Nanjing Teachers College of Special Education, located in Nanjing, is the only independent institution of higher learning in China, which mainly trains special education teachers.

Nanjing Normal University of Special Education was founded in 1982, and its predecessor was the first normal school of special education in China founded by the Ministry of Education. The school began to train five-year junior college students from 1997, and was upgraded to an ordinary university in 2002.

As of June 20 16, the college has Yanziji Campus and Jiangning Campus, with a total area of 50 1.2 mu, a total construction area of 1 1500 square meters, a library construction area of 12000 square meters, and more than 600,000 paper books, of which Digital resource library 1 1, nearly1.4000 e-books, 55 laboratory (training) rooms on campus, 22 national practice (training) bases 12 colleges/departments, and 3 books/kloc.