Southeast University is located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and is a well-known institution of higher learning at home and abroad. The university is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and jointly established by Jiangsu Province, and is one of the key universities under the national "985 Project" and "211 Project". In 2017, Southeast University was selected into the list of Class A universities in the construction of world-class universities.
Southeast University is a university with a long history and profound heritage. The school was founded in 1902 as Sanjiang Normal School, and has gone through important development periods such as Liangjiang Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University, and National ** University. In 1952, the departments of colleges and universities across the country were adjusted, and the liberal arts and science departments of the school were moved out, with the former National ** University School of Engineering as the main body, and successively merged into Fudan University, Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Jinling University and other related departments, and established Nanjing Institute of Technology at the original site of the headquarters of the National ** University. In May 1988, the school was renamed Southeast University. In April 2000, the former Southeast University, Nanjing Railway Medical College, Nanjing Jiaotong College were merged, and Nanjing Geology School was merged to form the new Southeast University. In the course of more than 120 years of running the school, Southeast University has always been concerned about the world and the motherland, striving for self-improvement and pursuing excellence for scientific progress and national rejuvenation, and has gradually formed the excellent school spirit of "rigorous, realistic, united, and progressive" and the school-running philosophy of "serving the country with science and talents", and has created the spirit of the school motto of "stopping at perfection".
Southeast University has 34 faculties and 87 undergraduate majors, 39 first-level disciplines for doctoral degrees, 50 first-level disciplines for master's degrees, 8 doctoral professional degree programs, and 29 master's professional degree programs. There are 38,419 full-time students, including 16,785 undergraduates and 21,634 postgraduates. There are 1,994 international students in the university, including 1,689 international students with academic qualifications. The school has four campuses, Jiulong Lake, Dingjiaqiao and other campuses, covering an area of 5,888 acres, including 3,752 Jiulong Lake campuses35 acres, with a total construction area of about 89540,000 square meters. The school library covers an area of 6It is 690,000 square meters, with a collection of 4.69 million volumes of various paper books and materials, and 149 database retrieval platforms (233 secondary databases) can be accessed. The school also has a campus in Wuxi and a campus in Suzhou.
Southeast University is a comprehensive and research-oriented university with engineering as its main feature, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, art, history and other disciplines. 12 disciplines of the university were selected into the list of national "double first-class" construction disciplines, ranking eighth in the country; 13 disciplines are ranked in the top 1% of ESI in the world, of which engineering ranks 16th in the world, ranking in the top 10,000 in the ESI world, and computer science, materials science and chemistry are all ranked in the top 10000 in the ESI world.
The university has taken the lead in the construction of 2 national key laboratories, relying on the establishment of 1 national key laboratory, 1 national key laboratory, 1 national technology innovation center, 1 national engineering research center, 3 national and local joint engineering research centers, 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 joint laboratory for international cooperation of the Ministry of Education, 1 national professional laboratory, 11 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, and 7 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education. There are 33 postdoctoral research stations, 3 national liberal arts platforms, and 2 key high-end think tanks in Jiangsu Province.
Southeast University has a high-level faculty. There are 3,300 full-time teachers in the school, including 3,008 teachers with doctoral degrees and 2,431 teachers with principal and associate senior professional titles. There are 1,525 doctoral supervisors and 2,803 master's supervisors. There are 16 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 academicians of the European Academy of Sciences, 13 members of the 8th Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee, and about 500 outstanding talents with noble teachers, high teaching level, strong scientific and technological innovation ability, and great global academic influence. Southeast University is deepening the strategy of strengthening the university with talents, thoroughly implementing the "No. 1 Project" of talent work, and accelerating the construction of a first-class faculty.
