Nanjing Vocational College of Information Technology (NJCIT for short) is a high-level higher vocational college with Chinese characteristics, a national demonstration (backbone) higher vocational college, a high-quality higher vocational college of the Ministry of Education, a high-level higher vocational college in Jiangsu Province and an excellent higher vocational college in Jiangsu Province. The predecessor of the school is Nanjing Radio Industrial School, which was founded in 1953. It is the first electronic secondary professional school after the founding of People's Republic of China. Premier Zhou Enlai, and Vice Premier Chen Yi, Tan Zhenlin, Xi Zhongxun visited the college, and more than 3000 foreign guests and experts visited the college. Over the past 70 years, NJCIT has sent more than 70000 technical and skilled talents to the society. Focusing on the three major clusters of information product manufacturing, information network and information technology services, NJCIT offers 51 majors, including 8 national key construction majors (groups), 2 brand specialty construction projects of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, 5 high-level backbone majors in Jiangsu Province, 3 provincial brand majors, 3 provincial characteristic majors, 4 provincial key construction specialty groups and 6 provincial key construction majors. NJCIT has 3 national training bases, 6 provincial training bases, 215 on-campus experimental training rooms and more than 400 off-campus training bases. NJCIT has successively established friendly exchange relations with colleges and universities and educational institutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, India, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries and regions, and expanded overseas exchange and learning channels for teachers and students. NJCIT is a higher vocational college in Jiangsu Province and even East China that has earlier carried out education for overseas students with academic degrees. Since 2014, NJCIT has recruited overseas students with academic degrees from Laos, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Ethiopia, and jointly cultivated communication technology talents adopting the model of School-Enterprise-School with China Communications Technology Co., Ltd. and Arsi University in Ethiopia. Since 2019, NJCIT has undertaken the sub-project of the China-South Africa High-level People-to-People Exchange Mechanism-South African Students Studying and Internship Program in China. Since 2021, NJCIT has undertaken the “Chinese Bridge” Online Camp of the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
南京信息职业技术学院是中国特色高水平高职学校、国家示范性(骨干)高职院校、教育部优质专科高等职业院校、江苏省高水平高等职业院校、江苏省卓越高等职业院校培育校。学校前身是创建于1953年的南京无线电工业学校,是新中国成立后的第一所电子类中等专业学校。周恩来总理、陈毅、谭震林、习仲勋副总理曾到校视察,先后有3000多位外宾、专家到校参观交流。办学七十年来,为社会输送了七万余名技术技能型人才。
学校围绕信息产品制造、信息网络、信息技术服务三大专业集群,开设51个专业,包括8个国家重点建设专业(群)、2个江苏省高校品牌专业建设工程项目、5个江苏省高水平骨干专业、3个省级品牌专业、3个省级特色专业、4个省级重点建设专业群、6个省级重点建设专业。学校建有国家级实训基地3个,省级实训基地6个,校内实验实训室215个,校外实训基地400余家。
学校先后与美国、加拿大、英国、澳大利亚、韩国、新加坡、印度、芬兰、德国、新西兰、南非、越南、泰国、老挝、马来西亚、印度尼西亚等国家的高等院校和教育机构建立友好交流关系,拓展师生境外交流学习渠道。学校是江苏省乃至华东地区较早开展学历留学生教育的高等职业院校,2014年起招收来自老挝、印度尼西亚、吉尔吉斯斯坦、埃塞俄比亚的学历留学生,与中邮建技术有限公司、埃塞俄比亚阿斯大学校企校共同培养通信技术人才,2019年起承接了中南高级别人文交流机制子项目-南非学生来华学习实习项目。2021年起,承办中国教育部中外语言交流合作中心“汉语桥”线上团组交流项目。