Founded in 1962, Changzhou College of Information Technology is located in a Higher Vocational Park of Changzhou City in the hinterland of China's most economically developed Yangtze River Delta. It a beautiful place in scenery and full of modern atmosphere. It integrates teaching, scientific research, training, vocational skills appraisal and social services.
CCIT covers an area of 1,042 mu, with a total construction area of 320,300 square meters. There are 12,315 full-time undergraduate students, 12,300 continuing education students, 248 international students, and 733 faculty members. CCIT has 7 secondary schools such as School of Intelligent Equipment, School of Electronic Engineering, School of Software and Big Data, School of Modern Service, School of Digital Creative, School of Continuing Education and School of Overseas Education together with 4 teaching departments such as School of Marxist, Department of Basic Teaching, Department of Public Foreign Language And Department of Sports.
CCIT is run on the concept of “relying on the information industry, cultivating information talents, serving the information society”. It has 40 majors, 8 national key specialties, 4 national training bases, 4 national quality courses, and 3 national quality resource sharing courses, 2 national quality online open courses, 1 national excellent teaching team, 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national production and education alliance, 1 modern apprenticeship pilot program of the Ministry of Education, 2 national-level teaching resource pools. It is a high-skilled personnel training demonstration base of the National Labor and Social Security Department, the Ministry of Industry and a national software and information service outsourcing talent training base.
CCIT has won verities of honorary titles, such as “Excellent School of Huang Yanpei Vocational Education Award”, “Charm Campus of National Higher Vocational College”, “Typical Experience College of National Graduate and Employment”, “Advanced Unit of National Higher Vocational College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education”, etc. Also, CCIT was selected as the Executive Director of the Software Industry Alliance of China, the Executive Secretariat of the China-South Africa Vocational Education Cooperation Alliance, the Vice Chairman of the National Higher Vocational College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance, the first batch of Construction Units for Vocational Quality Education Bases and the first batch of Experimental School of Professional College Digital Campus Construction.
