With the software of CiteSpace Ⅲ, the author drawed maps of research hotspots and their intellectual base in Jiang Su Higher Education (2003-2012). The research mainly focus on "university", "higher education" and "undergraduate". The intellectual base consists of several foreign educational classics as follows: Clark's Higher Education System: Academic Organization in Cross-National Perspective,Perspectives on Higher Education: Eight Disciplinary and Comparative Views,and Jaspers'What is education, and academic masterpieces devoted by Chinese higher educators, e.g. professor PAN Mao-yuan and XUE Tian-xiang. All of these reflect the high academic level of the journal.