About Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology

NUIST has a complete higher education system with undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral programs as well as post-doctoral research centers. The four disciplines of Geo-science, Engineering, Computer Science and Environmental Science and Ecology have entered top 1% ESI international discipline rankings. The discipline of Atmospheric Science ranks No. 1 in the national discipline evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education of China successively and enjoys a distinguished reputation throughout the world. In recent years, on the basis of advantageous subjects, NUIST has established a harmonious discipline system of atmospheric science, marine science, information science, environmental science, management and basic science.

Characteristic Discipline

The discipline of Atmospheric Science of NUIST was established in 1960 for the demand of meteorology cause of New China. It enrolled postgraduate students in 1978 and in 1981, it was approved to confer the first batch of master’s degrees. In 1993, it was approved to confer doctoral degree. In 1999, a postdoctoral research center was established in the high-level discipline of Atmospheric Science. In 1988, the sub-discipline of Meteorology and Climatology under the discipline of Atmospheric Science was also designated as a key discipline by China Meteorological Administration. Meteorology was designated as a national key discipline in 2001. In 2006, it passed the National Key Discipline Assessment of the Tenth Five-Year Plan and was granted National Key Discipline of the 11thFive-Year Plan in 2007. In 2012, the discipline of Atmospheric Science ranked No. 1 in the third round of university discipline evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education of China. In 2017, the discipline of Atmospheric Science became a “Double First-class” construction discipline, and won the “A+” grade in the fourth round of university discipline evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education.

At present, NUIST has 6 doctoral programs, namely, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Science and Engineering, Information and Communication Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, Mathematics and History of Science and Technology. Besides, there are 22 master programs and 13 professional master programs.

Advantages

By April 2020, the university has more than 1700 full-time teachers, including 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 14 overseas academicians, 1 distinguished professor of the talent support plan of the Ministry of education, 8 national outstanding young people, 4 leading talents of the 10000 person plan, 11 chief scientists of national key R & D projects, 6 million talent projects, 18 “four young” talents such as excellent young people, There are more than 50 national level talents, more than 480 provincial and ministerial level talent projects and famous teachers, and 28 provincial and ministerial level teaching and scientific research teams such as the first batch of Huang Danian style teacher team and Jiangsu innovation and entrepreneurship team. Among the full-time teachers, 84.9% have a doctoral degree and 65.62% have more than one year of overseas research experience.