Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology is a national "double-first-class" construction university, which is a Class A construction university in Jiangsu Province's high-level university construction peak plan. The school was born to serve the national strategy of new China and the needs of national economic construction. 1960 the school of meteorology of Nanjing university (the predecessor of the school) was established and was affiliated to the former meteorological bureau of the central military commission.
Nanjing Institute of Meteorology 1963 was established independently, and 1978 was listed as a national key university. In 2000, he was transferred to the leadership of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and renamed Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in 2004. Since 2007, the school has been approved by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, China Meteorological Bureau, Ministry of Education and State Oceanic Administration. Now it is a central and local university mainly managed by Jiangsu Province.
The main campus of the school is located in Jiangbei New District, Nanjing, covering an area of more than 2,000 mu. Jinniu Lake Industry-Education Integration Park is located in Jinniu Lake New District of Tianchang City, adjacent to Liuhe District of Nanjing City. Wuxi Campus is located in Dong Xi New Town, Wuxi City, and has a joint training base for Wuxi graduate students of Binjiang College (now transformed into Wuxi College) and Nanxin University; In addition, there are university science parks and their cultural tourism parks in Jiangbei New District, Liuhe District and Yuhuatai District of Nanjing.
At present, there are about 36,830 full-time students, including about 28,300 undergraduates, about 7,300 graduate students and about 1.230 international students. The school has distinctive school-running characteristics, and atmospheric science has been selected as the national "world-class discipline" construction discipline, and won the A+ grade in the latest discipline evaluation of the Ministry of Education.
The school currently has 24 professional colleges, as well as high-level colleges such as International Education College, Reading College (Sino-British cooperation), Waterford College (Sino-Irish cooperation), Wang Chang College (top-notch training), Longshan College (large-scale training), Lianzhou College (innovation and entrepreneurship), Applied Technology College and Continuing Education College.
The school has a strong faculty, with more than 2,000 full-time teachers, including 2 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, overseas academicians 16, IAA academicians 1 person, national talents 17, and more than 500 provincial and ministerial talents. At present, there are 50 teaching and research teams at or above the provincial and ministerial level, such as "Huang Danian-style teachers team in national colleges and universities" of the Ministry of Education, innovative research group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Jiangsu Shuangchuang Team.