Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), also known as Nan Xin Da was founded in 1960 by the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government, the Ministry of Education of China, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the State Oceanic Administration. Known until 2004 as the Meteorology College of Nanjing University, it is the oldest meteorology science higher learning institution in China.

Located on the north bank of the River Yangtse, in the heart of the Industrial Zone of Nanjing, on 140 hectares of campus, NUIST has over 30,000 undergraduates, around 1,500 of whom are international students. There are more than 1,500 full-time faculty staff members over 22 schools and colleges.

Today, the university is on the list of China’s national "Double First-rate" universities, offering degree programmes in areas including management, economics, law, agriculture, and humanities. The discipline of atmospheric science ranked as the best in China in an evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education in China. Geoscience, engineering and computer science are also rated particularly highly.

Its motto translates as “promotion of virtue, investigation of nature, cultivation of self and construction of society”.

NUIST is one of two universities to offer the Chinese-Government Scholarship-WMO program, a scholarship offered to students of meteorology or related fields. The school has a World Meteorological Organization Regional Training Centre, which has trained more than 2,400 senior meteorological and hydrological technicians and managers from 140 regions.

The university has established cooperative relationships with 48 universities and colleges in 15 other countries, including Yale University, the University of Manchester and the University of Toronto.

About Nanjing

Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu----one of the most developed provinces of China. It is located in the Yangtze River Delta, with rapid and convenient transportation to the city of Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou. Nanjing is a modern city with energetic economics. Pillar industries such as high-tech electronic information and the auto industry have built a complete industrial system. Nanjing is also a city of excellent specialists for scientific education. As one of the four scientific research education cities in the country, Nanjing has 41 higher universities with over 600,000 students.

Nanjing is an ecological city with a comfortable human-habitat environment. Since the implementation of the construction---- ”Green Nanjing” in 2003, Nanjing has fastened the speed of urban greening.

Nanjing is a civilized city with open minds. At present, 81 top 500 corporations have made investments in Nanjing. Nanjing is a safe city with good public security and sound prevention and control system.

Nanjing belongs to the north subtropical monsoon climate zone with four seasons, plenty of sunshine, and rains. The average temperature of a year is 17.8℃.