Changshu Institute of Technology

Changshu Institute of Technology is a public full-time undergraduate college in Jiangsu Province. It was founded in 1958 (Suzhou Normal College) and upgraded to a university in 2004 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school is the first pilot university in the country for the new round of undergraduate teaching qualification evaluation of the Ministry of Education, a pilot university for the "National Education System Reform", a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's informatization construction, and the first provincial undergraduate university in Jiangsu Province jointly built by the province and the city. So far, it has trained more than 100,000 talents of various types for the country and society. The school is located in Changshu, Suzhou, a national historical and cultural city with rich humanities, beautiful mountains and rivers, and an international garden city. It has two campuses, East Lake and Southeast.

Changshu Institute of Technology is located in Changshu, Suzhou, a national historical and cultural city with rich humanities, beautiful mountains and rivers, and an international garden city. It is a public full-time general undergraduate college in Jiangsu Province. The school was founded in 1958 (Suzhou Normal College) and was approved by the Ministry of Education to upgrade to a university in 2004. The school adheres to the idea of ​​interactive development between schools and local areas and cooperation between schools and enterprises. Focusing on local economic and social development, it strives to cultivate high-quality applied talents, continuously improves the level of scientific research and technology services, and forms a school-running pattern with science and engineering as the main and multi-disciplinary coordinated development. The school is a pilot project university for the "National Education System Reform", a national "13th Five-Year Plan" applied undergraduate industry-education integration development project construction university, a national "14th Five-Year Plan" education power promotion project reserve university, the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot university, the National University Quality Assurance Institutions Alliance Vice Chairman Unit, Jiangsu Province's first provincial undergraduate university jointly built by the province and the city, and has trained more than 100,000 talents of all kinds for the country and society.

In the course of more than 60 years of running schools, Changshu Institute of Technology has been immersed in Wu culture. After several generations of hard work, it has formed the school motto of "establishing the foundation and seeking truth, and constantly improving and striving for the future", cultivated the campus spirit of "opposing mediocrity, pursuing excellence, bearing the burden and forging ahead, and daring to surpass", established the development strategy of "establishing the school with quality, distinguished and famous, strengthening the school with talents, developing the school with culture, and opening up the school", and condensed the talent training concept of "focusing on general knowledge and integrating into the industry", and has embarked on a development path with its own characteristics.
The school covers an area of ​​more than 1,800 acres, with a construction area of ​​more than 600,000 square meters, and has two campuses, Donghu and Southeast. The school currently has a total asset value of nearly 427 million yuan for teaching, scientific research and internship equipment, a library collection of 1.8708 million paper documents, 28 Chinese and foreign databases/platforms, and 35TB of digital information resources. It has two academic journals, "Dongwu Academic" (a core journal of the Innovation Engineering Research Evaluation Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and "Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology".

The school currently has 14 secondary colleges (departments) and 49 undergraduate majors, covering 7 major disciplines including engineering, science, literature, economics, management, education, and art, and enrolls students from 21 provinces across the country; there are 19,749 regular full-time undergraduate students, more than 100 full-time graduate students in joint training, and more than 5,800 students in adult education in the School of Continuing Education. There are 1,546 faculty members, including 1,112 full-time teachers, 699 senior professional titles, and 613 doctors. 264 people have been selected as the special allowance of the State Council, the young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in the province, the provincial "333 Project", "Qinglan Project", "Six Talent Peaks", and "Provincial Double Innovation Doctors", 4 national and provincial teaching masters, and 11 provincial excellent teaching teams (scientific and technological innovation teams).

