June 5438 +2000 10, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Yichun Normal University, Yichun Medical College, Yichun Agricultural College and Yichun Amateur University were merged and upgraded to undergraduate colleges, and Yichun University was established.
The school is located in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, the central city of western Jiangxi. Yichun has been known as "the hometown of beautiful women in the south of the Yangtze River and the prosperous state of cultural relics" since ancient times. It is one of the first ecological pilot cities, a national garden city, a national greening model city, an excellent tourist city in China and a national health city. Yichun today has beautiful scenery and convenient transportation. Shanghai-Ruian Expressway, Hangzhou-Changzhou High-speed Railway and zhejiang-jiangxi railway pass through the city, and Mingyueshan Civil Airport extends in all directions.
The school has a headquarters campus and a north campus, covering an area of 1364765 square meters; At present, there are full-time students 18997, including 67 master students, 7095 undergraduates/kloc-0, 526 junior college students/kloc-0, and 309 foreign students. There are full-time teachers 1042, and 233 external teachers, of which more than 40% are teachers with senior titles, and nearly 70% are doctors and masters. More than 65,438+000 senior experts, including Yuan Longping, academician of China Academy of Engineering and director of National Hybrid Rice Research Center, were hired as visiting professors.
The school has 18 teaching colleges and 72 undergraduate majors. There are 2 national majors, 2 national "excellent talents education and training programs" majors, the national comprehensive professional reform pilot 1 one, and the national off-campus practice base for college students 1 one. There are 4 key disciplines in the 12th Five-Year Plan at the provincial level, 8 majors at the provincial level, 4 pilot projects of "Excellent Talents Education and Training Plan" at the provincial level, 4 pilot projects of comprehensive reform at the provincial level, 2 experimental areas of innovative talents training mode at the provincial level, and 3 experimental teaching demonstration centers at provincial universities. There are 2 provincial key laboratories, 4 provincial key laboratories (engineering centers and bases) and/kloc-0 provincial key research base of culture and art. There are 20 collaborative innovation centers 11,postdoctoral research mobile stations1and 2 academician workstations in the province. After years of construction and accumulation, the school has formed a discipline system with pedagogy, medicine and agronomy as the main subjects, and the coordinated development of arts, science, engineering, economics, law, management and art.
In the past five years, the school has undertaken more than 0/000 scientific research projects/kloc-0, such as national natural science foundation projects and social science foundation projects, and published more than 900 academic papers in core journals. The research on biomedicine and two-line hybrid rice reached the domestic advanced level, and the "ursolic acid standard sample" passed the national examination and became the first national standard sample of its kind in Jiangxi.
Adhering to the road of internationalization, the school has successively carried out cooperation and exchanges with universities and research and education institutions in more than ten countries, such as the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Russia, South Korea, Japan, India and Malaysia, and Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong and Macao, and promoted the implementation of exchange students, teacher training and other projects, thus building a broad platform for teachers and students to enjoy overseas quality educational resources.
Adhering to the motto of "Morality, Ability, Knowledge and Action", the school has practiced the school-running philosophy of "educating people with great love" and "cultivating applied talents for local grass roots", paid attention to the organic combination of the first classroom and the second classroom, established more than 100 student associations, and devoted itself to cultivating advanced applied talents with solid foundation, high quality and strong innovation ability. In recent years, teachers and students have actively participated in national and provincial competitions, and the number of winners has increased year by year; Students' participation in various social practice activities has achieved remarkable results.
With the continuous improvement of the level of running a school and the quality of education and teaching, the social reputation and social influence of the school are also constantly improving. At present, our school enrolls students from 26 provinces (cities, districts) all over the country, and the structure of students is becoming more and more reasonable, and the quality of students is gradually improving. Our school actively provides graduates with all-round employment and entrepreneurship guidance services, and the employment quality and postgraduate entrance examination rate of students are constantly improving. The initial employment rate of graduates has been in the forefront of similar colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province for many years, and has been successively rated as "the advanced collective of employment of graduates of ordinary colleges and universities in China", "the advanced unit of employment of graduates of ordinary colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province" and "the advanced unit of management of international students in China". 20 1 1 With the approval of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, our school was approved as a "national special needs project-a pilot unit for bachelor's degree-granting units to train master's degree graduates". In 20 15, our school was identified as one of the first batch of pilot universities for transformation and development in Jiangxi province.
At present, under the guidance of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", yichun university is making great efforts to build an "upgraded version" of its career development and is striding forward along the goal of building a high-level local application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.
(The above data are as of August 3 1, 20 16)