Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST) is a national “Double First-Class” construction university and a high-level university in Jiangsu. It originated from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, founded in 1960, and is known as “the cradle of meteorological talent.” Since 2007, it has been jointly built by the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government, the China Meteorological Administration, the Ministry of Education and other parties.

NUIST is located in Jiangbei New District, Nanjing, covering over 2,000 mu. It has about 42,800 full-time students, including 30,800 undergraduates, 9,800 master’s and doctoral students, 1,900 international students and 350 exchange students.

Atmospheric Science ranks No. 1 in China and No. 5 in the world. Meteorology is a national key discipline. Twelve disciplines—Geoscience, Engineering, Computer Science, Environmental Science & Ecology, Mathematics, Chemistry, Agricultural Sciences, Materials Science, Plant & Animal Science, Clinical Medicine, Physics and Social Sciences, General—are in the ESI global top 1%, with Geoscience, Computer Science, Environmental Science & Ecology and Engineering in the top 1‰. NUIST offers 11 first-level doctoral programs, 3 professional doctoral programs, 28 first-level master’s programs, 26 professional master’s programs, 6 postdoctoral stations and 87 undergraduate majors across 10 fields. It has 24 professional schools and 10 high-level teaching institutions, including Reading Academy, Waterford Institute, Changwang School of Honors and Longshan College.

The university has over 2,500 full-time teachers and 800 part-time teachers, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 overseas academicians and 2 academicians of the International Academy of Astronautics. It has 30 national first-class undergraduate majors, 16 provincial first-class majors, 41 national first-class courses and a library with one of China’s richest atmospheric science collections.

NUIST has a distinctive profile in international education and cooperation. It has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 170 overseas universities, including Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Reading, the University of Manchester and the Russian State Hydrometeorological University, and is one of the first members of the Jiangsu–UK High-Level University Alliance.NUIST is qualified to recruit international students under scholarships including the Chinese Government Scholarship, Ministry of Commerce Scholarship, Center for Language Education and Cooperation (Ministry of Education) Scholarship and Jiangsu Provincial Government Scholarship, and undertakes the Ministry of Education pilot program for improving the teaching quality of international students in China. It has co-built the Confucius Institute at the University of the Bahamas and is the inaugural chair institution of the Jiangsu International Chinese Language Education (Confucius Institute) Work Alliance. It hosts the WMO Regional Training Centre and the ESCAP/Typhoon Committee Training Centre, and has trained over 6,000 senior meteorological professionals for 160 countries and regions, receiving high recognition from the World Meteorological Organization. It regularly sends young professional officers and interns to international organizations, and its international cooperation projects have been included in the UN Decade of Action for Sustainable Development. In addition, it has cooperated with universities in Belt and Road countries such as Ghana and Uganda to establish seven climate academies, contributing to global climate governance.