Nanjing University of Science and Technology was founded in Harbin in 1953.
It is one of seven Chinese universities affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and it has been successively a member of Project 211 and a Double First-Class rated institution.
The main campus is on Zijin Mountain with a second Jiangyin branch.
Its 15 schools are divided into three clusters – mechanics and equipment, information and control, and chemical engineering and materials.
There are more than 1,000 international students. Joint degrees are operated with the Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs de Metz and with Coventry University, while its main international research collaborators are the Heimholtz Association of German Research Centres and two Singaporean institutions, National University and Nanyang Technical University.