Xuanwu Open University is a new university with independent legal personality, which is approved by Nanjing Municipal People's Government, sponsored by Xuanwu District People's Government and managed by District Education Bureau, and undertakes continuing education with undergraduate and junior college degrees. The school is located at the southern foot of Fugui, beside the Pipa Lake, on the root of the Ming City Wall and in the Mid-Levels Garden. Beautiful environment and excellent talents make people full of expectation and yearning for the development vision of the school.
Xuanwu Open University was founded in 1979 on the basis of Nanjing Radio and TV University Xuanwu Campus. It integrates higher vocational education, community education and other educational resources, and together with the neighborhood community education center (Xuanwu Open University Learning Center) forms the whole region's open university school-running system, adhering to the school-running concept of "everyone can learn, learn at all times and learn everywhere" for all Xuanwu citizens, and serving the Xuanwu lifelong education system.
Xuanwu Open University is the platform for residents in the whole region to enjoy learning, the supporting carrier of lifelong education, the center of modern distance education, the base of social training, the leader of community education and the supermarket for citizens' lifelong learning. It is a new university that pays equal attention to non-academic education and academic continuing education, communicates vocational education with general education, and effectively connects pre-vocational education with post-vocational education.