Jinggangshan University dates back to 1958. The campus covers an area of 170 hectares, among which the building area is about 600,000m². With 0.956 million books in the library, JGSU is a complicated public university including fifteen colleges: Politics and Law, Liberal Arts, Foreign Study, Business, Maths and Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Fine Arts, Physical Education, Medicine, Nursing, Information and Media Technology, Biology, Pedagogy, and Adult Education. There are also 18 teaching experimental centers here.

The fifteen colleges include 37 majors on 9 fields---arts, science, pedagogy, administration, economics, history, engineering, medicine, and law. The majors include: English, Business English, Japanese, International Economy and Trade, Law, Chinese Literature, International Chinese Teaching, Broadcasting and Journalism, Music, Fine Arts, Artistic Designing, History, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Applying Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, Applying Psychology, Mechanics and Automatization, Computer Science and Technology, Biomedicine, Nursing, Information Management and System, Marketing, Financial Administration, Tourism, etc. There are 17,000 full-time students from 30 provinces, districts, and municipalities of China.

The number of current professional teachers in our college is 831, of which more than 250 are professors, associate-professors, and 257 are PHDs and masters. 26 teachers are engaged as honor tutors of master degree in Qinghua University, Shandong University, Southwest Normal University etc., 25 celebrated scholars such as Wang Zhiquen etc.are engaged as part-time professors or guest professors in recent years.