Gold Mantis School of Architecture, Soochow University located on the beautiful Dushu lake, adhering to ‘the connotation of Jiangnan Classical Gardens and the artisan spirit of Suzhou Xiangshan’, Shouldering the historical mission of continuing the origin of modern architecture education in China.

Gold Mantis School of Architecture, which is originally founded in May of 2005 as School of Urban Science. By the end of 2007, new reforms in post-secondary education encouraged school/ enterprise cooperation and the “Gold Mantis School of Architecture” (still the public school) was established through the joint efforts of Soochow University and Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration Co. Ltd. The School became a successful example for the innovations in reform and administration in China’s post-secondary education. The name of the school is autographed by academician of both the academy of sciences and academy of engineering of China—Wu Liangyong.

Today, the School offers four undergraduate programs in Architecture, Urban planning, Landscape architecture, and Historic preservation. Graduate programs include Landscape Architecture, Architecture. Our school also has Design and Theory of Architecture and Environment in the doctoral program.

The school now has about 728 undergraduate students, 200 graduate students and 89 faculty. Among 89 faculty, there are 70 teachers, 53 of them have a PhD degree or in a PhD program, which is 75.7% of the total number; 39 teachers have the working abroad or studying abroad experiences, which is 55.7% of the total number; 45 teachers have senior professional titles, which is 64.3% of the total number.

The development orientation and goal of the school is based on engineering, dominated by architecture and characterized by design, build product originality, through the development path of differentiation and the integration mode of ‘industry, education, research and utilization’, it will develop into an international and professional first-class design school.