Currently, the university has over 20,000 full-time undergraduate students and registered international students and over 4,000 continual education students. Among its nearly 1,600 staff, 1,200 are full-time faculty members, about 730 with doctorate degree, and about 770 with senior professional titles.

With over 60 years of development, the number of its alumni has reached over 100,000. Many of them are playing important roles in the fields of science and technology, education, politics, economics and culture, and achieved great accomplishments.

SZUT has established friendly relationships with over 100 universities in USA, Germany, Japan, UK, Australia and other countries and regions. Approved by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, SZUT has developed “3+1” and “3+1.5” dual-degree programs with foreign universities. In 2018, Jiangsu Education Department approved the “1.5+2+0.5 Sino-America dual-degree” program at SZUT, and at the same year, School of Sino-American Education as well as Jiangsu Association of Sino-American Universities were established at SZUT.

The motto of SZUT is “立本求真、日新致远”, which can be paraphrased as “Integrity, Verity, Strive and Thrive”.

The spirit of SZUT is“反对平庸、追求卓越、负重奋进、敢于超越”, which can beparaphrased as “Dare to Create New Horizons”.

SZUT is committed to helping students transform themselves into professionals through, among others, building up their cross-cultural communication ability, sustainable learning ability, global perspectives, and, not the least, readiness to serve the communities.