Jiangsu Polytechnic University (JPU) is situated in the beautiful city of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, famous for its rich resources and outstanding talents. Founded in 1978, JPU was originally named the Jiangsu Institute of Chemical Technology.

JPU now owns two campuses: Baiyun and Wujin with a combined area of more than 100 hectares and 11,000 full-time students. The University has ten departments. They are: Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Business Administration, Information Science, Foreign Language, Environmental & Safety Engineering, Material Science & Engineering, Law and Physical Education. Additionally, JPU possesses three colleges---Adult Education College, Helda College and College of Applied Technology. Helda is a self-sufficient and public-owned college. JPU provides five masters’ programs, 41 bachelors’ programs and five undergraduate programs. The programs cover six categories. They are arts, science, economics, engineering, management and law. The masters’ programs are Material Science & Engineering, Chemical Engineering & Technology, Environmental Engineering, Oil-gas Storage & Transportation Engineering and Chemical Engineering Processing Equipment. JPU recruits students from twenty-six cities, provinces and autonomous regions in China.

Fifty percent of the University’s full-time teachers hold senior professional titles. More than twenty teachers have been awarded the Government Special Subsidiary. Eight have been awarded the Province-wide Outstanding Experts with Contributions. More than ten have been entitled Excellent Teachers of the State (or Jiangsu Province). JPU is ranked in the top 20 for its research capability among 100 universities (colleges) in Jiangsu Province. According to the recent retrieving statistics collected by China Science & Technology Information Institute, the retrievals by SCI, EI, ISTP etc. from the research papers by the teachers of JPU have been listed amongst the top 150 from among 1,000 universities in China.

JPU has actively been developing exchanges and cooperation with universities home and abroad. It has built close links with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Francis Xiavier University, Canada, Heriot-Watt University, Scottland, ect. Culture and academic exchanges and joint research members, and studentsin recent years.

JPU now boasts its alumni of more than twenty thousand. In the future, JPU has acknowledged as an ideal academy to forester personnel and talents for the development of local economy and petrochemical industry.

JPU’s students all bear in mind the university’s spirit: Responsibility. The university has been entitled as the Model University by Jiangsu Province Government.