南京理工大学是隶属于工业和信息化部的全国重点大学，坐落在钟灵毓秀的古都南京。学校由创建于1953年的新中国军工科技最高学府——中国人民解放军军事工程学院（哈军工）分建而成，经历了炮兵工程学院、华东工程学院、华东工学院等发展阶段，1993年更名为南京理工大学。

Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) is a national key university affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, located in the ancient capital Nanjing with beautiful scenery. The university was established in 1953 as a branch of the PLA Military Engineering Institute (Harbin Institute of Military Engineering), the highest institution of military science and technology in New China. It has gone through development stages such as the Artillery Engineering Institute, East China Engineering Institute, and East China Institute of Technology, and was renamed Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1993.

学校是国家“双一流”建设高校，“211工程”“985工程优势学科创新平台”建设高校，入选“111计划”“卓越工程师教育培养计划”等，形成了以工为主，理、工、文、经、管、法、教、艺等多学科协调发展的学科专业体系。

The university is a national "Double First-Class" construction university, a "211 Project" and "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" construction university. It has been selected into the "111 Plan" and "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan", forming a disciplinary professional system with engineering as the main focus and coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as science, engineering, literature, economics, management, law, education, and art.

学校始终坚持立德树人根本任务，弘扬“进德修业，志道鼎新”的校训，以服务国家战略需求和推动社会进步为己任，培养了大批高素质创新人才，在国防科技、武器装备、民用科技等领域取得了一系列重大成果，为国家现代化建设作出了重要贡献。

Adhering to the fundamental task of cultivating virtues and talents, carrying forward the school motto of "Promoting Virtue and Learning, Aspiring to Innovation", the university takes serving national strategic needs and promoting social progress as its responsibility. It has cultivated a large number of high-quality innovative talents and achieved a series of major results in the fields of national defense science and technology, weapons and equipment, and civil science and technology, making important contributions to the national modernization drive.