Soochow University The University, located in Suzhou, a famous historical and cultural city, is a national "world-class discipline construction university" jointly built by the Ministry of education and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is one of the first batch of universities selected in the national "211 Project" and "2011 plan". It is a University jointly built by the State Administration of science, technology and industry for national defense and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a key comprehensive university of Jiangsu Province, and has been selected into the national "111 plan" and excellent legal education Talent education and training plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent doctor education and training plan, national construction of high-level university public postgraduate project, National College Students' innovative experiment plan, national innovative talent training demonstration base, overseas high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship base, new engineering research and practice project, national innovation and Entrepreneurship Education reform demonstration University , Chinese government scholarship institutions for international students in China, etc.Soochow University, the predecessor of Soochow University, was founded in 1900. It was the first university in China to establish a modern university discipline system. It was the first university in China to carry out law (Anglo American Law) professional education, the first to carry out postgraduate education and to award a master's degree. It was also the first university in China to establish a journal. In 1952, the school of Arts and science of Soochow University, Sunan College of culture and education, and the Department of mathematics and physics of Jiangnan University merged to form Sunan Normal University, which was renamed Jiangsu Normal University in the same year. In 1982, the University was renamed Suzhou University. Since then, Suzhou sericulture College (1995), Suzhou Institute of silk technology (1997) and Suzhou Medical College (2000) have been merged into Suzhou University.As of April 2020, the university has four campuses, tiancizhuang, Dushuhu, Yangchenghu and futuristic, covering an area of 4586 mu, with a construction area of more than 1.59 million square meters; it has 30 colleges (departments); 13 disciplines have entered the world's top 1% of ESI; there are 5531 teaching staff; there are 27615 full-time undergraduates, 13160 master's students, 1859 doctoral students and 3271 international students.