Southeast University has an excellent reputation for education and teaching. Over the past century, the university has cultivated 380,000 outstanding talents of all kinds for the country and society, and a large number of elite leaders have emerged, including more than 200 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences who have worked or studied in Southeast University. The school is one of the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration universities, and the first batch of pilot universities for the comprehensive reform of "three comprehensive education" by the Ministry of Education. It was selected as one of the first batch of future technology colleges by the Ministry of Education (12 in the country), and was selected into the training plan for top-notch students in basic disciplines of the Ministry of Education 20 bases 3 pcs. A total of 53 majors have been selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 9 majors have been selected as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 5 majors have been selected as national comprehensive reform pilot projects, 23 majors have been selected as national characteristic major construction sites, and there are 36 national first-class resource sharing courses, 49 national first-class undergraduate courses, and 3 national ideological and political demonstration courses. 10 national virtual experimental teaching projects, 8 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and construction sites, and 3 national virtual experimental teaching centers. Since 2018, 51 people have been elected as members of the new National Teaching Steering Committee, including 3 chairmen and 10 vice chairmen. The university has established 12 national-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, 12 national-level engineering practice education centers, 11 teams have been selected as national-level teaching innovation teams, and 10 have been selected as the first batch of national-level virtual teaching and research department construction pilots. Southeast University has won the first prize of National Teaching Achievement Award for four consecutive years (once every four years), including 9 National Teaching Achievement Awards in 2018, ranking third among universities in China. He has won 11 awards in the first National Textbook Construction Award (tied for ninth in the country). In the new era, Southeast University adheres to the principle of cultivating people with virtue, inherits the fine tradition, reshapes the goal of talent training, and strives to cultivate leading talents with family and country feelings and international vision, taking responsibility to lead the future and benefit mankind.
Southeast University is an important base for scientific and technological research and radiation in China. The school adheres to the combination of production, education and research, and the scientific research funds in 2022 will be 360.1 billion yuan, 3,480 invention patent applications in China, 120 PCT patent applications, 2,997 invention patents authorized in China, ranking second among universities in the country, and 13,146 valid invention patents, ranking third among universities in the country. SCI and EI** are among the top universities in the country. From 2011 to 2021, the school took the lead in winning a total of 33 national science and technology awards, including 1 first prize of the National Technological Invention Award in 2011, 1 first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014, and 1 first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2020. In recent years, the university has participated in major national projects such as the "Lunar Exploration Program", "Three Gorges Project", "500-meter Aperture Radio Telescope", Beijing Sub-center, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, high-speed rail technology, Antarctic scientific research, wireless charging and other major national projects. In the past five years, he has taken the lead in winning 9 Outstanding Achievement Awards in Humanities and Social Sciences of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, including 2 first prizes, and the National University Science and Technology Park of Southeast University has been rated as an excellent national university science and technology park. At present, Southeast University is striving to create a high-level scientific and technological innovation pattern to better serve the major national development strategies.
Southeast University is one of the most active universities in China for international exchanges and cooperation. As of the end of 2022, the university has preliminarily established an international cooperation network of world-class (high-level) universities, and has established close cooperative relations with 47 world-class universities and high-level research institutions from 18 countries or regions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Maryland, the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the University of Leeds, the University of Birmingham, the Zurich Institute of Technology, and the Royal Institute of Technology. Technical University of Munich in Germany, ParisTech in France, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, Monash University in Australia, Osaka University in Japan, etc. In 2017, Southeast University initiated the establishment of the "Sino-British University Engineering Education and Research Alliance", which is the first university alliance featuring engineering education and research established by China and the United Kingdom, and nine famous British universities including Queen's University Belfast, the University of Birmingham, the University of Cambridge, the University of Cardiff, the University of Leeds, the University of Liverpool, University College London, the University of Nottingham and the University of Warwick have joined the alliance. In 2021, Southeast University and the University of Birmingham jointly initiated the establishment of the "Carbon Neutral World University Alliance", becoming the world's first world university alliance focusing on technology development and talent training in the field of carbon neutrality. The university has also cooperated with Monash University in Australia to establish the Southeast University-Monash University Suzhou Joint Graduate School, which is the first Sino-foreign joint graduate school approved by the Ministry of Education. In cooperation with Rennes University of France, the Southeast University - Rennes University Graduate School was established. Southeast University is accelerating the formation of an all-round, focused, multi-level, wide-ranging and high-level international exchange and cooperation pattern in the direction of "global high-end, substantive cooperation and leading development".
Forge ahead into a new era and write a new chapter. Today's Southeast University will uphold and practice the school motto of "Perfection", establish a first-class consciousness, focus on first-class goals, implement first-class standards, adhere to aiming at the frontier, serving the country, teachers and students-oriented, and talents first, promote multidisciplinary integration, science, engineering, culture and medicine, industry-university-research integration, and international cooperation, comprehensively deepen comprehensive reform, and strive to achieve major breakthroughs in talent training, scientific research, faculty, and international cooperation. A world-class university that satisfies the people has made outstanding contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the development and progress of human civilization. (Updated March 3, 2023).