Hunan Institute of Information Technology, located in Wangcheng District, Changsha City, is the only public higher vocational college directly under the Economic and Information Technology Commission of Hunan Province, one of the first batch of higher vocational colleges approved by the Ministry of Education, an excellent institution for evaluating the talent training level of higher vocational colleges of the Ministry of Education, a demonstration higher vocational college of Hunan Province, a civilized college of Hunan Province, a "garden-style unit" of Hunan Province, a leading unit and a governing unit of Hunan Information Industry Vocational Education Group, and an advanced unit for enrollment and employment of ordinary colleges in Hunan Province.

The college has more than 8,000 full-time students and a strong faculty. There are 220 senior titles above associate professor, 74 teachers above master's degree 154 and 74 famous teachers. There are information engineering departments, mechanical and electrical engineering departments, computer engineering departments, economic management departments, basic departments and other teaching departments, electronic information engineering technology, numerical control technology, software technology, e-commerce and other 28 majors. The college has computer applications and software technical professional training base, provincial key training base for applied electronic technology, Hunan advanced skills training base for automobile manufacturing, Hunan secondary vocational teacher training base/zs.hniujy.cn, Hunan service outsourcing talent training base, Changsha National Software Industry Base-Software Outsourcing Talent Training Base, National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute, and the Sixth Appraisal Station of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.