Southeast University (SEU), located in Nanjing, the ancient capital city of six dynasties, is a prestigious institution of higher learning renowned both at home and abroad. As one of the national key universities directly subordinate to the Ministry of Education of China and jointly established with Jiangsu Province, it is also listed as one of the universities involved in National “985 Project” “211 Project”. In 2017, SEU was ranked on the list of constructing “Class A first-rate world universities”.  

SEU, as one of the time-honored institutions of higher learning in China with profound cultural heritage, its origin can be traced back to 1902 when it was founded as Sanjiang Normal College, then known as Liangjiang Normal College, Nanjing Higher Normal School, State Southeast University and State Central University, etc.. In 1952, national colleges and universities greatly adjusted their departments and disciplines by moving out the literature and science disciplines. Based on the College of Engineering of the original State Central University, relevant disciplines of Fudan University, Chiao Tung University, Zhejiang University and University of Nanking etc. were incorporated in succession to establish Nanjing Institute of Technology on the original site of State Central University. In May 1988, the university was renamed to Southeast University. In April 2000, a new Southeast University was established in combination with Nanjing Railway Medical College, Nanjing College of Communications and Nanjing Geological School. In the past 120-year school management, SEU, in the spirit of patriotism and concerning people all over the world, has been always making unyielding efforts in pursuit of prominence to achieve scientific progress and national rejuvenation. With time goes by, the school has gradually shaped its outstanding school spirit of “rigor, truthfulness, unity and diligence”, the school management philosophy of “being renowned for science and serving the country with talents”, and the school motto of “striving for perfection”.

Currently, SEU has set up 34 departments with 83 bachelor’s degree programs, 34 first-leveldisciplines authorized to confer PhD Degree and 48 first-level disciplines authorized to confer Master’s Degree. Among the full-time 36,277 students, there are 16,200 undergraduate students and 20,077 graduate students including 1,966 overseas students, among which, 1,523 study for different academic degrees. Right now, SEU has three campuses, respectively, Sipailou Campus, Jiulonghu Campus and Dingjiaqiao Campus, covering an area of 5888mu (1mu = 666.7 m2) in total, among which, Jiulonghu Campus covers an area of 3,752.35mu with the total building area of 789,700m2. The school’s library covers an area of 66,900m2, compromising 4.4 million volume of books of all sorts. In addition, the school has also set up Wuxi Branch and Suzhou Campus.  

SEU is a comprehensive research-oriented university featuring engineering discipline while covering many other disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management and art, etc.. Among others, 11 disciplines have been listed as national “double first-class” construction disciplines and 5 disciplines obtain A+ in the fourth round of disciplinary assessment, both ranked at No. 8 at the national level; 12 disciplines are ranked among top 1% of ESI internationally, in which, the engineering discipline is listed at No. 20 with computer science at No. 16. Both disciplines are ranked among top 1‰ of ESI internationally. Meanwhile, the school highlights 3 national key laboratories, 4 national engineering research centers, 2 national engineering technology research centers, 1 national professional laboratory, 11 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 7 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 33 postdoctoral research centers, 1 national-level think tank of liberal arts and 2 key high-end think tanks of Jiangsu Province.

SEU features high-level faculty comprising 2,991 full-time teachers, including 2,569 teachers with PhD degree, 2,021 teachers with senior andsub-senior titles, 1,071 doctoral student supervisors and 2,166 graduate student supervisors. In addition, there’re also 12 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 academician of the Academy of Europe, 13 members of the 7th Disciplinary Appraisal Panels of the State Council Academic Committee, 37 experts involved in the national “Ten Thousands Talents Program”, 6 winners of the national awards for renowned teachers, 5 renowned teachers involved in the “Ten Thousands Talents Program”, 50 persons granted with funds from the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation, 25 national-level candidates for “Millions of Talents Program” initiated by the Ministry of Personnel and 2 persons titled as “National Top 10 Youth Jurisconsults”. SEU is right now intensifying its strategy of building a powerful school by talents and endeavoring to promote the “high-end faculty multiplication plan” so as to accelerate its progress of constructing a top-ranking faculty team.