Yangzhou University

Yangzhou University (Chinese: 扬州大学, abbreviated 扬大) is a provincial public comprehensive university in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, created on 19 May 1992 by merging six institutions and a tax training centre.扬州大学（Yangzhou University，简称扬大）是江苏省扬州市的一所省属综合性公立大学，1992 年 5 月 19 日由六所学校与一个税务培训中心合并组建。

It was the first undergraduate institution in mainland China formed by merger, is co-built by Jiangsu Province with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and belongs to Class A of Jiangsu's peak plan for high-level universities.它是中国大陆最早采取合并办学的本科院校，由江苏省与教育部、农业农村部共建，并列入江苏高水平大学建设高峰计划 A 类。

About 34,700 undergraduates and 8,400 postgraduate students study across nine campuses, and the university is best known for agriculture, veterinary medicine, water conservancy and food and cuisine, with seven disciplines in the top 1 per cent of ESI citations.学校在九个校区培养约 34700 名本科生与 8400 名博硕士研究生，以农学、兽医、水利与食品烹饪见长，有 7 个学科进入 ESI 全球引用前 1%。

History

• On 19 May 1992 the State Education Commission approved the merger of Yangzhou Teachers College, Jiangsu Agricultural College, Yangzhou Institute of Technology, Yangzhou Medical College, Jiangsu Water Conservancy Engineering College and Jiangsu Commercial College into Yangzhou University.1992 年 5 月 19 日，国家教委批准扬州师范学院、江苏农学院、扬州工学院、扬州医学院、江苏水利工程专科学校与江苏商业专科学校合并组建扬州大学。
• The State Taxation Bureau's Yangzhou training centre joined the same merger, and the new university opened with seven colleges: teachers, agriculture, engineering, medicine, water conservancy, commerce and taxation.国家税务局扬州培训中心同时并入，新大学下设师范学院、农学院、工学院、医学院、水利学院、商业学院与税务学院七个学院。
• This made Yangzhou University the earliest undergraduate institution in mainland China to adopt a merger model, an approach later copied by dozens of Chinese universities in the late 1990s.这使扬州大学成为中国大陆最早采取合并办学模式的本科院校，1990 年代末全国数十所高校随后效仿。
• Two strands reach back further than 1992: the university's animal hospital was built in 1952 as the veterinary hospital of Subei Agricultural College, the ancestor of Jiangsu Agricultural College.有两条脉络早于 1992 年：学校动物医院建于 1952 年，前身为苏北农学院附属兽医院，而苏北农学院正是江苏农学院的前身。
• In 1994 the animal husbandry and veterinary department of the agricultural college was divided into separate animal science and animal medicine departments.1994 年，扬州大学农学院畜牧兽医系分设为动物科学系与动物医学系。
• In 1997 the university pooled the economics and construction programmes scattered across its six predecessor colleges into a college of economics and management and a college of civil engineering.1997 年，学校把分散在六所前身院校的经济类与建工类专业整合，成立经济管理学院与建筑工程学院。
• A sweeping reorganisation in 1998 created colleges of animal science and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, foreign languages, science, physical education, water conservancy and construction, and tourism and cuisine.1998 年的大规模院系调整组建了畜牧兽医学院、生物科学与技术学院、外国语学院、理学院、体育学院、水利与建筑工程学院以及旅游烹饪学院。
• The 1998 changes also merged the six predecessors' Marxism and social science units into a politics and law college, and their ethics teaching offices into a single department.这次调整还把六校的马列教研室与社科部合并为政法学院，并把各校德育教研室合并为德育教研室。
