The school was founded in 1953 by the Military Engineering College of China People's Liberation Army. After the development stages of Artillery Engineering College, East China Engineering College and East China Engineering College, it was renamed Nanjing University of Science and Technology on 1993.

The school has Nanjing Campus, Jiangyin Campus and Xuyi Campus, with a total area of 43 15 mu and a building area of/kloc-0.4 million square meters. Professional colleges18; The library has more than 2.8 million printed documents; There are more than 28,000 full-time students and international students 1000. There are more than 3,300 faculty members, including 2 100 full-time teachers.

Nanjing University of Science and Technology: referred to as "South Institute of Technology", it is located in the ancient capital of 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 Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. It ranks among the key universities of "21Engineering" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" and is selected as a "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction.