The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction and Project 211.As of 2020, NNU has three campuses in Nanjing, namely Xianlin, Suiyuan, and Zijin.

It consists of 28 colleges and schools with an enrollment of 18,369 undergraduates and 12,564 graduate students, including 1,525 doctoral candidates.

It was the first institution in China officially named "university" in English and was registered with the New York State Education Department.

[5] In 1952, as the result of the nationwide reorganization of higher education, some schools and departments of Nanjing University and University of Nanking were separated and merged to establish Nanjing Normal College (南京师范学院), which was set up on the former site of Ginling College.

[6] The college then exchanged several academic faculties and departments with Soochow University (Suzhou) in Jiangsu Province, establishing a more robust discipline system for both institutions.

Nanjing was named among the best student cities in the world for studying abroad by Quacquarelli Symonds in 2019.

It occupies an area of 346.7 hectares and is divided into four parts, east, west, north and south, having the majority of undergraduate students study here.

NNU has signed a cooperative agreement with the Nanjing Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS to strengthen cooperation in the frontiers of earth and space science, exchange of faculty and personnel, and joint training of graduate students.

Students practice singing on weekdays, train performing on Saturdays, and watch different types of operas on Sundays.

The club aims at inheriting and carrying forward the culture of Chinese opera and meanwhile adding varieties to campus activities.

The club mainly offers lessons on the International Latin (Cha-Cha, Rumba, Samba, Paso Doble, Jive).

Team members train weekly to prepare for competitions and performances held in the university and across Nanjing.

Equipped with many complete sets of advanced facilities for exercising, the Xianlin Sports Center covers an area of 23,000 square meters falling in a convenient range for people to reach with six public bus driving directly to the destination and Metro Line 2 a few miles ahead.

Except for the moment of physical teaching and training period, everyone is welcomed to the center to enjoy the shared resources for exercising.