Suzhou Gaobo Software Technology Vocational College was established in March 2007 by Wuzhong Group and Gaobo Education Management (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. Full-time institutions of higher learning approved by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and filed by the Ministry of Education. The school covers an area of nearly 500 mu, and all kinds of buildings cover more than 170,000 square meters. There are information and software institute, electromechanical engineering institute, art and architecture institute, international business institute, city public service institute, international institute, basic department, continuing education institute, etc. 43 applied majors which are close to the needs of regional economic development are offered. At present, there are nearly 6000 students in the school.

Close to Shanghai's Core Location

Suzhou, known as "paradise on earth", is close to Shanghai with convenient transportation, developed economy and beautiful environment. The school is located in the "real mountains and real waters" high-tech zone, adjacent to the administrative center of Suzhou High-tech Zone, east of Suzhou Dayangshan National Forest Park, adjacent to the original ecological Taihu Wetland Park and the first mountain dome in Suzhou. In recent years, high-tech zones have implemented transformation and upgrading in an all-round way, vigorously developing new generation of information technology, intelligent manufacturing, medical equipment, modern service industry and cultural and creative industries, such as big data, cloud computing, etc. Innovation carriers have gathered rapidly, surrounding courtyards have gathered, and high-tech enterprises have abundant resources, which has created unique regional advantages for school development and students'entrepreneurship and employment.

Master Teachers Gather Talents to Strengthen Colleges

The school has an excellent teaching staff and a leading team of disciplines and specialties. It employs a group of experts, professors and scholars from famous universities such as Nanjing University of Technology, Suzhou University and Nanjing Forestry University to serve as teaching, scientific research and management. A high-level team of teachers with professional and part-time skills, profound knowledge and rich teaching experience has been established.

There are nearly 300 teachers in the school, including 64 teachers with associate senior and above titles, and nearly 80% teachers with postgraduate or master's degrees.

Grasp the Connotation and Improve the Quality

With the motto of "Honesty, Knowledge, Caution and Broadness", the school adheres to the principle of cultivating morality, cultivating people, students and teaching. It makes every effort to promote the reform of credit system, tutorial system and project system with higher vocational characteristics, and attaches great importance to the cultivation of students'practical ability. Through carrying out and participating in various skills competition activities, students'hands-on operation ability can be trained and their employment competitiveness can be improved.

In the past two years, the school has been approved one project of high-level backbone specialty construction in Jiangsu Province (software technology specialty), one platform of deep integration of production and education in Jiangsu Province (Jiangsu Mobile Internet technology production and education deep integration training platform), one second-class award of Jiangsu Teaching Achievement Award, one first-class award of Suzhou Teaching Achievement Award, and three excellent new courses in Suzhou City (mobile Internet technology and practice, mobile Internet technology, mobile Internet technology and education deep integration training platform). Smart phone software testing technology, big data technology and application. School teachers have won more than 20 prizes in all kinds of competitions at the national, provincial and municipal levels, and guided students to participate in more than 50 prizes in all kinds of skills competitions. Educational and teaching work has made gratifying achievements.

Optimizing Professional Employment

According to the market demand, the school timely adjusts and optimizes the professional settings, adheres to the choice of the best choice, and focuses on promoting five disciplines: information technology, artificial intelligence manufacturing, design art, international trade and urban public services, so as to create a professional cluster with social needs, students'favor and parents' satisfaction.

Schools adhere to employment-oriented, school-enterprise integration, and promote high-quality employment of students. With more than 100 enterprises such as Microsoft, Accenture, China Telecom, China Mobile, Golden Mantis, Dongshan State Guest House and so on, we have built practical training bases and set up orientation classes or titled classes, which have created many forms of school-enterprise cooperation training modes, such as "integration of production and teaching", "alternation of work and learning", "order training" and "post practice", and realized the seamless matching of school training and enterprise demand. Answer. Wuzhong Group, as a new force of regional economy, not only provides a strong financial basis for the development of schools, but also provides a comprehensive school-enterprise cooperation resources to promote school teaching reform, the construction of teachers, students'practical training and employment. The employment rate of graduates is above 98%. The year-end employment rate of 2017 graduates is 98.12%. The employer satisfaction rate is 91.9%. It is higher than the average level of Jiangsu Province and the whole country.

Schools actively provide students with a broad access to further education and build future development overpasses. Organizing students to participate in the study of "special copy", "special copy" and "special upgrade" is "the base of high-quality students of Suzhou University" and "the base of high-quality students of Nanjing University of Technology". To build a platform for Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, we have successively cooperated with British Staffordshire University, French Business Union, Malaysian Elite University, University of West India, University of Florence and other institutions of higher learning to carry out Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools at various levels, implement inter-school credit recognition, provide a convenient way for students to study abroad, and are the pilot of comprehensive reform in education of "expanding the scale of overseas students" in China. Project colleges and target schools for studying abroad in Jiangsu Province are also advanced units for international cooperation and exchange of education in Jiangsu Province.

Focus on the Present and Head for the Future

Since its establishment, the school has adhered to the idea of Building Morality and cultivating people, and adhered to the purpose of serving local economic and social development. Its achievements have been affirmed and appreciated by leaders at all levels of the Party and government and all walks of life. He has been awarded "Jiangsu Civilized Dormitory", "Jiangsu Civilized Canteen", "Jiangsu Price Honesty Unit", "Jiangsu Ping'an Campus", "Jiangsu International Education Exchange Advanced School" and "Suzhou Advanced Vocational Education Unit". Xinhua Daily, China Education Daily, Yangtze Evening News, Gusu Evening News, Suzhou Daily, Jiangsu TV Station, Suzhou TV Station and other authoritative media have reported many times. In December 2015, the school successfully passed the evaluation of talent cultivation in Higher Vocational Colleges with excellent results, and entered a new stage of reform and development.

Facing the thirteenth five-year plan, all Gaobo people are striving to build schools into disciplines with distinctive features and regions relying on the strong economic strength and superior human and regional conditions in the Yangtze River Delta region, with a high attitude, an open mind and a global vision, in a timely manner, taking advantage of local conditions and seeking for people, persisting in the four strategies of strengthening schools with talents, quality, characteristics and internationalization. It has become an important base for the training of high-level applied skills talents in the region, serves the development of regional economy, society and culture, and enters the top ten universities of the same kind in the country.