• In March 2000 the tax college left the university and became the State Taxation Administration's Yangzhou Tax Cadre Institute, ending the only direct link between the university and the national tax system.2000 年 3 月，税务学院脱离扬州大学，改名为国家税务总局扬州税务进修学院，学校与国家税务系统之间唯一的直接联系由此结束。
• In 2001 the art department of the teachers college merged with a 1990 architectural decoration programme from the water conservancy college to form the College of Arts.2001 年，师范学院艺术系与肇始于 1990 年江苏水利高等专科学校土木工程系的建筑装饰工程专业合并，成立艺术学院。
• In 2002 the science college split into mathematics, physics and chemistry colleges, and the engineering college split into mechanical engineering and information engineering.2002 年，理学院拆分为数学科学学院、物理科学与技术学院与化学化工学院，工学院分设为机械工程学院与信息工程学院。
• In August 2002 food science separated from the agricultural college, moved to the Yanfu Road campus and was paired with tourism and cuisine as a joint college.2002 年 8 月，农学院分出食品科学系成立食品科学与工程学院并迁至盐阜路校区，与旅游烹饪学院合并为旅游烹饪学院·食品科学与工程学院。
• In August 2003 the municipal and environmental engineering departments of the water and construction college became the College of Environmental Science and Engineering.2003 年 8 月，水利与建筑工程学院分出市政工程系与环境工程系，成立环境科学与工程学院。
• December 2003 brought another round: animal science and veterinary medicine were separated, education science was formed from the teachers college's research units, and architecture was split from water conservancy.2003 年 12 月又一轮调整：畜牧兽医学院分设为动物科学与技术学院与兽医学院，师范学院的教育科研单位组建教育科学与技术学院，水利与建筑工程学院分设为建筑科学与工程学院与水利科学与工程学院。
• In 2004 the politics and law college divided into a law school and a school of social development, and in 2006 horticulture and plant protection, journalism and communication, and a renamed education college were added.2004 年政法学院分设为法学院与社会发展学院；2006 年增设园艺与植物保护学院、新闻与传媒学院，教育科学与技术学院更名。
• The College of Overseas Education opened in 2007 with offices on the Hehuachi and Yangzijin campuses, and a separate Marxism college followed in April 2011.海外教育学院 2007 年成立，在荷花池校区与扬子津校区办公；2011 年 4 月又单独设立马克思主义学院。
• In June 2013 the water conservancy and energy colleges were merged, and in 2014 the art college was divided into fine arts and design and music, reversing the consolidation of the previous decade.2013 年 6 月水利科学与工程学院与能源与动力工程学院合并；2014 年艺术学院分设为美术与设计学院与音乐学院，与前十年的合并方向相反。
• In September 2015 Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education issued a joint opinion on building Yangzhou University, making it a provincial-ministry co-built institution.2015 年 9 月，江苏省人民政府与教育部联合印发共建扬州大学的意见，学校成为省部共建高校。
• In June 2016 the Yangzhou First People's Hospital was transferred to the university as its affiliated hospital, a nursing college was separated from the medical college, and a comparative medicine institute was created.2016 年 6 月，扬州市第一人民医院划归学校成为附属医院，医学院分出护理学系成立护理学院，并设立比较医学研究院。
• In 2019 water and energy were separated again, in 2021 a public health school was attached to nursing, and in 2022 horticulture and plant protection and the tourism and food college were each divided in two.2019 年水利与能源动力再度分设，2021 年公共卫生学院与护理学院合署，2022 年园艺与植物保护学院、旅游烹饪与食品科学学院各自一分为二。
• In August 2023 Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs signed an agreement to co-build the university, adding a second national ministry to its governing arrangement.2023 年 8 月，江苏省人民政府与农业农村部签署协议共建扬州大学，其共建体系中由此增加第二个国家部委。