The school aims to "provide first-class applied undergraduate education and cultivate first-class applied undergraduate talents", adheres to the principle of "strengthening connotation, establishing brand, and cultivating characteristics", takes brand professional construction as the guide, takes professional certification as the starting point, and takes industry-education integration as the path to explore the reform of interdisciplinary and cross-professional compound applied talent training mode based on the construction of modern industrial colleges. The reform of talent training mode of modern industrial colleges has obvious characteristics. It has established the first elevator engineering college in the country, the first photovoltaic technology college in the province, and several modern industrial colleges such as automotive engineering, textiles and clothing, artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical biotechnology, intelligent manufacturing, acoustic technology, emergency management and e-commerce. It has obtained 1 of the first batch of national modern industrial colleges and 2 provincial key industrial colleges (including emergency management college). It has won 1 national higher education teaching achievement award and 35 provincial and ministerial higher education teaching achievement awards. It has undertaken 4 new engineering and new liberal arts research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education and more than 50 provincial and ministerial teaching reform research projects. It has 7 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 4 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education's "Excellence Plan", 2 pilot comprehensive reforms of undergraduate majors of the Ministry of Education, 2 national characteristic professional construction sites, 7 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 18 provincial university brand professional construction projects, 5 provincial "Excellence Plan" pilot majors (projects), 6 provincial key majors (categories), 8 provincial characteristic majors, and 9 majors have passed the professional certification of the Ministry of Education. There is 1 national engineering practice education center, 1 national off-campus engineering practice education base for college students, 1 Jiangsu Province College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Education Center, and 11 Jiangsu Province Experimental Teaching and Practice Education Centers.

The school actively adapts to the needs of local economic and social development and industry and enterprise development, and strengthens discipline infrastructure construction and scientific research. There are 4 provincial key disciplines in the "14th Five-Year Plan", 3 provincial key construction laboratories, 2 provincial engineering research centers, 1 provincial joint technology transfer center, 1 provincial university humanities and social sciences off-campus research base, 1 provincial science and technology innovation think tank base, and 2 provincial foreign expert studios; it has 1 national small and medium-sized enterprise public service demonstration platform and 1 national university science and technology park. In recent years, the university has undertaken nearly 200 national scientific research projects and nearly 350 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, won more than 60 scientific research awards at various levels and above, participated in the compilation of 5 national standards, established 7 technology transfer sub-centers, and built more than 40 industry-university-research cooperation bases.

The school actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation. In recent years, experts and scholars have been sent to more than ten countries and regions for exchanges and further studies; hundreds of foreign teachers have been hired; friendly contacts have been established with more than 90 universities in more than 20 countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, China, to carry out exchange student programs and scientific research cooperation; "3+1" and "3+1.5" Sino-foreign cooperative education dual degree programs with three universities in Germany and the United Kingdom; established the Sino-US College, and carried out the Sino-US credit recognition joint training program (dual degree) with three universities in the United States; recruited four-year undergraduate students from countries along the "Belt and Road". In addition, the school has a test site for the Chinese Proficiency Test for Foreigners (HSK) of the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreigner.

The school has always attached great importance to the construction of school spirit and academic style, and has been listed as one of the first batch of provincial colleges and universities that have achieved the standard of school spirit construction. Over the years, the school has been continuously rated as "Jiangsu Civilized Unit" (Jiangsu Civilized School) and "Jiangsu Safe Campus", and won the honorary titles of "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Advanced Unit of Propaganda, Ideology and Culture Work of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League", "Advanced Collective of Graduate Employment of Provincial Colleges and Universities", "Advanced Collective of Provincial Colleges and Universities for Innovation and Excellence", "Advanced College of Faculty Construction of the Province", "Advanced Unit of Education Propaganda Work of the Province", "Advanced Collective of Education and Scientific Research of the Province", "Advanced Collective of Provincial College Libraries", "Advanced Collective of Archives Work of Provincial Colleges and Universities", etc. The school's achievements have been reported by mainstream news media such as Guangming Daily and China Education Daily many times.

Looking to the future, Changshu Institute of Technology will take "running an applied university well" and "cultivating applied talents" as the main line, and "building a brand university and serving regional development" as the action program, adhere to the leadership of the Party, adhere to the rule of law, adhere to deepening reform, adhere to characteristic development, comprehensively strengthen party building, comprehensively strengthen connotation construction, comprehensively promote reform and innovation, and comprehensively promote career development, and strive to build a first-class applied university with distinctive characteristics and famous quality as soon as possible!

(Data as of April 2022)