Dalian Institute of Science and Technology is located in Dalian Lushun Economic Development Zone University Town at the southernmost tip of Liaodong Peninsula. Its predecessor was Dalian Jiaotong University School of Information Engineering (formerly Dalian Railway Institute), which was established in 2002. 20 1 1 approved by the Ministry of Education, it was transformed into a provincial ordinary undergraduate college. In 20 16, it was approved as a pilot university for the transformation and development of Liaoning province into an application-oriented university, and in 20021year, it successfully passed the undergraduate program of the Ministry of Education.

The school insists on moral education first, and always regards cultivating and creating school-running characteristics as one of the important tasks of building a strong school. As early as the beginning of the school, Mr. Gao Zhi, the founder, put forward the school motto of "diligence, wisdom, courage, will, honesty, responsibility, tolerance and gratitude". After years of exploration, the characteristics of running a school have initially appeared, that is, implementing the "three major projects" and practicing the "big discipline spirit"; Implementing PEIM education and deepening cooperative education.

The school has 10 secondary colleges, including Mechanical Engineering College, Transportation College, Electrical Engineering College, Information Science and Technology College, Economic Management College, Foreign Languages College, Design Art College, Continuing Education College (Applied Technology College), Harbin Information and Information College, and three teaching units: Marxism College, Foundation Department and Sports Department. It has formed a teaching system that focuses on engineering, including management, literature, law, art and other disciplines.

At present, the school has become the construction institution of the Ministry of Education's "Made in China, internet plus, 2025" plan to promote the integration of production and education, the first batch of 100 "employment, entrepreneurship and innovation school-enterprise cooperation demonstration practice bases" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the typical demonstration base of national entrepreneurship and innovation, the first batch of construction bases of national private schools' party building projects, excellent private universities in Liaoning Province, advanced grass-roots party organizations in Liaoning Province, and Dalian private education party building demonstration school.