Academics

• As of June 2025 the university has 32 schools, among them letters, social development, Marxism, law, education science, journalism, foreign languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry and physical education.截至 2025 年 6 月，学校设 32 个二级学院，包括文学院、社会发展学院、马克思主义学院、法学院、教育科学学院、新闻与传媒学院、外国语学院、数学科学学院、物理科学与技术学院、化学化工学院与体育学院。
• Its applied schools cover mechanical engineering, information engineering with artificial intelligence, architecture, water conservancy, electrical and energy power, and environmental science and engineering.其应用类学院包括机械工程学院、信息工程学院（人工智能学院）、建筑科学与工程学院、水利科学与工程学院、电气与能源动力工程学院与环境科学与工程学院。
• The agricultural block includes agriculture, plant protection, horticulture and landscape, animal science, veterinary medicine and biological science, the group for which the university is best known.农科板块包括农学院、植物保护学院、园艺园林学院、动物科学与技术学院、兽医学院与生物科学与技术学院，也是学校最负盛名的学科群。
• Medicine, nursing and public health, business, tourism and cuisine, food science, music, fine arts and design, and overseas education complete the 32 schools, and Guangling College operates as an independent college.医学部、医学院、护理学院（公共卫生学院）、商学院、旅游烹饪学院、食品科学与工程学院、音乐学院、美术与设计学院与海外教育学院构成其余院系，广陵学院则为独立学院。
• Its disciplines span 13 categories, from philosophy, economics, law and education to literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and interdisciplinary studies.学校学科覆盖哲学、经济学、法学、教育学、文学、历史学、理学、工学、农学、医学、管理学、艺术学与交叉学科共 13 个门类。
• It awards doctorates in 21 first-level disciplines, master's degrees in 50, professional degrees in 21 categories, and runs 20 postdoctoral stations.学校拥有一级学科博士学位授权点 21 个、一级学科硕士学位授权点 50 个、专业学位类别 21 个与博士后流动站 20 个。
• Two disciplines hold national key status and one is a national key discipline under cultivation, alongside seven provincial advantage disciplines and six provincial first-level key disciplines.学校有国家级重点学科 2 个、国家重点（培育）学科 1 个，另有省优势学科 7 个与省「十三五」一级学科重点学科 6 个。
• Seven disciplines, chemistry, plant and animal science, engineering, agricultural science, clinical medicine, materials science and computer science, are in the top 1 per cent of ESI global citations.化学、植物与动物科学、工程学、农业科学、临床医学、材料科学与计算机 7 个学科的 ESI 排名进入全球前 1%。
• The university employs more than 5,900 people, including 2,700 full-time teachers, 1,900 medical staff and 1,300 holders of senior professional titles, with 3,100 master's and doctoral supervisors.学校有教职员工 5900 多人，其中专任教师 2700 多人、医护人员 1900 多人、高级职称教师 1300 多人，博硕士生导师 3100 多人。
• Its faculty includes two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one foreign academician, six Thousand Talents recruits, four Ten Thousand Talents recruits and two Changjiang Scholars.师资中有中国工程院院士 2 人、外籍院士 1 人，国家「千人计划」入选者 6 人、「万人计划」入选者 4 人与「长江学者奖励计划」入选者 2 人。
• Four recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and two of the Excellent Young Scholars programme, plus one national Huang Danian-style teaching team, complete the research profile.学校还有国家杰出青年科学基金获得者 4 人、优秀青年科学基金获得者 2 人，以及首批全国高校黄大年式教师团队 1 个。
• Fourteen research institutes include the Grand Canal Research Institute, the Carbon Neutrality Technology Institute, the Rice Industry Engineering Technology Institute and the Smart Agriculture Institute.学校设 14 个科研机构，包括中国大运河研究院、碳中和技术研究院、水稻产业工程技术研究院与智慧农业研究院。
• The affiliated hospital, the Yangzhou First People's Hospital founded in 1960, is a tertiary A general hospital with two sites on 138.2 mu, 173,000 square metres of buildings and 2,009 staff.直属附属医院扬州大学附属医院（扬州市第一人民医院）创建于 1960 年，是三级甲等综合医院，设东西两个院区，占地 138.2 亩，建筑面积 17.3 万平方米，在职员工 2009 名。
• The hospital teaches 17 medical master's programmes and two doctoral programmes, and twelve further hospitals across Jiangsu are affiliated on a non-direct teaching basis.该院拥有医学硕士点 17 个、博士点 2 个；学校另有 12 所非直属附属医院分布在江苏各地。
• The animal hospital, rebuilt on its original site in 2012 at about 2,000 square metres, is the university's only affiliated animal hospital and the clinical base for veterinary students.动物医院 2012 年在原址重建，面积约 2000 平方米，是学校唯一的附属动物医院，也是兽医专业学生的临床基地。
• The university also runs an affiliated middle school, five kindergartens and an experimental farm of 350 mu that moved to Gaoyou between 2018 and 2019.学校另有附属中学、五所幼儿园，以及一处 350 亩的实验农牧场，该场于 2018 至 2019 年间迁往高邮。
• Its asset company manages 19 legal entities in biologics, bee products, dairy, feed, engineering design, printing, transport and hospitality, an unusually wide commercial arm for a provincial university.其资产经营有限公司管理 19 个法人企业，业务涉及生物制品、蜂产品、乳制品、饲料、工程设计、印刷、运输与宾馆接待，商业版图在省属高校中相当宽。

