Southeast University 1902 was founded in Sanjiang Normal School, followed by Liangjiang Normal School and Nanjing Higher Normal School. National Southeast University was founded in 192 1, and 1928 was named as National Central University.

1952 adjustment of colleges and departments in colleges and universities, and relocation of arts and sciences departments. In the original site of Sipailou of National Central University, Nanjing Institute of Technology was established with the largest engineering college of the former Central University as the main body and merged into relevant departments of Fudan University. 1988, restore the name of Southeast University and transform it into a comprehensive university. In 2000, it merged with the former Nanjing Railway Medical College, Nanjing Jiaotong University and Nanjing Geological School to form a new Southeast University.

As of March 2023, the school has four campuses, including Sipailou, Jiulong Lake and Dingjiaqiao, with a total area of 5,888 mu. 34 departments and 87 undergraduate majors; There are 39 first-class doctoral programs and 50 first-class master programs; 12 disciplines were selected in the second round of "double-first-class" construction disciplines list, and 5 disciplines got a+in the fourth round of discipline evaluation; There are 384 full-time students19, including undergraduate students16,785, graduate students/265,438 and international students 1994. There are 3300 full-time teachers.

Discipline construction of Southeast University

By March, 2023, the school had 39 first-class discipline authorization points for doctoral degree, 50 first-class discipline authorization points for master's degree, 5 national first-class key disciplines (covering 15 two disciplines), 5 national second-class key disciplines, and 1 national key (cultivation) discipline. The third phase of Jiangsu University's dominant discipline construction project was approved/kloc-.

By March, 2023, our school 13 discipline has entered the top one percent of the ESI world, engineering ranks among the top one thousandths of the ESI world, ranking in the world 17, materials science and computer science rank among the top one thousandths of the ESI world, and computer science ranks ninth in the world.