Jiangsu University of Science and Technology is an ordinary institution of higher learning with distinctive features. It is a high-level university construction institution in Jiangsu Province, an excellent undergraduate teaching level evaluation institution of the Ministry of Education, and an excellent engineer education and training program institution of the Ministry of Education.

The school began to recruit and train undergraduates on 1978, and obtained the right to confer master's degree on 1993, and the right to confer doctoral degree in 2008. In addition, Suzhou Institute of Technology of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology has two campuses, namely Changshan and Meng Xi in Zhenjiang, Zhangjiagang Campus and Shanghai Office, covering an area of 3,979 mu.

The school has complete teaching and research facilities and research platforms, including 15 national and provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 0 national and provincial key laboratories and engineering laboratories, 22 national and provincial research centers, and1key industrial colleges in Jiangsu Province.