Jingzhou University is a full-time general undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education. The school’s predecessor was the College of Engineering and Technology of Yangtze University founded in 2004. In May 2021, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Jingzhou University. The school adheres to the orientation of application-oriented education, adheres to the direction of coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering, liberal arts, management, science, teaching, art, medicine, etc., adheres to the development goal of a high-level application-oriented regional strong school with distinctive characteristics, and continuously promotes the "new engineering disciplines". "The "Four New" construction driven by" actively serves the national development strategy and Hubei Province's "one main leadership, two wings drive, and all-area collaboration" development layout, implements the discipline and major construction and development plan of Jingzhou University, and promotes the continuous improvement of school education and teaching quality.

The school currently has "eleven colleges, one department and three schools", including the School of Information Engineering, the School of Intelligent Manufacturing, the School of Urban Construction, the School of Energy, the School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, the School of Health, the School of Management, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Art and Education, Mathematics and Physics College, School of Marxism, Physical Education Department, Petroleum New Technology Research Institute, Information Technology Research Institute, Applied Chemistry Research Institute and other teaching and scientific research institutions. There are 38 undergraduate majors and 20 junior college majors. Among them, three majors, including Computer Science and Technology, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, and Business English, have been approved as first-class undergraduate major construction sites in universities in Hubei Province; the Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation major is a pilot project of "Professional Comprehensive Reform" for undergraduate universities in Hubei Province. , the undergraduate program of Hubei Provincial Colleges and Universities’ Strategic Emerging (Pillar) Industries Talent Training Plan; the chemical engineering and technology major is the undergraduate project of the Hubei Provincial Colleges and Universities’ Strategic Emerging (Pillar) Industries Talent Training Plan; the exploration technology and engineering major is the Hubei Province’s key Construction majors and key training majors, etc. It has established provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses in ideological and political theory and social practice courses, 2 provincial-level quality courses in advanced mathematics and digital electronic technology, and 19 school-level quality courses and ideological and political demonstration courses. The school has achieved fruitful results in talent training, and its graduate admission rate for postgraduate entrance examinations has ranked among the top among similar universities in the province for many years. The school encourages students to develop in an all-round way and cultivate distinctive innovative talents.