Jingdezhen Ceramic University

The school now has three campuses: Xinchang, Tao Research Institute and Xianghu, covering more than 1,600 mu. The school has 10 teaching colleges (departments), namely the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the School of Ceramic Art, the School of Design Art, the School of Art and Cultural Relics, the School of Mechatronic Engineering, the School of Management and Economics, the School of Information Engineering, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Marxism, and the Department of Physical Education and Military Education. As well as the Graduate School, the International College, the Entrepreneurship College, the Continuing Education College and one independent college - the College of Science and Technology Arts. There are more than 19,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students (including the independent college), including 40 doctoral students, 1,035 master's students and nearly 100 international students, forming a complete talent cultivation system from undergraduate to master's to doctoral. There are 802 full-time teachers, including 450 with senior professional titles and 202 with doctoral degrees. There are more than 50 high-level talents such as members of the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council (Design) Discipline Evaluation Group, recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, national-level candidates of the "New Century Hundred Thousand Thousand Talents Project", and experts enjoying special government allowances of The State Council, as well as 26 national-level art masters of all kinds. There are nearly 200 provincial-level expert talents.

The university offers 48 undergraduate programs, 2 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 13 first-level discipline master's programs (51 second-level discipline master's programs), and 5 professional master's programs, covering 10 disciplines including engineering, art, management, literature, science, and history. In terms of discipline and major Settings, the school emphasizes the equal importance of art and engineering and the integration of art, business and industry, highlighting the advantages of "design art and ceramic engineering", and has five provincial key disciplines (including two provincial high-level disciplines), forming three advantageous and characteristic discipline clusters of "art design and ceramic culture, ceramic materials engineering and mechanical and electrical, ceramic economics and management", Carefully cultivate high-level specialized talents covering the entire industrial chain from ceramic materials, product design to management. In the third round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, the school ranked 6th in design, 9th in fine arts, and 16th in materials science and engineering, with significant disciplinary characteristics and advantages. In 2016, "Design Studies" became one of the first leading disciplines of the Jiangxi Province University Discipline Alliance. The art discipline category of the school 's existing undergraduate programs is included in the early batch admission, and two characteristic programs, inorganic non-metallic materials engineering and mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, are included in the first batch admission.

The university, with a long history, deep industry background and distinct disciplinary characteristics, has been one of the most distinctive universities in the country (the only one in Jiangxi) to participate in the "21st Century China University Exhibition" organized by the Ministry of Education in Russia and has presented state gifts on behalf of the Chinese government to foreign dignitaries on many occasions, enjoying a high reputation internationally. The university began accepting international students in 1958. Over the past 60 years, it has trained more than 3,000 students from over 20 countries across all continents. It has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 30 universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, South Korea, and the International Ceramic Association, and has exchanged teachers for lectures, students for study visits, and jointly trained artistic talents. The JCI-WVU International Ceramic Artist Studio project was listed as "a model and a new upsurge of people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States" in the 200 Years of China-Us relations published by the US Department of State. We have launched a 3+1+2 cooperative education program with our partner institutions, Wonkwang University and Dankook University in South Korea, and established an "overpass" for joint undergraduate, master's and doctoral education. In 2016, the first overseas ceramic culture research center, the Korea - Jingdezhen Ceramic University International Ceramic Culture Exchange Center, was established.

In recent years, the university has seized the development trend of world ceramic art and relied on the rich ceramic cultural heritage of Jingdezhen to host more than 10 international ceramic engineering, art, culture and education symposiums. Especially in the past two years, the university has actively integrated into the "Belt and Road" strategy, The successful hosting of the "Maritime Silk Road - Ceramic Road", "Imperial Kilns and Ceramic Art" International Academic Symposium on Jingdezhen Ceramics and the Belt and Road Strategy, China (Jingdezhen) High-tech Ceramics International Forum and the 9th Asian Ceramic Materials Symposium, the 3rd China Central Design Art International Symposium and ISCAEE International Education Exchange Society Series of activities are of great significance More than 200 overseas experts participated in the academic exchange activities with international influence, which strongly promoted the international development of ceramic science and technology and culture and art. On behalf of the country, the school has held exhibitions of ceramic art works by teachers and students at important venues such as the headquarters of UNESCO, the Louvre in France, the University of Cambridge in the UK, the Asian Museum in Greece, and the Grand Palais in France, fully demonstrating the outstanding achievements of the school in ceramic art education and creation, and greatly promoting Chinese ceramic culture and art to the world.