1. Soochow 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, one of the first universities selected in the "211 Project" and "2011 Plan" of the country, a university jointly built by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, and a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province, It has been selected into the National "111 Plan", the Education and Training Plan for Outstanding Legal Talents, the Education and Training Plan for Outstanding Engineers, the Education and Training Plan for Outstanding Doctors, the Public Postgraduate Program for National Construction of High level Universities, the National Innovative Experiment Plan for College Students, the National Innovative Talent Training Demonstration Base, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base for Overseas High level Talents, the New Engineering Research and Practice Project National demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and institutions receiving Chinese government scholarships for international students in China.
2. Soochow University, formerly Soochow University founded in 1900, is the first university in China to establish a modern university discipline system. Soochow University is the first university in China to carry out professional education in law (British and American law), the first to carry out graduate education and award master's degrees. It is also the first university in China to establish a journal. In 1952, the College of Arts and Sciences of Soochow University, the School of Culture and Education of South Jiangsu, and the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Jiangnan University were merged to form South Jiangsu Normal College, which was renamed Jiangsu Normal College in the same year. In 1982, the school was renamed Suzhou University. Later, Suzhou Sericulture College (1995), Suzhou Silk Engineering College (1997) and Suzhou Medical College (2000) were merged into Suzhou University.
3. As of April 2020, the school has four campuses: Tianci Village, Dushu Lake, Yangcheng Lake and Future, covering an area of 4586 mu and a building area of 1.59 million square meters; It has 30 colleges (departments); 13 disciplines entered the top 1% of ESI in the world; 5531 teaching staff; There are 27615 full-time undergraduate students, 13160 graduate students, 1859 doctoral students and 3271 international students.
