Nanjing University of Science and Technology, founded in 1953, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a subordinate unit of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. It is also a national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, a national "double first-class" world-class discipline, and a key university of "2 1 1 Engineering" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform".
The school has been selected into the national "11plan", "excellent engineer education and training plan", "national master's degree program for building high-level universities", "new engineering research and practice project", "national innovative experiment plan for college students", "scholarship for overseas students from China government", "national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship" and ". 18 The university was approved as one of the national dual-innovation demonstration bases, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and the member units of the Sino-Russian Engineering University Alliance and the China Weapons Collaborative Innovation Alliance, which is known as the "cradle of weapons technical talents".