Nanjing University of Science and Technology is a double-class university. Nanjing University of Science and Technology is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In 20 17, the school was selected as a "double-first-class" construction university, and "armament science and technology" was selected as a "double-first-class" construction discipline.

The school has a complete range of disciplines and distinctive school characteristics. Existing 15 professional colleges, including mechanical engineering college, chemical engineering college, electronic engineering and photoelectric technology college, computer science and engineering college, economic management college, energy and power engineering college, automation college, science college, foreign languages college, public affairs college, Marxism college, materials science and engineering college, Gleiter research institute, environment and bioengineering college, design art and media college and intellectual property college. And Qian Xuesen College, Sino-French Engineering College, International Education College, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education College and Continuing Education College, and jointly founded two independent colleges, Zijin College of Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Taizhou Institute of Science and Technology of Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

In the long-term development process, the school has formed three dominant discipline groups: weapons and equipment, electronics and information, chemical engineering and materials. Engineering, chemistry, materials science and computer science have entered the top of the global ranking of ESI international disciplines 1‰, of which 1‰ is before engineering. There are 9 national key disciplines, 6 dominant disciplines in Jiangsu Province, 9 key disciplines in Jiangsu Province, 7 key disciplines in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and 10 disciplines with national defense characteristics. The excellent engineer training program of the Ministry of Education has 14 national first-class undergraduate majors, 9 national characteristic majors and 13 pilot majors; 16 postdoctoral mobile station; The first-level discipline has 18 doctoral degree authorization points and 17 master degree authorization points; Master's authorization category 19; Have the right to award an Advanced Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree; Have the right to apply for doctor's and master's degrees with the same academic level as on-the-job personnel, as well as the enrollment right of foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.