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Wuxi Taihu University
China

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Official website: http://www.wxu.edu.cn/
Tel：0510-85509888,0510-85522008,0510-85503999
Address：No. 68, Qianrong Road, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province
Wuxi Taihu University is a full-time, multidisciplinary applied undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education. It is located in the urban area of Wuxi and in a national forest park, covering an area of 2,000 acres, with more than 20,000 teachers and students. It is known as the "university in the garden", adjacent to Shanghai, with convenient transportation and beautiful scenery. The school originated from the "double first-class" university with a century-old heritage, Jiangnan University. It was founded in 2002 and was approved as a project construction unit for the master's degree awarding authority in 2017. In the 2019 China Alumni Association University Rankings, Wuxi Taihu University ranked first among similar universities in Jiangsu Province. In the 2021 Soft Science China University Rankings, Wuxi Taihu University ranked 6th in the country and first among similar universities in Jiangsu Province. The school attaches great importance to the construction of the teaching staff. There are 1,929 teachers, and more than 95% of full-time teachers have doctoral and master's degrees. Among them, there are 300 outstanding talents such as experts with special government allowances from the State Council, national teaching masters, outstanding young and middle-aged experts in Jiangsu Province, outstanding teachers in Jiangsu Province, training targets of Jiangsu Province's "333 Project" and "Blue Project" of colleges and universities, specially appointed part-time professors from famous foreign universities, and domestic industry professors. Teachers have undertaken a total of 459 national, provincial, ministerial, municipal and horizontal projects; published more than 2,800 papers, including 586 high-level papers such as SCI, SSCI, EI, CSSCI, CSCD, etc., and won more than 100 national outstanding achievement awards, Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Awards, Jiangsu Province Teaching Achievement Awards, etc. Popular majors with distinctive characteristics The school has 18 teaching units including the School of Internet of Things Engineering, School of Intelligent Equipment Engineering, School of Intelligent Construction, School of Business, School of Accounting, School of Art, School of Foreign Languages, School of Health and Nursing, and Scottish College. The school's Internet of Things Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Accounting majors were selected as national first-class undergraduate majors in 2019, ranking first among similar universities in the country; it has design, applied economics, computer science and technology, and other Jiangsu Province's "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" key construction disciplines, and Jiangsu Province's A-class brand project "Accounting" major; Business English, visual communication design, engineering management, Internet of Things Engineering, Automation, Mechanical Engineering, Accounting and other 15 majors were selected as first-class undergraduate majors in Jiangsu universities; the Internet of Things Application Technology Laboratory was rated as a key construction laboratory of Jiangsu universities, the Southern Jiangsu Capital Market Research Center was selected as an off-campus research base for humanities and social sciences of Jiangsu universities, and the Southern Jiangsu Industrial Transformation and Innovation Development Research Center was selected as a key construction base for philosophy and social sciences of Jiangsu universities. The Information Technology Practice Education Center and the Economic Management Experimental Training Center were selected as provincial teaching demonstration centers. It has new engineering disciplines featuring domestic advanced Internet of Things, robots, and intelligent manufacturing, business and management disciplines featuring data finance and network accounting, art disciplines featuring visual design and 3D animation, computer application disciplines featuring big data and cloud computing, and experimental training platforms such as health care, innovation and entrepreneurship, serving students' application ability training and industrial transformation and upgrading. The quality of school-enterprise cooperation is leading. The school has deep integration of production and education, and collaborative education between schools and enterprises. The school has built 298 teaching bases with leading enterprises such as Alibaba, Rockwell, ZTE, 58th Institute of China Electronics Group, National Supercomputing Center, and Hongdou Group, providing high-quality internship practice and innovation and entrepreneurship skills training. In recent years, students have won more than 950 awards in national and provincial high-level competitions such as the China Engineering Robot Competition, the National College Student Internet of Things 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 Competition, the National College English Competition, CCTV "Star of Hope", Jiangsu Province "Chuang Qingchun" Entrepreneurship Competition, and Jiangsu Province Higher Mathematics Competition. International cooperation with a global vision is extensively carried out to jointly train talents with famous foreign universities and domestic "Double First-Class" universities. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school and the University of the West of Scotland, which is ranked 400+ in the world, jointly established the Scottish College of Wuxi Taihu University. By introducing high-quality foreign educational resources, it promotes the training of international high-end applied talents with international vision, knowledge of international rules and the ability to participate in international affairs; signed "Undergraduate, Master and Doctoral Direct Inter-school Cooperation Agreement" with internationally renowned universities such as the University of East London, the University of Scotland, Hall University, and the University of Western Australia in Australia; jointly trained master's and doctoral students with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; carried out visiting scholar camp projects with a number of famous universities such as Harvard University, Stanford University, Cambridge University, and the National University of Singapore. Every year, many students go abroad for exchanges, study abroad, and are admitted to famous domestic and foreign universities to pursue graduate studies. The employment and entrepreneurship prospects are broad, the employment channels are wide, and the students have strong innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. The school organizes more than 100 campus supply and demand meetings every year. In the past three years, more than 3,500 employers have provided more than 82,000 jobs each year, and the ratio of the number of jobs to the number of graduates is 18:1, which fully meets the employment needs of graduates. The employment rate of graduates has always remained above 98%. In recent years, a large number of outstanding graduates in innovation and entrepreneurship have emerged. Among them, village official representative Guo Changxin was cordially received by Wang Yang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The annual output value of the enterprise he founded is more than 26 million yuan; the annual output value of the entity company founded by entrepreneurial representative Yang Donghua is more than 40 million yuan; Liu Nan founded a technology company with great success and won the title of "Top Ten Entrepreneurs" in Jiangsu Province. Lu Hailin, an outstanding graduate of the School of Nursing and deputy head nurse of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of Wuxi Fourth Hospital, rushed to Wuhan during the 2020 epidemic and was hailed as the "most beautiful retrograde" in the fight against the epidemic. The school has a national exemplary reputation and adheres to the school motto of "self-improvement and practical application", insists on transformation development, connotation development and characteristic development, and 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 School", "Jiangsu Province Education Advanced Collective" and "Jiangsu Province Safe Campus Demonstration University". It was selected as the "Ministry of Education-ZTE ICT Industry-Education Integration Innovation Base Cooperation College", and the pilot college of the Sino-US Applied Technology Education "Double Hundred Plan". It was elected as the chairman of the National Alliance of Newly Transformed Undergraduate Colleges and Universities, the vice chairman of the National Alliance of Newly Established Undergraduate Colleges and Universities, and the vice chairman of the National Alliance of Non-profit Colleges and Universities. The People's Daily reported the school's advanced experience three times in a row. CCTV, Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily, China Education Daily, Xinhua Daily, People's Daily, Xinhuanet, Phoenix.com and other media reported the school's performance more than 500 times. The school has made advanced typical speeches at conferences held by the Ministry of Education many times, becoming a banner of reform and innovation among similar universities in the country.