Jiangxi University of science and Technology (abbreviated as "Jiang Li") was founded in 1958, formerly known as Jiangxi Institute of metallurgy. It was renamed Southern Institute of metallurgy in 1988 and Jiangxi University of science and technology in 2004. In 2013, it became a University jointly built by Jiangxi Provincial People's government, Ministry of industry and information technology and Ministry of education.Jiangxi University of science and technology has the right to confer doctorate, master's degree and bachelor's degree. It is a teaching and research-oriented university with the combination of science and engineering and the coordinated development of management, economics, law, literature, art, education and other disciplines. It is a Baosteel Education Award Evaluation University. It has the qualification of recommending excellent undergraduate students to study for master's degree without examination. It is also a leading university in China's non-ferrous metal industry and steel industry As an important talent training and scientific research base of iron industry, it is known as the "cradle of nonferrous metallurgy talents"; it is a first-class discipline construction University of Jiangxi Province in the construction project of advantageous and characteristic disciplines. It has been selected into the excellent engineer education and training plan (2011) and the basic ability construction project of universities in central and Western China (phase II). It has been successively rated as a national university with typical employment experience and a national innovation and entrepreneurship University by the Ministry of education Typical experience of colleges and universities.The school headquarters is located in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, a national historical and cultural city. As of May 2019, the school has five campuses in Ganzhou and Nanchang, covering an area of more than 3700 mu. At present, the university has 16 colleges, 18 scientific research institutes, 1 national model academician workstation, 1 post doctoral research mobile station, 1 post doctoral research workstation, 2 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 22 first-class discipline master programs, 11 professional degree programs, and 70 undergraduate programs. The school has more than 2000 staff (including 1390 full-time teachers and more than 600 doctoral teachers), 33000 full-time undergraduates and more than 3000 graduate students.