents", "Changbai Mountain Scholars", "Changbai Mountain Skilled Teachers", senior experts in Jilin Province, candidates for the first, second and third levels of Jilin Province's top innovative talents, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Jilin Province, leaders of cross-century academic disciplines in Jilin Province, the first batch of 100 leading scientific and technological talents in Jilin Province, the first batch of leading professors in disciplines in Jilin Province, famous teachers in Jilin Province, outstanding teachers in Jilin Province, leaders of brand majors in Jilin Province, young and middle-aged backbone teachers in Jilin Province across the century, masters of architecture in Jilin Province, and masters of survey and design in Jilin Province. The university has 19 colleges (departments), including the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Civil Engineering, and the School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering. The school has 11 first-level master's degree-granting disciplines, including architecture, civil engineering, environmental science and engineering, materials science and engineering, surveying and mapping science and technology, management science and engineering, urban and rural planning, design, applied economics, Marxist theory, and safety science and engineering; it has 11 master's professional degree-granting categories, including architecture, machinery, resources and environment, energy and power, civil engineering and water conservancy, transportation, landscape architecture, social work, electronic information, engineering management, and art. Among them, civil engineering is a "first-class discipline A" discipline of Jilin Province's characteristic high-level disciplines; architecture is a "first-class discipline B" discipline of Jilin Province's characteristic high-level disciplines; materials science and engineering, management science and engineering, and environmental science and engineering are "advantageous and distinctive disciplines A" disciplines of Jilin Province's characteristic high-level disciplines. Smart city science and engineering is a "newly emerging interdisciplinary discipline" of Jilin Province's characteristic high-level disciplines.

The school insists on conducting scientific research around the major needs of national and regional economic and social development, and supports high-quality education and teaching and high-quality social services with high-level scientific research. The university is at the domestic advanced level in the fields of green buildings in severe cold regions, water environment governance and protection in the Songhua River Basin, disaster prevention and mitigation of buildings, urbanization construction planning, facility and real estate management (FM), building information collaborative design (BIM), and restoration and utilization of historical buildings. The university has two key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, namely "Songliao River Basin Water Environment" and "Cold Region Building Comprehensive Energy Saving". The university currently has 35 scientific research platforms above the provincial (ministerial) level, including the "Songliao River Basin Water Resources and Water Environment" Jilin Province College Major Demand Collaborative Innovation Center, Jilin Province Building Electrical Comprehensive Energy Saving Key Laboratory, Jilin Province Building Integrated Integrated Technology Science and Technology Collaborative Innovation Center, Jilin Province Structural and Seismic Science and Technology Innovation Center, Jilin Province Green and Ecological Building Materials Cross-Regional Cooperation Science and Technology Innovation Center, Jilin Province New Energy and Environmental Science and Technology Innovation Center, Jilin Province Cold Region Green Building Technology Engineering Research Center, "New Building Materials" Jilin Province's first batch of school-enterprise joint technology innovation laboratories, Jilin Province Construction Industry Development Research Base, and Jilin Architectural Culture Research Base. In recent years, the school has undertaken more than 120 national scientific research projects such as the National Science and Technology Major Project, the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation, and the National Art Foundation, and more than 1,000 vertical scientific research projects at all levels; the school has won more than 300 government awards at all levels, including 2 second prizes for national scientific and technological progress, 1 second prize for national technological inventions, and 1 first prize for scientific and technological progress from the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China awarded the school the honorary title of "National Advanced Unit for Science and Technology Work in the Construction System".

The school offers 53 undergraduate majors, with a deep integration of discipline chain, professional chain and industrial chain in the construction field, and has established a number of advantageous majors (groups) serving the development of the region and the construction industry. Six majors, including safety engineering, civil engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, environmental engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering, and geological engineering, have passed the engineering education certification in advance, achieved international substantive equivalence, and entered the "first echelon" of global engineering education. Six civil engineering majors, including architecture (undergraduate and master's majors), civil engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering, engineering management, and urban and rural planning, have passed the national civil engineering professional education evaluation. The school has 5 provincial "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot majors, 2 provincial "Talent Training Model Innovation Experimental Zones", 1 provincial "Professional Comprehensive Reform Experimental Zone", 2 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration professional project construction sites, and 2 provincial basic disciplines. Top talent training bases. In the selection of the Ministry of Education's first-class undergraduate major construction "Double 10,000 Plan", the school's architecture, civil engineering, building environment and energy engineering, road bridge and river crossing engineering, inorganic non-metallic materials engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, engineering management, environmental design, water supply and drainage science and engineering and other 9 majors were rated as national first-class professional construction sites, and urban and rural planning, building electrical and intelligent, urban underground space engineering, geological engineering, safety engineering, environmental engineering, transportation engineering and other 7 majors were approved as first-class professional construction sites in Jilin Province. In recent years, the school has won 29 national and provincial teaching achievement awards, among which "Reform Practice of Engineering Talent Training in Local Universities Facing Professional Needs" won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement in 2018.

