Open to the outside world. Located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, it is a public full-time undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu and Nanjing municipal governments. It is a national pilot university for cultivating architectural skilled talents, an excellent engineer education and training plan, a strategic research unit for the pilot reform of the University of Applied Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, a founding unit of China Universities of Applied Sciences (College) Alliance and a member unit of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance.