Since its establishment, the school has cultivated more than 80,000 graduates of all kinds, many of whom have become renowned scientists, scholars and senior managers at home and abroad. The school adheres to the fine school spirit of "frugality, diligence and learning" and the school motto of "cultivating virtue and understanding things, improving oneself and helping others". Among them are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Canada, leaders of central ministries and commissions, and senior officials of the World Meteorological Organization. The university has more than 30,000 full-time undergraduate students, over 3,900 postgraduate students, and more than 1,500 teachers. It has more than 60 experts including academicians, outstanding young scholars, talents under the Thousand Talents Program, national-level talents under the Thousand Talents Program, Jiangsu Province Distinguished Professors, Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, and more than 10 national-level teaching teams, Ministry of Education innovation teams, Jiangsu Province Innovation and entrepreneurship teams. 79.7 percent of full-time teachers have doctoral degrees and 60 percent have more than one year of overseas study experience. There are 23 colleges (departments) including the School of Atmospheric Sciences and the Changwang Experimental Class, as well as the Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate and Meteorological Disasters and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Atmospheric Environment and Equipment technology It has more than 20 provincial and ministerial-level research institutions, including the first international joint laboratory of Climate and Environmental Change of the Ministry of Education, the key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters of the Ministry of Education, the Key Open Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics and atmospheric Environment of the China Meteorological Administration, the China Manufacturing Development Research Institute, and the Institute of Climate Change and Public Policy.
The university has a number of national key disciplines, provincial and ministerial key disciplines, national characteristic specialties, as well as brand and characteristic specialties of Jiangsu Province, 53 undergraduate programs covering eight disciplines including science, engineering, management, literature, economics, law, agriculture and art, and postgraduate and doctoral programs basically cover undergraduate programs. The school attaches great importance to innovative education and has 27 teaching and experimental centers. Among them, the experimental teaching Center of Atmospheric Science and Environmental Meteorology is a national experimental teaching demonstration center, and the Experimental Teaching Center of Virtual Simulation of Atmospheric Science and Meteorological information is a national experimental teaching center. The school's "Construction and Practice of a Talent Cultivation Model for Big Meteorology under the Co-construction System" won the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award. Students have won numerous awards, including the Gold Medal of the First China "Internet Plus" College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the only special prize of the College Students' Mathematical Modeling Competition "Higher Education Press Cup", the first prize of the national Challenge Cup Competition, the first prize of the National College Students' Electronic Design Competition, and the special prize of the China Robot Competition. The men's university volleyball team won the championship of the 2015-2016 China University Volleyball League.
The school actively engages in international cooperation and has established partnerships for talent cultivation and scientific research with 48 prestigious universities in 15 countries, including Yale University in the United States. The university has established the Confucius Institute in the Bahamas and has the qualifications to recruit international students from the Chinese government, the Office of Chinese Language International Promotion, the Jiangsu Provincial Government Jasmine Flower Scholarship, the Nanjing Municipal Government Scholarship, etc. In 2017, there were 1,553 international students from 120 countries. The United Nations World Meteorological Organization Regional Training Centre, which has trained more than 3,300 senior meteorological technicians and managers for 154 countries and regions, has become the world's largest training centre in terms of scale and quality, and has received high praise and special commendation from the World Meteorological Organization.
