Jiangsu University of Technology
Updated:2015-12-16
Established in 1984, Jiangsu University of Technology (used to be Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, hereinafter abbreviated as JSUT) is one of the undergraduate universities characteristic of vocational education in China, covering eight faculties or academic disciplines, that is, engineering, literature, science, education, economics, management, law and art, focusing on different fields of engineering.
In 2008, JSUT was evaluated as "Excellent" in the Undergraduate Education Accreditation by the Ministry of Education.
In 2011, it was officially granted a pilot institution for cultivating post-graduates with professional Master degrees;
In 2012, Jinagsu Provincial Training Centre for Higher Vocational Education was set up and based in JSUT.
The total number of the students at the university is over 17,600.
JSUT has a teaching staff/faculty of nearly 1,200, among whom are 840
full-time teachers and professors, including over 510 professors and associate
professors and 138 PhDs, nine teachers or professors granted the governmental
allowance by the China's State Council, 37 awarded honorable titles of "Prominent Teachers or Scientific Researchers" at both the state and provincial
levels, including eight winning the "Prominent Teachers" Prize of Zeng Xianzi
Education Foundation, over 60 outstanding young and middle-aged teachers or
professors granted academic leaders in different Jiangsu provincial programs,
such as 333 High-level Professionals Cultivating Program, Qinlan Program, and
candidates of Six Talent Peaks Program.
Cooperating in cultivating
post-graduates with related higher education universities and colleges in
Germany, the UK, Norway and in and outside Jiangsu Province, JSUT has also
engaged over 50 professors as part-time supervisors of post-graduates, and more
than 100 famed experts and scholars, including Academicians from China Academy
of Engineering (CAE) as honorable, part-time, and even full-time professors.