Since the admission of graduate students, the School of Pharmacy has always been adhering to the philosophy of People-oriented and humanity-based education in hoping that students excel in studies and serve for the public with inheritance and innovation. We have explored ways of educating talents through reforming the training mode, optimising the curriculum system, and focusing on the practice.

There are 124 graduate supervisors in the college, including 69 academic doctoral supervisors and 55 master supervisors (plus 5 part-time supervisors). We have built up a education innovation team led by the National Science Fundation Distinguished Young Scholars and the National Teaching Masters, and young and middle-aged graduate supervisors act as the backbone. Our professors work on the front line of postgraduate teaching all year round. Additionally, the School also regularly organises international academic seminarss and practical lectures on a wide range of topics, which are greatly appreciated by students for their distinctive themes, innovative contents and diverse forms.

The School has long been committed to the cooperation with pharmaceutical industry. We have established 13 province-level graduate workstations with industrial partners. Among them, one was awarded as the Provincial Excellent Graduate Workstation. There are 26 mentors in the workstations, 187 graduate students are studying there, and 8 industrial professors of Jiangsu Province are employed as well. Further, the School has set up many off-campus practice sites together with 43 companies and government agencies to better nurture professional graduate students. A total of 108 off-campus instructors have been appointed. And, we have signed agreements with 18 of them to establish off-campus practice bases.

Overseas exchanges, domestic and international academic conferences and other platforms have continuously stimulated the graduate students to think independently and to explore widely. In recent years, students have been sent to the University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, University of the Pacific and other internationally renowned universities to participate in academic exchange programmes. Again, a number of students have made oral presentations and poster presentations at international conferences, such as the Groundbreaking Biomaterials Meeting (US), the Tetrahedra Symposium (UK), and the BA/BE Conference (Korea).