International College (Suzhou Research Institute) was inaugurated in September 2007. On September 6, 2009, the opening ceremony of the first full-time students was held. It is an important career for Renmin University of China to carry out teaching, training, cooperative research, team building, logistic support and other related activities in Suzhou, with a focus on postgraduate training.

Inaugurated in June 2012, Sino-French Institute is the first Chinese-foreign cooperative educational institution focusing on humanities and social sciences in China founded by Renmin University of China in cooperation with Sorbonne University, Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, and KEDGE Business School. The institute is affiliated with research institutes such as the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la France et la Francophonie, which promotes people-to-people exchanges between China and French-speaking countries through country studies and comparative studies, research on Sino-French cooperative undertakings, as well as research on health management and aging issues.

Silk Road School was inaugurated in May 2018, and is the first school to be named with “Silk Road” among the “Double First-Class” universities in China. It integrates world-class educational resources, creates a curriculum system of China’s national conditions around the four directions, namely China’s politics, economy, law and culture. Besides, it gathers global political leaders, business elites and outstanding scholars to cultivate internationalized and composite high-end talents and future elite leaders who love China and have a deep understanding of China’s development path, model and experience for the countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”, and to contribute to the promotion of exchanges and mutual understanding of civilizations and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

School of Smart Governance was established in September 2023. Guided by the theory of intelligent governance, it focuses on the frontiers of the times. It has four visions, including “world-oriented training of basic talents”, “future-oriented research and development of governance technology”, “society-oriented governance and innovative design”, and “development-oriented governance consultation”. The institute aims to cultivate cross-composite high-end talents with solid knowledge of data science, basic theory of artificial intelligence and specialized knowledge in humanities and social sciences, excellent data analysis, artificial intelligence algorithm design and intelligent governance, as well as the ability to solve practical problems in governance.

Suzhou Institute of Artificial Intelligence (Suzhou Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) was established in November 2024, jointly built by the university and Suzhou Municipal Government. As a new-type college of the university, it is constructed through a laboratory model. Guided by the basic principles of "product-driven, service-driven, and contribution-driven," and aiming at major original innovations, the institute takes market demands and industrial applications as its orientation, focuses on core products and key technologies, adheres to frontier research, technological R&D, and achievement transformation, actively cultivates and develops new productive forces, and vigorously constructs an integrated platform for government, industry, academia, research, and application. It drives forward in a dual-wheel mode with the Hillhouse Institute of Artificial Intelligence, collaborating in a differentiated manner, mutually empowers and coordinates with the School of Smart Governance, achieves high-level collaborative development with the artificial intelligence industry in Suzhou and the Yangtze River Delta, builds a highland for smart governance, and comprehensively serves major national strategies.