The college adheres to the college-running orientation of “based on transportation, serving the local area, facing the whole country, and reaching out to the world”. It closely aligns its professional offerings with the national development strategies of “Transportation Power”, “Maritime Power”, “Shipping Power” and “Yangtze River Delta Integration”. The college aims to provide high-quality technical and skilled personnel for the construction of comprehensive transportation system. It has formed a major layout of “water transportation majors as the main body, land transportation majors and aviation majors as the two wings, and the coordinated development of each major”. The college is unique among national higher vocational colleges in that it has one construction base of national high-level professional groups, 4 key majors of national key higher vocational colleges, 9 national key majors, 3 national model majors of transportation, and 2 key majors of improving the development ability of professional service industry supported by the central government.

　　The campus covers an area of nearly 1,000 mu, with the building area of over 360,000 square meters. It has 7 national vocational education training bases, 8 provincial vocational education training bases and 6 Nantong key Laboratories. There are more than 10 provincial and municipal science and technology service organizations such as the Jiangsu Ship Engineering Technology Research and Development Center. There are 37 on-campus training bases and nearly 300 off-campus internship and employment bases. In cooperation with enterprises, the college has built three productive teaching practice ships, namely “The Boat of Hailan”, “Changyang Gate” and “Changchun Gate”.

　　At present, there are nearly 13,000 full-time students in the college and 7 secondary schools, including School of Marine Technology, School of Marine Engineering, School of Shipping and Ocean Engineering, School of Transportation Management and Economics, School of Traffic Engineering, School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Information, School of Humanities and ArtsIt also has 2 general education teaching units, including School of Marxism and the Department of Basic Courses offering 42 majors in total. The college has established and operated 4 sets of Quality Management Systems, including the Education Quality System, the Training Quality System, the Clean Government Risk Prevention and the Control System and Internal Control System, and obtained 6 certificates of quality system in accordance with ISO9001 Quality Standard, quality management rules of the National Maritime Administration and the Norwegian Classification Society. The college fully implements the deployment requirements of the national education administration department on teaching consultation reform, constructed and formed a distinctive internal quality assurance system, and passed the provincial on-spot review. The consultation reform case “Building a Long-term Mechanism for 1234 Consultation Reform Operation, Enabling Double High Construction and High-quality Development” was rated as an “Excellent Typical Case of Teaching Consultation Reform in National Higher Vocational Colleges” and was selected for national typical case compilation and Jiangsu excellent case collection.