Wuxi Taihu University
Wuxi Taihu University is a full-time, multi-disciplinary applied undergraduate university established with the approval of the Ministry of Education. It is located in the national forest park in Wuxi, covering an area of 2,000 mu with more than 22,000 teachers and students. It is known as "the University in the Garden" and is adjacent to Shanghai with convenient transportation and beautiful scenery. The university originated from Jiangnan University, a century-old "double first-class" university, which was founded in 2002 and approved as a master's degree granting project construction unit in 2017. In the newly released "2023 Soft Science China University Ranking", Wuxi Taihu University ranks the top of similar universities in the country and the first of similar universities in Jiangsu Province.
The faculty is strong and the professors are scholarly
The university attaches great importance to the construction of teaching staff, adheres to the "expert management of the university, professors and scholars", and introduces a large number of high-level talents from home and abroad. More than 95% of the full-time teachers have doctoral and master's degrees, including 300 outstanding talents such as experts with special subsidies from the government of The State Council, national famous teachers, experts with outstanding contributions from young and middle-aged people in Jiangsu Province, outstanding teachers in Jiangsu Province, training objects of Jiangsu Province's "333 Project" and "Qinglan Project" in colleges and universities, part-time professors in foreign famous universities and domestic industry professors. Ten academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, including Xu Hannan and Miao Changwen, were appointed as special professors of the university. The faculty undertook 923 projects of National Natural Science Foundation, Social Science Foundation and provincial and ministerial level vertical and horizontal projects; He has published more than 2800 papers, and accepted more than 680 papers in SCI, EI, SSCI, CSSCI, CSCD and other high-level journals at home and abroad. 526 invention patents and utility model patents authorized by the State; He has won more than 200 national, provincial and municipal outstanding teaching and scientific research awards.
Popular majors are distinctive
The university has 18 teaching units, including the university of Internet of Things Engineering, the university of Intelligent Equipment Engineering, the university of Intelligent Construction, the university of Business, the university of Accounting, the university of Foreign Languages, the university of Health and Nursing, and the College of Scotland. The University's five majors, namely Internet of Things Engineering, mechanical engineering, accounting, International Economics and Trade, and Visual Communication Design, have been selected as national first-class undergraduate majors. Four courses, including "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice" and "Brand Image Design", were selected as national first-class courses, and the number of selected courses ranked first among similar universities in China; Design, applied economics, computer science and technology are the key construction disciplines of Jiangsu Province's "13th Five-Year Plan", and the major of "Accounting", A class brand project of universities in Jiangsu Province; Eighteen majors, including Business English, visual communication design, engineering management, Internet of Things engineering, automation and mechanical engineering, have been selected as first-class undergraduate majors in Jiangsu universities. The Internet of Things Application Technology Laboratory was rated as the key construction laboratory of universities in Jiangsu Province, the Jiangsu Capital Market Research Center was selected as the Jiangsu University humanities and social science off-campus research base, the Jiangsu Industrial Transformation and Innovation Development Research Center was selected as the Jiangsu University Philosophy and social science key construction base, and the information technology Practice Education Center and the economic management experiment and training center were selected as the provincial teaching demonstration center. With domestic advanced Internet of Things, robotics, intelligent manufacturing and other new engineering, data finance, network accounting and other features of the economic management disciplines, visual design, three-dimensional animation and art disciplines, big data, cloud computing and computer application disciplines as well as health care, innovation and entrepreneurship and other experimental and practical training platforms, to serve students' application ability training and industrial transformation and upgrading.
The quality of university-enterprise cooperation is leading
The university has a deep integration of production and education, and university-enterprise cooperation in education. The university has co-built 398 teaching bases and 10 industrial colleges with leading enterprises such as Alibaba, Rockwell, ZTE, National Supercomputing Center and Red Bean Group, closely docking enterprises and implementing "embedded" training. More than 300 senior managers and experts from enterprises and research institutes have been hired as adjunct professors. In recent years, Students won the China Engineering Robot Competition, the National University Biological Networking Design Competition, the National Electronic Design Competition, the National College Student Computer Design Competition, the National Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the national 3D The competition, the National English Competition for College Students, CCTV "Star of Hope", Jiangsu Province "Youth" Entrepreneurship Competition, Jiangsu Province Higher Mathematics Competition and other authoritative competitions have won more than 2,000 first and second prizes at the national, provincial and municipal levels.
There are broad prospects for employment and entrepreneurship
The university has broad employment channels for graduates, high employment matching rate, high salary, and strong innovation and entrepreneurship ability of students. The university organizes more than 100 campus supply and demand fairs every year. In the past three years, more than 3,500 employers provide more than 82,000 jobs each year, with a ratio of 18:1 to the number of graduates, fully meeting the employment needs of graduates. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 98%. For two consecutive years, the university has been rated as A university in the quantitative assessment of the employment of college graduates in the province by the Provincial Department of Education. In recent years, a large number of outstanding graduates of innovation and entrepreneurship have emerged. Among them, Guo Changxin, a representative of village officials, was cordially received by Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee. The annual output value of his enterprises is more than 26 million yuan. The annual output value of the entity company founded by Yang Donghua, the entrepreneurship representative, is 100 million yuan; Liu Nan founded a technology company with great success and won the "Top Ten entrepreneurial pacesetters" in Jiangsu Province; Lu Hailin, an outstanding graduate of the university of Nursing and deputy head nurse of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of Wuxi Fourth Hospital, came to Wuhan's aid during the epidemic in 2020 and was praised as the "most beautiful retrograder" in the fight against the epidemic.
It has a reputation as a national model
The university adheres to the university motto of "Self-improvement, economic application" and insists on transformation development, connotation development and characteristic development. It has won more than 30 national and provincial honors, such as "National May 1st Labor Award", "China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Demonstration Base", "National application-oriented University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration university", "Advanced Collective of Jiangsu Province Education Work" and "Jiangsu Province Safe Campus Demonstration University". It was selected as the "cooperative university of the Ministry of Education - ZTE ICT Industry and Education Integration Innovation Base", the pilot university of the Sino-US Applied Technology Education "Double Hundred Plan", and was elected as the vice chairman of the National Alliance of new undergraduate colleges and universities and the vice chairman unit of the National non-profit University Alliance. People's Daily has reported the university's advanced experience for three consecutive times, CCTV, Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily, China Education Daily, Xinhua Daily, People's Net, Xinhua Net, Phoenix Net and other media have reported the university's performance for more than 500 times, and the university has made advanced typical speeches at conferences held by the Ministry of Education for many times. It has become a banner for the reform and innovation of similar universities in the country.
Global vision of international cooperation
Extensive joint training of talents with foreign famous universities and domestic "double first-class" universities, approved by the Ministry of Education, the university and the University of the West of Scotland in the world's top universities jointly set up Wuxi Taihu College Scottish College, through the introduction of foreign high-quality education resources, to promote the cultivation of international vision, understand international rules, can participate in international affairs of international high-end applied talents. Students can obtain the "double degree" of two universities in China and Britain, filling the gap of similar universities in the country; Signed the "Inter-university Cooperation Agreement" with the University of East London, the University of Scotland, Hall University, the University of Western Australia and other international universities; Jointly train master and doctoral students with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, etc. It has launched visiting camp programs with Harvard University, Stanford University, Cambridge University, National University of Singapore and other famous universities. Every year, many students go abroad for exchange, further study, and pursue postgraduate studies in famous universities at home and abroad.