Nanxinda University, formerly known as Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, has the reputation of "the cradle of meteorological talents in China". From 65438 to 0978, Nanxin University was identified as a national key university, and was renamed Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in 2004. It is a national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, China Meteorological Bureau and Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, and one of the 15 key universities in Jiangsu Province. It has a complete bachelor's, master's and doctoral education and training system and a postdoctoral research station. The school is dedicated to the world-famous Yu Jiancheng Meteorological University.
On September 20th, 20 17, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on Publishing the List of World-class Universities and First-class Discipline Construction Universities and Discipline Construction. The list of double first-class universities was finalized, including 42 world-class universities and 137(42+95) world-class discipline construction universities. Among them, the atmospheric science of Nanxin University ranks in the list of world-class discipline construction.
Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology's national specialties include atmospheric science, applied meteorology, environmental science, electronic information engineering and computer science and technology. The national comprehensive reform pilot majors include atmospheric science and information and computing science.