YANGZOHU UNIVERSITY

Yangzhou University (YZU) is a key comprehensive provincial university, who pioneered in China in the merging of institutions of higher learning. The university was established in 1992 as a merger of 6 colleges.Currently in YZU there are 33,000 full-time undergraduate students, 9,000 postgraduate (doctorate and master) students and 11,000 students of continuing education. YZU’s 27 colleges offer 110 undergraduate programmes in 12 disciplines. YZU has 6 State-level Specialized Majors, 14 State-level Key Quality Courses, 1 State-level Bilingual Teaching Demonstration Course, 3 State-level Teaching Teams, 1 State-level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, 2 National Base for Talent Training with Cooperation in Agriculture, Science and Education, 20 Joint Labs with the Central Government, 29 Provincial-level Distinctive Majors, 15 Provincial-level Prestigious Majors and 13 Provincial-level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers in Basic Course. 2 majors are approved as State-level Experimental Programme for their innovative modes of talent cultivation. YZU was also winner of the Second Prize of National Award in Teaching as well as Special Award in Teaching in Higher Education in Jiangsu.

The teaching and college staff consists of nearly two thousand competent lecturers being involved in scholastic activities, thousand complete instructors and docents and one representative of the Chinese Academy of Technologies. Special Government Allowance is provided for ninety-seven faculty participants. Moreover, there are twenty-nine young professors are supplied with a title because of their major contribution.

Due to the fact that this academic organization is considered to be one of first schools and institutions being able to confer academic degrees (bachelor, magister and doctoral). As a result, it was able to operate five active departments for scholars in post-doctoral degree, thirty-two programs designated for scholars having a doctoral degree and one hundred thirty-three programs for magisters. Furthermore, it has one and six rights that allows them to grant. In YZU there are 3 governmental level major subjects (as well as one cultivation program), eight administerial subjects and investigation bases at a municipal level.

Being a university for more than a century, it has its own goals to scale fresh heights of prosperity. It is in the process of contributing enough precious experience designated to contribute diversity of important experience to the improvement of China’s Tertiary Education. Moreover, it is considered to be a model of reforms in educational life. At this moment, the University is at a new step of going after the methodological guideline and nation’s leadership and supporting an examination of evolvement to establish a classical college with a prospective future.