At present, the school has formed a good pattern of comprehensive and coordinated development of science, engineering, management, literature and art with atmospheric science as the center, earth science and information engineering as the main body. It has 1 national first-class discipline construction discipline, 1 national key discipline, 8 Jiangsu university advantageous disciplines, and 22 national first-class undergraduate majors. There are currently 6 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 36 first-level discipline (professional) master's degree programs, 75 undergraduate majors, and 4 postdoctoral mobile stations.
Among the high-level teaching staff, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has more than 2,000 full-time teachers. The doctoral degree rate of full-time teachers is 85.24% and the internationalization rate (more than one year) is 67.22%, ranking among the top universities in China.
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology takes the country's major strategic needs as the guide and strengthens basic, forward-looking and strategic high-tech research. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, it undertook 673 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 156 key projects of the National Key R&D Plan (including special projects), 54 approved National Social Science Fund projects, 266 provincial and ministerial projects, and obtained authorized patents 3574 items.
International education is also one of the best. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and the University of Reading in the UK jointly founded Reading College, which is one of the first batch of universities in the "Jiangsu-UK High-Level Universities 220 Alliance". Established the School of International Education and founded the "Confucius Institute" at the University of The Bahamas. It has the "United Nations World Meteorological Organization Regional Training Center" and has trained more than 4,000 senior meteorological scientists and managers for 157 countries and regions. It has been highly praised and specially commended by the World Meteorological Organization. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has global influence in the field of earth science and can be called the "Whampoa Military Academy" of the meteorological industry. Candidates interested in this field may wish to pay more attention.