金陵科技学院坐落于六朝古都南京，是一所以培养高素质应用型人才为任务的公办全日制普通本科院校，是教育部应用科技大学改革试点战略研究单位、中国应用技术大学（学院）联盟创始单位、长三角地区应用型本科高校联盟主席单位、江苏省一流应用型本科高校建设单位。2021年获批为硕士学位授予单位，2025年获批为江苏省博士学位授予立项建设单位。

Jinling Institute of Technology is located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. It is a public full-time ordinary undergraduate university tasked with cultivating high-quality applied talents. It is a strategic research unit for the reform pilot of application-oriented universities of the Ministry of Education, a founding member of the China Association of Application-Oriented Universities (Colleges), the chairman unit of the Yangtze River Delta Application-Oriented Undergraduate University Alliance, and a construction unit of first-class application-oriented undergraduate universities in Jiangsu Province. It was approved as a master's degree-granting unit in 2021 and a project construction unit for doctoral degree authorization in Jiangsu Province in 2025.

学校前身是1980年成立的新中国第一所全日制城市职业大学——金陵职业大学和1958年成立、1984年复建的南京市农业专科学校。2002年6月经教育部和省市政府批准，两校合并筹建金陵科技学院，2005年3月正式成立。学校现有江宁、幕府、白下三个校区，主校区位于江宁大学城，占地总面积101.64万平方米，校舍总面积67.69万平方米。

The predecessor of the university was Jinling Vocational University, the first full-time urban vocational university in New China founded in 1980, and Nanjing Agricultural College founded in 1958 and reconstructed in 1984. In June 2002, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the provincial and municipal governments, the two schools merged to prepare for the establishment of Jinling Institute of Technology, which was officially established in March 2005. The university now has three campuses: Jiangning, Mufu and Baixia, with the main campus located in Jiangning University Town, covering a total area of 1.0164 million square meters and a total building area of 676,900 square meters.