Campus

• Nine campuses make up the university, the main one at Hehuachi, 88 Daxue South Road, which is the university's legal domicile and was built after the 1992 merger.学校共有九个校区，主校区荷花池校区位于扬州市大学南路 88 号，是学校的法定住所，为 1992 年合并后新建。
• Hehuachi houses journalism and communication, medicine and nursing, placing the clinical and media schools in the city centre rather than on the suburban sites.荷花池校区设新闻与传媒学院、医学院与护理学院，把临床与传媒类学院放在市中心而非郊区。
• Shouxihu campus at 180 Siwangting Road was the home of Yangzhou Teachers College and now holds letters, social development, education, mathematics, physics and chemistry.瘦西湖校区位于四望亭路 180 号，是原扬州师范学院所在地，现设文学院、社会发展学院、教育科学学院、数学、物理与化学等学院。
• Wenhui Road campus at 48 Wenhui East Road was the Jiangsu Agricultural College site and now holds agriculture, horticulture and plant protection, animal science, veterinary medicine, biology and music.文汇路校区位于文汇东路 48 号，为原江苏农学院所在地，现设农学院、园艺与植物保护学院、动物科学与技术学院、兽医学院、生物科学与技术学院与音乐学院。
• Jiangyang Road North at 136 Jiangyang Middle Road was the Yangzhou Institute of Technology, and Jiangyang Road South at 131 was the Jiangsu Water Conservancy Engineering College.江阳路北校区位于江阳中路 136 号，为原扬州工学院所在地；江阳路南校区位于江阳中路 131 号，为原江苏水利工程专科学校所在地。
• Marxism, water conservancy and fine arts and design are spread across both Jiangyang Road campuses, which face each other across the road.马克思主义学院、水利科学与工程学院与美术与设计学院分设于江阳路南北两个校区，两校区隔路相望。
• Yangzijin campus at 196 Huayang West Road was built from 2008, with law, foreign languages, mechanical engineering, electrical and energy, environment, sport, tourism and cuisine and food science in its east zone.扬子津校区位于华扬西路 196 号，2008 年开建，东区设法学院、外国语学院、机械工程学院、电气与能源动力工程学院、环境科学与工程学院、体育学院、旅游烹饪学院与食品科学与工程学院。
• The west zone of Yangzijin holds information engineering with artificial intelligence, architecture and civil engineering, and business, clustering the newest applied schools together.扬子津西区设信息工程学院（人工智能学院）、建筑科学与工程学院与商学院，把最新的应用型学院集中在一起。
• Yangzijin South campus at 199 Hanjiang South Road covers more than 800 mu and is occupied by Guangling College, the independent college founded in 1998 and approved as such in 2005.扬子津南校区位于邗江南路 199 号，占地 800 余亩，为独立学院广陵学院所在地，该院 1998 年创办，2005 年经教育部批准设立为独立学院。
• Huaihai Road campus at 11 Huaihai Road was the Yangzhou Medical College site, split by the road into east and west halves, the east half transferred to the city in 2016 in exchange for the hospital.淮海路校区位于广陵区淮海路 11 号，为原扬州医学院所在地，被淮海路分为东西两个校园，2016 年东校园整体移交扬州市政府以换取医院划转。
• Gaoyou campus, planned on about 2,300 mu at Xiejia in the national agricultural science park, began in 2016, completed its ecological smart ranch in December 2018 and started a 533 million yuan second phase in January 2023.高邮校区规划占地约 2300 亩，位于扬州国家农业科技园区核心区卸甲镇，2016 年启动，生态智慧牧场 2018 年 12 月竣工，2023 年 1 月开工二期，投资 5.33 亿元。
• The Yanfu Road campus stopped being used in 2013, and the 238 mu Qingshan campus in Yizheng, a 1971 Jiangsu Agricultural College site, is being turned into a science and education park.盐阜路校区 2013 年停止使用；仪征青山校区占地约 238 亩，是 1971 年江苏农学院的校址，现计划改造为仪征科教园。

Reputation

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places Yangzhou University in the 201-300 band, its best result among the global tables.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把扬州大学列入第 201-300 名区间，这是它在全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 puts it in the 551-600 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 551-600 名区间。
• U.S. News ranks it 770th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 770 位。
• Yangzhou University does not appear in the QS World University Rankings 2027, so its international standing rests on the other three tables.扬州大学未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，其国际位次只能依据其余三项榜单。
• Its national position comes from the 2015 co-building agreement with the Ministry of Education, the 2023 agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Class A status in Jiangsu's peak plan.其国内地位来自 2015 年与教育部的共建协议、2023 年与农业农村部的共建协议，以及江苏高水平大学建设高峰计划 A 类身份。
• As the first merged university in mainland China, it became the template for the consolidation wave that reshaped Chinese higher education after 1998.作为中国大陆最早合并办学的高校，它成为 1998 年后重塑中国高等教育格局的合并潮的模板。
• Its two national key disciplines sit in agriculture and veterinary medicine, and its rice, swine and poultry research connects directly to Jiangsu's farming economy.其两个国家级重点学科位于农学与兽医领域，水稻、猪与家禽研究直接对接江苏的农业经济。
• ARWU's citation measures reward its agricultural, clinical and materials output, while THE's smaller weighting of those fields keeps it several hundred places lower.软科的引用指标有利于其农业、临床与材料类产出，而泰晤士对这些领域的权重较低，使其名次低数百位。
• Seven ESI top 1 per cent disciplines make it one of the broader research bases among Chinese provincial universities, despite the absence of a national key laboratory in engineering.7 个 ESI 前 1% 学科使它在中国省属高校中拥有较宽的研究基础，尽管其在工程领域没有国家重点实验室。

