About
Located in Nanjing, Jinling Institute of Technology (JIT) is a full-time undergraduate tertiary university, which cultivates advanced application-oriented talents. It is the strategic research unit of the reform pilot of Ministry of Education on application-oriented universities of science and technology, the founding unit of Association of Universities (Colleges) of Applied Science and the chairman unit of Alliance of Applied Undergraduate Universities in the Yangtze River Delta Region. The predecessor of Jinling Institute of Technology is Jinling Polytechnic University, which is the first vocational university in China, and Nanjing Agricultural College, which was founded in 1958 and rebuilt in 1984. In June 2002, approved by Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Jinling Polytechnic University and Nanjing Agricultural College were amalgamated into Jinling Institute of Technology. In March, 2005, Jinling Institute of Technology (JIT) began recruiting new students formally.