Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) is based in Nanjing, a historically and culturally inspiring city that was once home to six ancient Chinese dynasties. A Jiangsu Key University and one of China’s first universities included in the nation’s “2011 Project”, NUPT traces its origin back to a Shandong-based wartime postal service training school established in 1942, marking an initial effort by CPC and the PLA to cultivate professionals in communications. The school was in 1958 upgraded by the State Council to a college, renamed Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications. Previously administered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (reorganized and merged into the newly established Ministry of Industry and Information Technology(MIIT)), the institute was in 2000 turned over to the co-administration by the Jiangsu Government and MIIT. It was in 2005 expanded into a university, given its current name. In October 2013, NUPT incorporated Nanjing College for Population Program Management, gaining considerable growth both in size and strength.


Operating from four campuses, i.e. Xianlin, Sanpailou, Suojincun and Jiangning, the university now offers education to around a total of 30000 students.

In addition to 50 undergraduate programs, NUPT now runs 2 Post-doctoral stations and 17 Doctoral Programs (including 3 First-level Degree programs), 44 Academically-oriented Master Degree programs (including 10 First-level Degree programs), 12 Profession-oriented Master Degree programs, as well as MBA and ME programs.

NUPT is home to 7 National Special Major Trial Programs, 1 Trial Program of National Comprehensive Degree Program Reform, 18 Jiangsu-funded Special Programs or trial ones, 8 National Excellence Initiative Programs, 5 Jiangsu Excellence Initiative Programs, 9 Jiangsu Key Programs.

NUPT has a total of 2237 faculty members, including 1362 full-time teachers, 50.37 percent of whom have earned advanced/higher professional titles, and 87.81 percent of whom are with Doctoral and Master’s degrees; 486 of them are supervisors to Ph. D and Master’s degree candidates.