The history of soochow University Physical Education College can be traced back to the physical education Department of Soochow University in 1924, the Physical education Department of Jiangsu Normal University in 1952 and the Physical education Department of Soochow University in 1982. Founded in 1997, the Institute of Physical Education has a history of more than 90 years. With the joint efforts of several generations of sports people, Soochow University Sports College has become a leading sports college in China with a certain international popularity. The college has five undergraduate majors, namely physical education, martial arts and traditional national Sports, sports training, sports human science and sports rehabilitation. The university has a post-doctoral research station in physical education, a doctoral program in first-level discipline in physical education, a master's program in first-level discipline in physical education and a professional master's program in physical education.

The College has the Key Research base of Sports Social Science of The General Administration of Sport, the Key Laboratory of Function Assessment and Physical Fitness Training of the General Administration of Sport, the Sports Industry Research Base of the General Administration of Sport and other research platforms. National first-class major, national quality resource-sharing course, national online open course, provincial key major, brand major, characteristic major and other quality teaching resources; It is also the main unit of Jiangsu Sub-league of National School Physical Education League (Physical education) and Jiangsu Physical Education League. For a long time, the college has been committed to the cultivation of high-quality sports talents, and has provided a large number of high-level sports professionals, including Olympic champions Chen Yanqing, Wu Jingyu and Sun Yang, for the country and the society, making due contributions to China's sports cause. In 1997, he won the first prize in the first National Contest of Basic Skills for College Students majoring in Physical Education. In 2019, he won the first prize in the first prize of the first prize on behalf of Jiangsu province.

The college has nearly 100 faculty and staff, including nearly 50 with senior titles. There are more than 20 doctoral supervisors, nearly 70 master supervisors, 2 international judges, 10 national judges, and more than 20 flexible introduced, part-time and visiting professors. At present, the university has more than 1,000 full-time students (including 41 doctoral students and 282 master's students).

The University signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau to jointly set up the Jiangsu Sports Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, which will conduct comprehensive cooperation and in-depth integration in scientific research, talent training and high-level sports team construction. Jiangsu Sports and Health Industry Research Institute of Soozhou University was established to give full play to the decision-making advantages of provincial and university co-construction and to build a high-end think tank for sports and health industry and a talent training base for sports industry. In response to the call of Healthy China 2030, to serve the needs of the public for exercise, fitness and rehabilitation, we cooperated with Suzhou Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission and Suzhou Municipal Sports Bureau to establish Sports Cloud Hospital.

It takes all kinds of competitions as the platform to promote learning and highlight the characteristics of sports and education. Three athletes, Sun Yang, Wu Jingyu and Wang Zhendong, performed well in the Rio Olympics and won honor for the school. Zhang Hua won the gold medal in women's 62kg taekwondo at the 28th World University Summer Games. Guo Dan won the 10th place in the women's speed skating team in pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which created the history of Chinese roller skaters to compete in the Winter Olympics. In the 13th National Student Sports Meeting, our school ranked seventh among the participating universities and won the President's Cup award. Our students take part in the national championships, national youth sports, national college track and field championships, national swimming championships, national university health qigong competition, college students nationwide colleges Cheerleading, province college athletics, swimming, provincial colleges and universities governor cup college students and the annual Chinese university students football league, the 18th annual CUBA dragon dance lion dance, the national colleges and universities the university basketball league, the dragon boat race, domestic and international major events such as the international kendo tournament has achieved excellent results, glory for the school, college, add the color, Continue to maintain the competitive sports level of our school First-class in Jiangsu, leading the country solid position.