Nanchang University, founded in 1921 and located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, is a comprehensive research university with 12 disciplines, a national "double-class" world-class discipline construction university and the only national "211 Project" key construction university in Jiangxi Province. As a high-level university in Jiangxi Province, Selected into the comprehensive strength improvement project of universities in the central and western regions of the country, the national graduate program of building high-level universities, the first batch of excellent engineer education and training programs of the Ministry of Education, the excellent doctor education and training program, the national new engineering research and practice project, the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program, the national college students' innovative experimental program, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the first batch of scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases of colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education. The first batch of 11 college students' scientific and technological entrepreneurship practice bases in China, the first batch of mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases in Jiangxi Province, a member of the "one province, one school" national key construction university (Z14) alliance in the central and western regions, an excellent university in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level in ordinary universities of the Ministry of Education, the main node unit of China Education and Research Computer Network of the Ministry of Education in Jiangxi Province, and the only university in Jiangxi to participate in the construction of China's next-generation Internet demonstration project CNGI.

As of March 218, there were 4,481 faculty members in the school headquarters (including 2,597 full-time teachers and 1,429 associate professors), including 4 "double-hired" academicians, 2 chief scientists of the National 973 Program, 8 leading talents of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program, 1 top-notch young talent and one national "outstanding young person". There are 2 candidates for the "Hundred Talents Program" of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 national excellent doctoral thesis supervisor, 16 national "Hundred Million Talents Project", 1 academician of the International Academy of Food Sciences, 1 member of the discipline evaluation group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 2 members of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, 3 leading talents of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 12 people of the "New (Cross-century) Excellent Talents Support Program" of the Ministry of Education. There are a group of teachers such as Shi Qiujie, a national model teacher, and Zou Defeng, the winner of the Nightingale Medal, the highest honor award in the international nursing field. Zou Defeng, winner of the Nightingale Medal, the highest honor award in the international nursing field, and Jiang Fengyi, a national excellent producer in party member, have emerged in the school, and a number of typical students who advocate teachers' morality and love their jobs.