Student life

• With about 34,700 undergraduates and 8,400 postgraduates, Yangzhou has the largest student body of the five universities in this batch, and 11,000 more study through adult education.学校有约 34700 名本科生与 8400 名博硕士研究生，是本批五校中学生规模最大的一所，另有 11000 名成人教育学生。
• Because the nine campuses were inherited from six different colleges, students live in the part of Yangzhou that matches their discipline rather than in a single university quarter.九个校区继承自六所不同的院校，学生因此按学科分散居住在扬州城内不同片区，而非集中于单一大学城。
• The Yangzijin campus, built from 2008, was the first attempt to concentrate the applied schools on one new site, with distinct east and west zones.2008 年开建的扬子津校区是学校首次把应用型学院集中到一处新校址，并划分为东西两个片区。
• Guangling College students study at Yangzijin South, an 800 mu campus that gives the independent college a physical separation from the parent university.广陵学院学生在扬子津南校区学习，这座 800 余亩的校园使独立学院与母体学校在空间上分开。
• Clinical students rotate through the affiliated hospital in the city and twelve non-affiliated hospitals in Taizhou, Huai'an, Yancheng, Suzhou, Nantong and Yangzhou.临床专业学生在市区附属医院以及泰州、淮安、盐城、苏州、南通与扬州等地的 12 所非直属附属医院轮转。
• Veterinary students train at the animal hospital on Daxue North Road, a 1952 institution rebuilt in 2012 that treats pets and livestock for the public.兽医专业学生在地处大学北路的动物医院实习，该院源自 1952 年，2012 年重建，面向社会诊治宠物与畜禽。
• The Tourism and Cuisine College and the Chinese Cuisine Prosperity Base give Yangzhou a food-studies programme unusual among comprehensive universities, tied to the city's Huaiyang cuisine tradition.旅游烹饪学院与中餐繁荣基地使学校拥有综合性大学中少见的饮食学科，并与扬州淮扬菜传统相连。
• An affiliated middle school and five kindergartens mean that some local families are connected to the university from nursery to undergraduate study.附属中学与五所幼儿园意味着当地部分家庭从幼儿园到本科阶段都与这所大学相连。
• The Gaoyou agricultural demonstration park, with its smart ranch and crop and horticulture zones, hosts practical training for agriculture and animal science students outside the city.高邮农业科教示范园区设生态智慧牧场与作物、园艺示范区，是农学与动物科学学生在市外的实训基地。

Notable people

• Zhang Hongcheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a crop cultivation scientist whose rice work is central to the university's agricultural reputation.中国工程院院士张洪程是作物栽培学家，其水稻研究是学校农学声誉的核心。
• Liu Xiufan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in preventive veterinary medicine, built the university's animal infectious disease research.中国工程院院士刘秀梵从事预防兽医学研究，建立了学校的动物传染病研究体系。
• Bi Feiyu, a novelist and Lu Xun Literature Prize winner who now chairs the Jiangsu Writers Association, is the university's best-known literary graduate.小说家、鲁迅文学奖得主毕飞宇现任江苏省作家协会主席，是学校最知名的文学界校友。
• Ding Fan, former dean of the School of Literature at Nanjing University and a Zhu Ziqing Prose Prize winner, also studied at Yangzhou.南京大学文学院原院长、朱自清散文奖得主丁帆同样毕业于扬州大学。
• Chen Qi, a retired table tennis player, won the men's doubles gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics and is the university's only Olympic champion.退役乒乓球运动员陈玘是 2004 年雅典奥运会乒乓球男子双打冠军，也是学校唯一的奥运冠军。
• Huang Lixin, a graduate, has served as chair of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress since 2023.校友黄莉新自 2023 年起任上海市人大常委会主任。
• Cao Weixing, another graduate, was vice-governor of Jiangsu and later vice-minister of land and resources and of natural resources.另一位校友曹卫星曾任江苏省副省长，后任国土资源部与自然资源部副部长。
• Miao Ruilin, a former vice-governor of Jiangsu and mayor of Nanjing, was placed under investigation for disciplinary violations in November 2018.曾任江苏省副省长、南京市市长的校友缪瑞林于 2018 年 11 月因涉嫌严重违纪违法被查。
• Fei Gaoyun, a former vice-governor of Anhui and party secretary of Hefei, was likewise investigated in May 2026.曾任安徽省委常委、常务副省长与合肥市委书记的校友费高云同样于 2026 年 5 月被查。