Suzhou Vocational University is a full-time general college sponsored by the Suzhou Municipal People's Government, approved by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and filed by the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was the Suzhou Industrial Technical College founded in 1911. Since its establishment in 1981, it has been adhering to the school motto of "Diligence, Courage, Loyalty, and Faith", and has won a good social reputation and has become a regional brand college. The school takes the establishment of "one goal positioning", grasping of "two basic footholds" and realization of "three comprehensive improvements" as the overall thinking, based on the achievement of students and the achievement of teachers, comprehensively improve the level of connotation and quality, and comprehensively enhance the vitality of innovation and development. Enhance the ability to serve the local area and make every effort to build an application-oriented local undergraduate college with distinctive characteristics of running a school based on Suzhou, facing Jiangsu, radiating across the country, focusing on engineering, multidisciplinary development, and coordinated development.
The school has four campuses, Shihu, Ganjiang Road, Tanshan and Lishe Nong, covering an area of 1,262 acres, with a school building area of 490,000 square meters, a collection of 1,491,100 paper books, and a total value of 243 million yuan in teaching and research equipment. . There are 12 colleges (departments), a total of 64 majors covering science and engineering, literature and history, art, teacher training, physical education, etc., and 12,973 regular full-time students. There are 776 full-time teachers, including 60 with full-time professional titles and 342 with senior professional titles or above. Teachers with senior professional titles account for 44.07% of full-time teachers, and teachers with master's degree or above account for 73.20% of full-time teachers; young and middle-aged with outstanding contributions from Jiangsu Province 1 expert, 3 provincial "six talent peaks" training target, provincial "333 high-level talent training project" training target 20 people, provincial "blue project" training target 32 people, 1 provincial teaching teacher, provincial level 1 excellent teaching team.
The school takes the training of high-quality technical skills and application-oriented talents as its own responsibility, focusing on the development of local industries and the demand for talents in short supply in the society, and deepening the teaching reform to build and build talent training characteristics. There are 3 key majors and teaching reform pilot majors of the Ministry of Education, 3 key majors of the provincial "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" colleges and universities, 9 provincial-level brand characteristic majors, and 1 category A project of the first phase of the provincial brand major construction project. 8 provincial excellent/excellent courses, 1 provincial excellent course group, 12 "Eleventh Five-Year" and "12th Five-Year" planning textbooks, 9 provincial high-quality textbooks, 7 provincial key textbooks, teacher-led Participated in the compilation of more than 300 textbooks of various types. The school has 282 comprehensive training bases integrating teaching, training and service, including 1 vocational education training base construction project of the Ministry of Education and 3 provincial-level training bases; and Shanghai Datang Mobile Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. , Siemens (China) Co., Ltd., Alibaba (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. and other famous enterprises have realized in-depth school-enterprise cooperation, and established 319 off-campus training bases.
The school is committed to breakthroughs in scientific research and innovation, adheres to the close integration of scientific and technological innovation and cultivation of innovative scientific and technological talents, and insists on the coordinated advancement of knowledge innovation, technological innovation and achievement transformation. There are 2 provincial-level engineering centers, 3 provincial-level research institutes (bases), 5 municipal-level key laboratories (platforms), and 25 school-level key laboratories (institutes). In the past five years, it has won 346 national, provincial, and municipal scientific research projects, including 18 national natural science fund projects and 24 provincial and ministerial projects undertaken or cooperatively undertaken; 101 provincial and municipal scientific research achievement awards, including provincial science and technology There is one second prize of the Progress Award, two third prizes of the Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award; 192 invention patents have been authorized, and the number of intellectual property rights has been among the top universities in the province for many years. The school provides decision-making consultations and undertakes subject research for local economic construction, government decision-making and enterprise development in many fields, and has made important contributions to the restoration and reconstruction of the ancient city wall of Suzhou, the protection of mountain pond culture, and the inheritance and innovation of embroidery.
The school focuses on international cooperation and exchanges, focusing on local industry development and talent needs, and actively introducing high-quality resources from abroad. It has successively cooperated with George Brown College in Canada, National University of Technology in New Zealand, Enlightenment College in Australia, Kangen College in Australia, and North Hesse in Germany. Foreign universities such as the Technical College, the University of Bolton in the United Kingdom, the Sardon School of Business in Singapore, and the Jincheng College in Japan have carried out effective cooperation in the areas of co-construction of majors, curriculum cooperation, teacher exchanges, student exchanges, and mutual recognition of credits. There are 10 long-term foreign teachers in the school, of which one won the National Friendship Award, and three won provincial and municipal honors.
The school has successively won the Jiangsu Province Civilized Unit, the first batch of Jiangsu Province Safe Campus Construction Demonstration Universities, Jiangsu Province Advanced Vocational Education Unit, Jiangsu Province Advanced University for Science and Technology, Jiangsu Province Model Faculty Home, Jiangsu Province Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates, Jiangsu Province Provincial Advanced Collective of University Archives, Suzhou Vocational Education Service Economic Transformation and Upgrading Advanced School, etc. It has been excellent in the evaluation of the talent training level of higher vocational colleges and is the first batch of high-skilled talent training demonstration bases and service outsourcing talent training and training bases in Suzhou.