Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology is a national "double-first-class" construction university, which is a Class A construction university in Jiangsu Province's high-level university construction peak plan. The Institute of Meteorology of Nanjing University (the predecessor of the school) was born to serve the needs of the national strategy and national economic construction of New China, and was established in 1960, under the former Meteorological Bureau of the Central Military Commission. 1963 was independently established as Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, and 1978 was listed as a national key university. In 2000, it was handed over to the leadership of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and renamed Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in 2004.
Since 2007, the school has been approved by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, China Meteorological Bureau, Ministry of Education and State Oceanic Administration. Now it is a central and local university mainly managed by Jiangsu Province.
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The school has distinctive characteristics. Atmospheric science has been selected as a national "world-class discipline" construction discipline, and won the national level and A+ level respectively in the last two first-level discipline evaluations of the Ministry of Education. Meteorology is a national key discipline, and eight disciplines, including earth science, engineering, computer science, environmental science and ecology, chemistry, agricultural science, material science and social science, rank among the top in ESI disciplines in the world 1%, among which earth science and social science,
Reference to the above content: official website-school profile, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology