Jinling
Institute of Technology (JIT), located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,
offers full-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses in advanced
science and technological fields. The university structures itself upon
the strategic research of the reform pilot of the Ministry of Education
on application-oriented universities of science and technology. The
university is the founding unit of the Association of Universities
(Colleges) of Applied Science and chairs the Alliance of Applied
Undergraduate Universities in the Yangtze River Delta Region. In 2021,
JIT was approved as a master’s degree awarding institution. Its
predecessor was Jinling Polytechnic University, which was founded in
1980 as the first vocational university in China, and Nanjing
Agricultural College, which was founded in 1958 and rebuilt in 1984. In
June 2002, approved by the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Provincial
Government and Nanjing Municipal government, Jinling Polytechnic
University and Nanjing Agricultural College were amalgamated into
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