Abstract: In the face of the increasingly prominent problem of structural dislocation between the supply side and the industrial demand side of professional talent training, it has become the consensus of China's application-oriented colleges to build a set of specialty structure adjustment mechanism to meet the needs of China's economic development. The specialty structure of eight application-oriented engineering colleges in Jiangsu Province shows the characteristics of wide coverage of specialty, few kinds of specialty and rapid growth of emerging specialty. There are some problems, such as the characteristics of colleges are not obvious, the repetition of specialty setting is high, the development of brand specialty supporting pillar industry is not obvious, and the brand specialty does not match with key disciplines. Application oriented universities in Jiangsu Province need to coordinate the relationship between emerging majors and traditional majors, build a dynamic adjustment mechanism to adapt to the change of industrial structure, establish a professional group to coordinate with industrial development, and strengthen the integration of disciplines and majors.

Key words: Applied undergraduate colleges, Engineering specialty, Specialty structure, Specialty adjustment