Nanjing University of Science and Technology, referred to as "South Institute of Technology" for short, is located in the ancient capital Nanjing, with Zijin Mountain in the north and Ming City Wall in the west. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of People's Affairs, Industry and Information Technology of China, and ranks among the key construction universities in "21Project" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform".

Being selected as a "double first-class" world-class discipline construction university is one of the universities selected by "1 1 plan", "excellent plan" and "Sino-Russian Union of Engineering Universities", and is known as the cradle of weapons technical talents.

The school covers an area of 3 1 18 mu, with lush trees and lush grass, with a total construction area of1120,000 square meters. There are mechanical engineering college, chemical engineering college, electronic engineering and photoelectric technology college, computer science and engineering college, energy and power engineering college, materials science and engineering college, environment and bioengineering college, etc.

There are more than 3,200 faculty members, including full-time teachers 1.900, professors and associate professors 1.200. From 2065438 to September 2007, it was selected as a first-class discipline construction university.