On October 15, the ARWU rankings were officially promulgated. The Rankings comprise 96 first-category disciplines, covering 118 universities that offer programs under the Discipline of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The top 5 universities in Jiangsu province are Nanjing University (coming out 5th in China), Nanjing Normal University(coming out 11th in China), Soochow University (coming out 38th in China), Yangzhou (coming out 42nd in China), and Southeast China University (coming out 59th in China). Jiangsu University just follows, coming out67thin China, in the top 30% together with Southeast China University.
Since its certification, the Principle of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the School of Foreign Languages has taken various measures to promote the discipline construction and made remarkable achievements by fixing as its objective the certification of a doctoral program under First-category Discipline of Foreign Languages and Literatures, measuring everything against the criteria, furthering its advantages and making up for the disadvantages.(School of Foreign Languages)