Jingjiang College of Jiangsu University is a full-time undergraduate institution jointly sponsored by Jiangsu University and Jiangsu University Education Development Foundation. Founded in 1999, it is one of the first batch of independent colleges approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and also a public welfare institution established with the approval of the Jiangsu Provincial Public Institution Registration and Administration Bureau. It has been rated as one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Independent Colleges" and "The Most Popular Independent College for Examinees" in the country. In the "2024 Comprehensive Strength Ranking of Independent Colleges in China", the college ranks 53rd. It is an application-oriented undergraduate institution aiming at cultivating leading and excellent application-oriented talents.

The college firmly establishes the school-running ideology of "relying on the parent university, based in Jiangsu, facing the whole country, serving the economy, starting from a high level, creating characteristics, and striving for the first class". It adheres to the motto of "erudition, understanding of principles, simplicity and sincerity, and professional excellence", and has cultivated an excellent academic atmosphere of "unity, diligence, seeking truth, and dedication". It adheres to fostering virtue through education, pursues excellence, and takes the path of cultivating excellent talents with the characteristics of "application-oriented, innovative, and international". The school currently has 7 secondary colleges (departments), with more than 40 majors and directions, covering 7 major disciplines such as science, engineering, literature, economics, management, medicine, and art. There are more than 12,600 students on campus, all of whom are at the four-year undergraduate level.

The college is located in the Shili Changshan Higher Education Park in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, a famous historical and cultural city known as "Urban Mountains and Forests" at the apex of the Yangtze River Delta. The campus covers an area of 850 mu, with various building areas totaling 287,500 square meters. It is a modern green and low-carbon campus with a beautiful environment, first-class facilities, digitization, intelligence, and ecologicalization. It has a 36,000-square-meter graphic and information center, a 48,000-square-meter laboratory, and 124 advanced multimedia classrooms with 11,658 seats, equipped with functions such as remote video conferencing, fully automatic recording and broadcasting, and screen projection interaction. The total value of teaching and research equipment in the college reaches more than 68 million yuan. The student apartments are equipped with complete facilities such as air conditioners and showers, providing students with a good learning and living environment.

The college has a strong teaching force. It has a team of young and middle-aged backbone teachers represented by experts with special government allowances from the State Council, outstanding talents in the new century of the Ministry of Education, training objects of the "Qing Lan Project" in Jiangsu universities, high-level talents of the "Six Talent Peaks" in Jiangsu Province, and training objects of the "333 Project High-Level Talent Training Project" in Jiangsu Province. The college actively encourages and supports teachers to explore teaching reforms, and the teaching quality has been steadily improved. In recent years, teachers in the college have achieved excellent results in teaching competitions such as the Yangtze River Delta Private University Teachers' Teaching Skills Competition, the Jiangsu Provincial University Young Teachers' Lecture Competition, and the Jiangsu Provincial University Micro-course Teaching Competition.

The college has achieved fruitful results in talent cultivation. In recent years, more than 600 students from Jingjiang College have achieved excellent results in national A-level, national B-level, and provincial-level and above discipline and professional competitions every year. In the 14th National College Students' Mathematical Competition in 2023, the total number of awards of the college ranked first among independent colleges in the country. The college pays attention to the cultivation of students' comprehensive abilities, promotes the diversified and personalized development of students, and students have performed outstandingly in volunteer services, social practice and other activities. Many students have won honorary titles such as "Self-Improvement Star of National College Students", "Excellent Volunteer of Jiangsu Province", "Excellent Communist Youth League Member of Jiangsu Province", and "Advanced Individual in the Summer 'Three Visits to the Countryside' Social Practice Activity of College and Technical Secondary School Students in Jiangsu Province".

The employment of students is widely welcomed by the society. The passing rate of postgraduate entrance examinations of graduates remains above 23%, and the passing rate of CET-4 is above 80%. Every year, excellent students from Jingjiang College enter domestic "985" and "Double First-Class" universities such as Southeast University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as foreign prestigious universities such as the University of Sydney and Johns Hopkins University for further studies. The college adheres to an open school-running policy and vigorously promotes the internationalization development strategy. Currently, the college has established long-term cooperation relationships with universities in more than ten countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. Through mutual selection of international exchange students, activities such as cultural exchanges, academic exchanges, credit recognition, academic qualification improvement, student employment, and teacher training are carried out to strive to cultivate application-oriented technical talents with international perspectives.

Facing the situation of the new round of high-quality development of higher education, the college adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, closely relies on the strong school-running resources of Jiangsu University, focuses on the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, follows the "14th Five-Year" Development Plan of the college, actively explores and practices new paths for the high-quality development of private higher education institutions, and strives to build the college into a high-level application-oriented undergraduate institution with engineering as the main focus and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as literature, management, economics, and medicine, so as to cultivate talents who are firm in their ideals and beliefs, brave in taking responsibilities, and willing to contribute for the development of the regional economy and society and the cause of socialist modernization.