Jiangsu Shipping College (hereinafter referred to as college) is a full-time college of higher learning approved by the Government of Jiangsu Province. Founded in 1960, the college is attached to the Transportation Department of Jiangsu Province. College is located in Nantong, a livable garden city in the Yangtze River delta area. Nantong, situated in the north wing of Sutong Bridge, is well-known as Sports Town, Education Town, Architecture Town and Longevity Town. College is qualified for the national high-quality higher vocational colleges, the first batch of national key vocational colleges, nationwide model colleges of transportation vocational education, the first model colleges in Jiangsu Province, the construction unit of higher vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province, the national top 50 colleges with typical experience of graduates’ employment, the national top 50 vocational colleges of services contribution, the top 50 higher vocational colleges with international influence, the national top 50 higher vocational colleges with teaching resources, the top 50 higher vocational colleges with competitiveness in China,the national top 50 colleges with the comprehensive satisfaction of higher vocational students,and the top higher vocational colleges with great influence in Asia-Pacific vocational colleges.
Adhering to the orientation of serve local based on transportation and facing the Nation and going to the world, the college sets up majors closely focusing on the national development strategies such as the integration of transportation, ocean, shipping and Yangtza River Delta. It has formed a professional layout with the majors of water transportation as the main body, the majors of road and aviation transportation as the supporting. At present, it owns four key construction majors in national backbone Vocational College, nine national key specialties, three nationwide transportation demonstration specialty locations and two key specialties supported by central finance to improve the development ability of professional service industry. And it has already become one of the unique in the National Higher Vocational Colleges.
Jiangsu Shipping College covers an area of nearly 1000 mu, with a building area of more than 360000 square meters.There are 6 national vocational education training bases, 14 provincial vocational education training bases and 3 Nantong key laboratories. The college has 13 provincial and municipal science & technology service institutions, such as Jiangsu Ship Engineering Technology Research & Development Center. There are more than 40 campus training bases and more than 200 off campus internship and employment bases. 3 production teaching practice ships named Ocean Boat, Changyang Gate and Changchun Gate are built in cooperation with enterprises.
The college has nearly 10000 students in full-time education and more than 2000 students in adult education.There are 7 schools with 40 majors, including Navigation ,Marine Engineering,Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,Transportation Management and Economics,Transportation Engineering,Intelligent Manufacturing and Information Technology,Arts and Humanities. In addition, there are two public teaching units including School of Marxism and Department of Liberal Studies.The college has established an Education Quality Management System in accordance with ISO9001:2015 quality standard. Moreover, the training quality management system has passed the certification audit of det Norske Veritas.
The college now has 421 full-time teachers, 40 of whom are senior professional titles,accounting for 50% of the teaching staff. The proportion of people with master's degree or above is 75%, and the proportion of double-qualified teachers is 92.3%. The College also boasts of a large number of high-level vocational education talents, including 3 state council special allowance winners, 5 national academic leaders of vocational education, 3national teaching masters award winners,3 provincial teaching masters award winners, 1craftsman in Jiangsu Province , 15 teaching masters in the transportation systems of Jiangsu province, 10 teaching masters in universities of Nantong, Jiangsu province, 12 high-level talents selected for 333 high-level personnel training project, 9 middle-aged and young academic leaders for the blue project in universities , and more than 30 outstanding faculty members ranking among “100 talents project”candidates in transportation system ofThere are 6 excellent teaching teams and 6 scientific and technological innovation teams at the provincial level. The professional teachers have actively participated in major national projects . One teacher participated in the escort mission in the gulf of Aden, four teachers participated in the national arctic and Antarctic research, and two teachers participated in the reclamation of islands and reefs in the south China sea.
Our college has made outstanding achievements in educational reform. It has made teaching standards for the following majors: marine engineering, ship mechanic engineering, water transportation and maritime management, port mechanic and automatic, port and waterway engineering.
It has five national quality courses, quality resource sharing courses, quality online open courses. It also has 31 courses including provincial quality courses and online open courses and English teaching quality courses.
In 2014 and 2018, the college won the first prize of national teaching achievement for two consecutive times, and it is the only school who won double crown of national transportation vocational colleges.
The college has national vocational skills appraisal institute, national vocational skills appraisal station of the Ministry of transport, Nantong training base of Education Management Information Center of the Ministry of education, Nantong training base of China Maritime Service Center, Jiangsu channel skilled personnel education and training base, Jiangsu seafarer training center, Nantong distance learning of Network College of Shanghai Jiaotong University Learning Center and other training institutions (bases). The annual short-term vocational training scale is more than 20000 person times.
The college enjoys a high reputation in domestic higher vocational colleges and has a high academic status.It is the chairman unit of the National Navigation Vocational Education Group, the chairman unit of the Vocational Education Branch of the China Institute of Communications Education, the executive vice chairman unit of the Jiangsu Navigation Institute, and chairman unit of the Zhenghe Research Association of Jiangsu Province.
The College emphasizes academic international exchange and cooperation, actively carrying out Sino-foreign education cooperative projects and exploring the road to innovation in education internationalization. The College is a member of Global Maritime Education and Training Institution (GMET), and recruits international students in four majors. It has establishedtheCross-borderschool-enterprisecommunity “Sino-Singapore (Nantong) International Maritime Training Institute” with international cooperation partners, and also established the overseas “Luban Workshop” in Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries. The college also has established good inter-school cooperation and exchange relationships with more than 30 universities in more than 20 countries and regions, such as the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Australia.
The college implements the industrial-academic-integration talents cultivation mode characterized by Two-way & Four-Segment, Three-layer & Six-Segment, Factory-college Integration, Virtual & Real Alternation and Modern Apprenticeship. It makes efforts to strengthen college-enterprise cooperation and industry-teaching integration so as to cultivate high-quality technological & technical talents and serve the local social and economic development. With its ninety-eight percent employment rate, high-quality employment and high employment parity rate, the college has been rated as Advanced Collective in College Graduates Employment in Jiangsu Province as well as National Top 50 Colleges and Universities with Typical Experiences in Graduate Employment.
In recent years, the college has won over one-hundred national, provincial and municipal honorary titles. These titles run as follows: National Advanced Vocational Education Unit, National Advanced Group of Transport Systems, China’s Industrial, Academic and Research Cooperation Promotion Award, Advanced Unit for the Construction of College Teachers’ Team in Jiangsu Province, Advanced College in Teaching in Jiangsu Province, Advanced College in Science and Technology in Jiangsu Province, Advanced Unit for Student Financial Assistance Work in Jiangsu Province, Advanced Group of College Logistics Work in Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Provincial Education International Cooperation and Exchange Advanced College, Jiangsu Provincial Advanced Unit for Vocational Skills Assessment Work, Jiangsu Provincial Civilization Unit, Jiangsu College Harmonious Campus as well as Jiangsu Provincial Moral Education Advanced College.
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