School of Marxism and School of Public Administration were  established on March 2011, based on the School of Human Arts and Social  Science. Currently, the School of Marxism is in charge of the teaching  and scientific research of ideology education for all undergraduate and  graduate students, under which there are Department of Modern and  Contemporary Chinese History, Department of Mao Zedong Thoughts and  Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Department of Ideology and Moral  Cultivation and Law Foundation, and Research Center of Socialism with  Chinese Characteristics. School of Public Administration takes charge of  the cultivation of students majoring in Human Resources Management,  Public Affairs Management, Politics and Administration, and Tourism  Management, as well as the humanities education for all students in the  University. Under the School, there are the Department of Human  Resources Management, Department of Public Affairs Management,  Department of Politics, Department of Tourism Management, Research  Center of Human Resources Management, Research Center of Economic and  Social Development, Center of Public Arts Education, Center of Library  and Information, and Laboratory Center of Humanities Quality.
         The School has a faculty team with proper structure, vitality  and high-level teaching and scientific research abilities. There are 87  faculty members, among whom there are 11  professors, 35 associate  professors, 38 lecturers and 27 Ph. D holders. In recent five years,  they have published almost 500 academic papers, among which almost 100  papers are published in authoritative academic journals; published 20  academic books and textbooks; presided over 3 national-level social  science research projects and more than 40 province- and ministry-level  research projects, among which about 10 projects have received awards  from the municipality, government departments at the provincial level or  above; established or have been establishing 3 top-quality courses of  JUST.
         The School focuses on the academic guidance of the students and  the improvement of their comprehensive qualities. They have separately  won third-prize and second-prize in the 9th and 10th “The Challenge  Cup”, National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology  Competition, as well as the Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Thesis of  Jiangsu Province.