Jiangxi Normal University Science and Technology College is located in the core area of the national-level Ganjiang New District, near Poyang Lake and at the southern foot of Mount Lu, in the Education and Science City of Gongqing City, Jiangxi Province. The college covers an area of 800 acres, with a building area of over 200,000 square meters, making it a beautiful campus filled with the atmosphere of "books, humanity, youth, and green."
The college was founded in May 2001 and is affiliated with Jiangxi Normal University. It is a full-time public higher education institution approved by the Ministry of Education and the Jiangxi Provincial Government. The college has always adhered to the educational policies of the Communist Party of China and inherited the fine traditions and advantages of Jiangxi Normal University. The college upholds the motto "Maintain Integrity, Seek Truth, and Integrate Knowledge and Action," continuously reinforcing its educational philosophy of "building a school with quality, developing a school with talent, strengthening a school with distinct characteristics, and shaping a school with culture." The college strives to enhance education and cultivate more application-oriented talents needed by society, aiming to "cultivate more refined talents and make education more aligned with the job market."
The college integrates eight disciplines: education, economics, arts, literature, law, management, science, and engineering. It has 10 secondary schools and 48 undergraduate programs, 5 master's degree programs for joint training, and 4 research centers. The college recruits students nationwide and focuses primarily on undergraduate education while actively developing graduate education and appropriately expanding continuing education. Currently, there are more than 13,000 full-time undergraduate students.
The college has appointed Professor Wang Zikun, a renowned mathematician, educator, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the honorary dean. The faculty consists of nearly 600 full-time teachers, over 60% of whom hold senior professional titles, and more than 90% have master's degrees or higher. A number of teachers have been selected for provincial and municipal talent projects, and many are leaders in academic organizations or are pursuing doctoral degrees. The college has formed a well-structured and highly skilled professional teaching team. The college has actively explored new models for managing research projects, and high-level research achievements have increased significantly. It was the first independent college in the province to receive approval for National Natural Science Fund and National Arts Fund projects. In provincial-level education achievements, such as teaching achievement awards, first-class courses, and excellent courses, the college consistently ranks at the forefront among independent colleges in the province.
The college places a strong emphasis on education and teaching, considering talent cultivation as the core of its mission. It focuses on the development of high-quality application-oriented talents and advocates the culture of "equal emphasis on character and academics, learning and practice, and theory and application." The college has developed a new curriculum system and talent training model based on the four dimensions of "virtue, academic degree, professional position, and personal quality." It has created "provincial first-class, nationally renowned" specialty and brand programs. Since its founding, the college has consistently ranked at the top of provincial peers in student quality, employment rate, graduate school entrance rate, civil service exam passing rate, English and computer exam pass rates, and law professional qualification exam success rates. It has also achieved remarkable results in academic competitions, scientific and technological activities, and sports events. Particularly, the college leads the province's independent colleges in high-level competitions such as the China International "Internet+" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the "Challenge Cup" China College Students Entrepreneurship Plan Competition, the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the National College Student Advertising Art Competition, the National College Student E-Commerce "Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship" Challenge, and the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press National College Student English Series Competition.
The college adheres to an open education model and actively promotes internationalization. It has established stable intercollegiate cooperation with more than 10 universities in the UK, Japan, Russia, Hungary, Australia, South Korea, and other countries. It ranks among the top 10 universities in Jiangxi Province in terms of overseas degree-holding teachers, teachers going abroad for further studies, and conducting international cooperation. The college has over 50 education internship and practical training bases both within Jiangxi and in other provinces.
In the 2015 China Independent College Best Programs Ranking, the college was ranked first in Jiangxi Province for the number and level of its best programs and star-rated programs. In the 2023 China Alumni Network Ranking for Independent Colleges, the college entered the top 20 independent colleges nationwide for the first time, retaining its position as the number one independent college in Jiangxi Province and advancing to a four-star rating. The college also earned the "Excellent" rating in the 2023 Comprehensive Assessment of Independent Colleges in Jiangxi Province. In the provincial evaluation of undergraduate programs, it ranked first in terms of the number and proportion of top-ranked programs among independent colleges in the province. The Music and Fine Arts programs were rated as four-star programs in Jiangxi Province, making the college the only independent college in the province with star-rated programs. Eleven teacher education programs have been exempted from the teacher qualification exam, as approved by the Ministry of Education. The college has repeatedly been recognized as an "Excellent University" in graduate employment evaluations and as an "Advanced Unit" in graduate employment work in Jiangxi Province. The college has been widely reported by authoritative media outlets such as CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, People's Network, Guangming Online, and Jiangxi TV, enhancing its reputation in education.
In this new era, with a new starting point and mission, the college will continue to unite closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. Guided by Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the college will strengthen its "four awarenesses," firm up its "four confidences," and uphold the "two safeguards." It will inherit and promote the great spirit of the Party's founding, take on responsibilities, act proactively, work together, and strive to build a university that the Party and the people trust and that students and faculty are satisfied with, contributing to the achievement of the second centenary goal and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Data as of May 2024)
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