Founded in 1902 Sanjiang Normal School, the school has experienced important development periods such as Liangjiang Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University and National Central University. During the period of 1952, the departments and colleges of national universities were adjusted, and the arts and sciences moved out, with the former Engineering College of Central University as the main body, and successively merged into the relevant departments of Fudan University, Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Jinling University.

Nanjing Institute of Technology was established in the original site of National Central University. In May 1988, the school was renamed Southeast University. In April 2000, the former Southeast University, Nanjing Railway Medical College and Nanjing Jiaotong University merged, and Nanjing Geological School merged to form a new Southeast University.

Teaching philosophy:

When we enter the classroom, we will strongly feel the harmony between teachers and students in classroom teaching and the spark of wisdom between teachers and students in the question-and-answer session. According to students' different intelligence levels and learning abilities, the school proposes to face up to the differences of students' intelligence levels, not discriminate against or ignore any students, and try every means to narrow the differences so that every student can get the best development suitable for his own conditions.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Southeast University.