According to official website of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, starting from 2023, the university decided that freshmen would go to Jiangyin for one year and then return to their headquarters. Students in Jiangyin Campus will go to the headquarters to study.

Nanjing University of Science and Technology, referred to as "South Institute of Technology", located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China and jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. Jiangyin Campus is an inseparable functional area of general higher education and the main campus of foreign cooperation in running schools, and it is also the key project of the school's "one school, three districts" school layout.

Covering an area of 1 1 15 mu, the first-phase construction area is about 320,000 square meters. According to the needs of regional economic development and local industrial advantages, combined with the advantages of South University of Technology and the needs of "double-class" construction, the school set up seven colleges in advance, including China-France Engineers College, Cyberspace Security College, Intelligent Manufacturing College, New Energy College, Industrial Internet Research Institute, International Education College and Jiangyin College.

Education construction:

Jiangyin Campus adopts an international school-running mode and implements undergraduate and postgraduate education and teaching reform with small class size and academy system as the core. Focus on the development of modern equipment manufacturing, new materials, new energy, microelectronics, cyberspace security, business administration, public management, project management, social work and other related disciplines.

Construction of mechanical engineering, material science and engineering, intelligent manufacturing engineering, cyberspace security, information management and information system, new energy science and engineering and other majors.

Zhang Jun, secretary of the Party Committee of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, said that Jiangyin Campus will aim at the urgent needs of the country, key areas and economic and social needs, give full play to the advantages of talents and science and technology, and provide strong talent support and intellectual guarantee for serving the national strategy and helping Jiangyin become the vanguard of regional development.

Xu Feng, secretary of Jiangyin Municipal Party Committee, said that Jiangyin City and Nanjing University of Science and Technology will coexist and prosper together, and work together to build a first-class and high-level international campus, making Jiangyin Campus of South University of Science and Technology a training base for high-end talents, a source of industrial innovation and a leading place of ideology and culture.