The school strives to improve the quality of talent training, focuses on enhancing students' innovative spirit, practical ability and social responsibility, and takes promoting students' all-round development and adapting to social needs as the fundamental standard of talent training quality. It is committed to cultivating and creating "solid theoretical foundation, solid practical ability, simple thinking style", applied senior professionals with international vision and innovation ability, and has formed the "three real" talent training characteristics. The school attaches great importance to innovation and entrepreneurship education. It is one of the first demonstration universities in the country to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. In 2017, it was rated as "Top 50 Universities with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China" by the Ministry of Education. In 2018 and 2020, it was rated as "China's Typical Demonstration University for Entrepreneurship and Innovation" by the China Internet News Center; it has been successively identified as "Jilin Province Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base" and "Jilin Province University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" by the Jilin Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Department of Education and other departments.

The school strives to create a campus culture that advocates science, is rigorous and realistic, and is good at creativity. It has been rated as "Jilin Province's Three-dimensional Education Comprehensive Reform Pilot University", "Jilin Province Civilized Campus", "Jilin Province Civilized Unit", "National Factory Affairs (School Affairs) Open and Democratic Management Work Demonstration Unit", and was awarded the honorary title of Jilin Province's "May 1st Labor Award". The school continues to strengthen the construction of teachers' ethics and strives to create a team of teachers with ideals, moral sentiments, solid knowledge, and benevolence. The "Songliao River Basin Energy and Environment Teacher Innovation Team" was identified as the first batch of Huang Danian-style teacher teams in Jilin Province's colleges and universities. In recent years, dozens of teachers have won honorary titles such as "National March 8 Red Flag Bearer", provincial and municipal labor models, provincial and municipal outstanding Communist Party members, and advanced teachers. The school vigorously strengthens the humanistic quality and scientific spirit education of students, strives to improve students' personality, temperament, cultivation and other internal qualities, integrates the requirements and tasks of ideological and moral education into students' study and life, and organizes campus cultural activities with brand characteristics. In recent years, the school has repeatedly won excellent results in various activities of college students across the country and Jilin Province, and has been rated as a national excellent organization unit.

The school's graduate employment rate and employment quality have continued to remain at a high level, and it has been rated as "Advanced Collective for Employment Management of Graduates from Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Jilin Province" many times. The employment quality of graduates has steadily improved. In recent years, the proportion of graduates entering the first-tier cities in the country and the proportion of graduates entering the world and domestic top 500 companies such as China Construction Co., Ltd., China Railway Group Co., Ltd., China Railway Construction Co., Ltd., China Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd., and China Metallurgical Construction Group Co., Ltd. have reached more than 50%. Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 80,000 graduates who are active in the field of national urban and rural infrastructure construction, and have become the backbone and backbone of architectural research, design, construction, management and other fields.

In order to accelerate the modernization of school education and cultivate high-level international talents with global vision and international competitiveness, the school has established cooperative exchanges with more than 60 universities and research institutions in more than 50 countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Through the implementation of Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, the school actively introduced advanced educational concepts and high-quality educational resources from developed countries. It has successively cooperated with the Pacific State University of Russia, Portland State University of the United States, and Youngstown State University of the United States in the fields of architecture, engineering management, civil engineering, electrical engineering and automation to hold undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education projects; it has carried out academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with foreign universities and research institutions such as the University of Iowa, the University of the Arts in San Francisco, and the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom through teacher exchanges abroad, student exchanges, and overseas talent introduction; the school has appointed more than 100 experts and scholars, including foreign academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as honorary professors and visiting professors, and invites more than 50 foreign experts and scholars to give lectures at the school every year; and sends more than 300 teachers and students to foreign countries for academic exchanges, scientific research cooperation, inspection visits, and visiting studies every year.

Facing the important strategic opportunity period of my country's economic and social development in the new era, the school insists on taking discipline construction as the guide, focusing on institutional and mechanism reform, focusing on improving innovation capabilities, and adhering to the path of connotation development. All teachers, students and staff of the school are motivated and hardworking, overcoming difficulties and striving for the goal of building a "distinctive, first-class, and leading applied research-oriented socialist modern university"!

(Data as of June 2021)