Nanjing University Software College is a national model software college approved by the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education in 2002. The full-time student teaching area of the college is located in Xianlin campus, and students live in Xianlin campus. The teaching center of MSE is located in Gulou Campus. There are more than 760 undergraduates and 250 graduate students.

Nanjing University School of Software is an important training base for high-level and compound software application talents in China. Relying on the advantages of Nanjing University's State Key Laboratory of Computer Software New Technology and State Key Discipline of Computer Software and Theory in scientific research, and relying on the advantages of Nanjing High-tech Zone in terms of capital, policy and industry, Nanjing University actively carries out software engineering technology project research and development and software engineering education, so as to cultivate advanced application software talents with international competitiveness for promoting the development of China's software industry.