Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology (JIFT) is a full-time private undergraduate institute authorized by the Ministry of Education of China. It is a professional institute characterized by clothing education and oriented to the fashion industry, which focuses on cultivating high-level professionals in creative design, engineering technology, market promotion and management.
JIFT is located in the southern suburb of Nanchang city, Jiangxi Province. It has a vast campus with green trees and beautiful cultural landscapes. Nearly half a million square meters of school buildings, well-distributed and well-equipped. The European style buildings establishes a majestic atmosphere. The NiChang Palace, the Art Museum and the Chinese Costume Museum demonstrate a heavy cultural heritage.
JIFT now has seven academic schools for full time undergraduate education: School of Fashion Design, School of Fashion Engineering, School of Art Design, School of Fashion Media, School of Business, School of Humanities, School of Big Data, in addition, there are two teaching departments: School of Marxism and Military Sports Department. There are 25 majors for undergraduates, and 22 majors for junior colleges. It is also featured with a subject professional system of arts, engineering, management, economy and liberal arts. There are two national first-class specialties,two provincial first-class specialties, one provincial key disciplinary programs and four provincial specialties, two national first-class courses,thirty-four provincial high-quality courses,two provincial high-quality ideological and political courses, seven provincial online courses approved during the period of epidemic prevention, and two provincial excellent teaching teams, two provincial experimental zones of talent training mode innovation, two demonstration training bases, respectively sponsored by the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China and Jiangxi Provincial Department of Finance, four provincial curriculum education sharing project, one provincial virtual simulation experiment teaching project, one professional comprehensive reform project, and two excellent engineer training projects. During the period of 13th Five-Year Plan, JIFT was proudly awarded two first prizes and four second prizes of Jiangxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award.In 2018, Professor Guo Xiaoqiang won the National May 1 Labor Medal. In 2021, Chen Long was titled the“Top 10 Chinese Fashion Designers”; In 2020, the 30-year-old university encountered a historic breakthrough, when the two majors, fashion design and engineering, fashion and apparel design were authorized as national first-class undergraduate majorsby the National Ministry of Education.
Nearly 15,000 full-time undergraduate and junior college students are currently studying in JIFT. It has built a first-class teaching team composed of high profile faculties with noble ethics, reasonable structure, excellent quality and professionalism. Among them, 596 teachers have a master's degree or above, and 4 are provincial-level teachers. There are seven young and middle-aged elite teachers, one gold medal professor, and eight“Top Ten Fashion Pattern Makers”in China. JIFT has also invited a number of world famous experts and scholars in the industry from the United States, Japan, Ukraine, South Korea, France, Hong Kong Taiwan and other countries and regions as full-time and part-time teachers or visiting professors.
JIFT offers a scientific research platform at the provincial level which consists of seven Practical Teaching Centers covering 60,000 square meters, such as Creative Fashion Design Center, Fashion Engineering Technology Center, Art & Media Creative Center, etc. It has 238 Training Laboratories set up for clothing performance testing, 3D jewelry printing, intelligent clothing manufacture, VR virtual simulation, virtual studio, virtual simulation of cross-border trade. Furthermore, it also has an on-campus training simulation factory (Hong Yi Fang), as well as a fashion show hall with a large-scale professional catwalk. The Chinese Costume Museum, designed and constructed by the school independently, has an area of more than 4,500 square meters. It is a professional museum serving teachers and students in teaching, learning and research internally, and social science popularization externally.It also has more than 10,000 pieces of traditional costumes, ethnic costumes and classic works by contemporary famous designers. It has been awarded the Excellent Social Science Popularization Base of Jiangxi Province, the National Social Science Popularization and Education Base, and the National Characteristic Exhibition Project of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture.
In recent years,the institute has gained increasing recognition and reputations from all walks of life. It has been granted a number of honorary titles, such as“the Top Ten Colleges of Characteristic Specialties”,“Top Ten Employment Quality Demonstration Schools of China”,“Advanced Unit of Employment of Jiangxi Province”. For three consecutive years, it has been rated as the advanced unit of“standardized management year”,“innovation and development year”and“quality improvement year”of the provincial education system. The school has been rated as“China Textile Industry Talent Construction Demonstration College”by China Textile Industry Federation for many times. In 2020, it was awarded the“national demonstration school for national unity and progress”by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. From 2014 to 2019, the institute won the advanced unit of safe construction (Comprehensive Management) in the province for eight consecutive years. From 2015 to 2020, the institute won the“China Fashion Design Education Award”for six consecutive years.
