About Us

Jiangsu Urban and Rural Construction Vocational College is a full-time institution of higher education belonging to Housing and Urban-rural Development Department of Jiangsu Province. Located in the Yincun Vocational Education Park in Changzhou City, it has the most comprehensive majors of urban and rural construction in Jiangsu Province. The campus covers an area of 813 mu(≈134 acre) with the building area of nearly 290,000 square meters.

History

1986 School was established as Urban Construction School of Jiangsu Province.

2003 It changed its name to “Jiangsu Changzhou Higher Vocational School of Construction” with an additional name of “Jiangsu Joint Vocational College Changzhou Branch”.

2013 Approved by the Education Department of Jiangsu Province, the school merged with the Changzhou Staff and Workers University and began its attempt to become “Jiangsu Urban and Rural Construction Vocational College”.

2015 It was successfully upgraded to be a general institute of higher education and formally renamed to “Jiangsu Urban and Rural Construction Vocational College”.

Schools & Departments

The College currently consists of School of Architectural Art, School of Civil Engineering, School of Management Engineering, School of Public Utilities, School of Equipment Engineering, School of Continuing Education, Department of Basic Course , Department of Ideological and Political Education, and Department of Sports, and offers 37 three-year majors and 17 five-year majors for students. There are more than 9,000 full-time students, and more than 500 full-time and part-time teachers.

Mission & Vision

The school takes "Mingzhi, Duxing" as the motto which means clear aspiration and sincere behaviour, and adheres to philosophy of “pursue virtue and ability, unite knowledge and action, achieve all-round development”. Consistently rooted in morality education, its mission is to facilitate development with the focus on employment promotion. Persisting in school-enterprise cooperation and work-study combination, the school has trained nearly 30,000 highly skilled talents for the development of urban and rural construction since the school started. The employment rate of students has been stable at over 98%.

Green Campus

The campus is fully covered with green architectural complex which has traditional construction style of the southern Yangtze River with white walls and black tiles. It’s also a smart campus of "integration of theory and practice, functional integration and information sharing" with exemplary, vocational and contemporary characteristics. All the buildings of the college have been awarded the National Green Building Design Label, which enables the campus to be the first “Green Building and Building Energy Efficiency Demonstration Zone” in the name of school in Jiangsu Province.In 2015, it won the only first prize of “Jiangsu Green Building Innovation Award”.

Honors

The school has been awarded with several honors such as the National Advanced Vocational School in vocational guidance work, National Advanced Unit of Vocational Education, Jiangsu Advanced School in Moral Education, Cradle of Highly Skilled Talents of Building Industry in Jiangsu Province and Science Education Base in Jiangsu Province. It is a “Skilled and Urgently-needed Talent Training Program School of the Building Industry” determined by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.