The School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) has the mission of creating knowledge by conducting advanced research, disseminating knowledge by providing high-quality education to our students, and converting knowledge by transferring innovative technology into social productivity.

The School provides the students with well-designed education in modern information science and technology as well as extensive experimental training. The School pays great attention to basic theories and puts emphasis on combining science with technology. As to talent cultivation, the School explores changing the traditional way of educating students majored in engineering. The School's teaching and experiment centers on circuit and system, theory and system of microcomputers, electronic information, automation, electronic system design, digital signal processing, and information security are all at the leading level. Moreover, letting senior undergraduate students directly participate in scientific research has always been a good tradition. In this way, the students may contact the frontier of science and technology and receive fine training on research and engineering. As a result, the students of the School are very active in various scientific and technological activities and have obtained many excellent results.