One of the Jiangsu provincial key comprehensive universities. A member of the national "211 Project" and "2011 Plan" university.
One of 14 key institutions of higher learning which enjoys the priority for further development and approved by Ministry of Education and one of the pilot universities for modern distance education in China.
It is a multi-disciplinary university with engineering as priority and coordinated development of engineering with science, management, economics, law, philosophy and arts
