The school is located atNo.11Xue Jian Road, Kuancheng District, Changchun City, Jilin Province. It is a private full-time provincial undergraduate college for national enrollment and a pilot college for the overall transformation and development of colleges and universities in Jilin Province.

Jilin Institute of Architecture and Technology is a private undergraduate college in Jilin Province. It is an ordinary undergraduate university where civil engineering and other engineering majors coexist, engineering, management, art and literature support each other and develop harmoniously. It is an application-oriented development demonstration university in Jilin Province, a 5A-level social organization unit in Jilin Province and a civilized campus in Changchun City.

This school was established in June 2000. He used to be the Urban Construction College of Jilin Jianzhu University and the Urban Construction College of Jilin Jianzhu University. In 20 17, it was approved as the construction unit of Jilin master's degree project, and was independently established and renamed as Jilin Institute of Architecture and Technology with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

The school focuses on undergraduate education, jointly trains master students, and enrolls students nationwide. The scale of full-time students is 1 1000.