College of Nuclear Science and Technology, former major of nuclear power plant founded in 1958 of "PLA Military Engineering Institute", was established on December 12, 2005 to satisfy the needs of the development of China’s nuclear technology. The College has established the development outlook of "internationalization, openness, research and high-level innovation" which summarizes the concise cultural concept of "virtue, knowledge, inclusiveness and diversity".

In its long-time teaching and research practice, the College has gathered and nurtured a group of well-known nuclear engineering experts and excellent young scholars, and built a high-level international teaching team that is reasonably structured, progressive and cooperative. At present, the number of faculty is about 124, including 78 full-time teachers. Among them, 23 are senior Professors, 30 are associate Professors, and 69 Lecturers hold doctorate degree, accounting for 88.5% of the total number of full-time Lecturers. It has 29 doctoral supervisors and 32master supervisors, and has hired 55 domestic and foreign part-time (visiting) Professors, including 3 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 international academic masters and more than 40 well-known domestic and foreign scholars. It has more than 10 national-level talents and experts and more than 30 provincial-level talents, and has Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education, the Innovation Team in national defense-related science and technology and the first batch of "Leading Team" of Heilongjiang Province. Currently, the College has 1774 students, including 862 undergraduates, 495 postgraduates, 258 doctoral students and 159 international students.

Currently, the College has a mobile center for post-doctoral research of "Nuclear Science and Technology" as a first level discipline and is an authorized unit to grant doctorate’s and master's degrees in "Nuclear Science and Technology" as a first level discipline, which is a key discipline of "Project 211" and a key discipline of State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, PRC. It offers two bachelor’s degree programs, namely, the "Nuclear Engineering and Technology", which is one of the first national first-class undergraduate programs and the first nuclear engineering major certified by engineering education accreditation among domestic universities, and the "Nuclear Chemical Engineering and Nuclear Fuel Engineering", which is a national first-class undergraduate program, one of the first "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" majors of the Ministry of Education and the first certified major among nuclear chemical and nuclear fuel engineering majors in China. It has the National-level Base for the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities, the State-of the art Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Center, the Collaborative Innovation Center Co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and Heilongjiang Provincial Government, the Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education, the National-level International Joint Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the S&T Industrial Innovation Center of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense of the PRC, the Key Subject Laboratory of State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense of the PRC, the Key Laboratory of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China, the Key Laboratory of Heilongjiang Province and the Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Heilongjiang Province.

The College has been engaged in cutting-edge scientific and technological research in the fields of digital and intelligent nuclear energy technology, nuclear safety analysis and evaluation technology, nuclear power plant performance and optimization, new-working-substance and new-purpose nuclear power system, spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and radioactive waste treatment, radiation application and detection, and radiation effects of nuclear engineering materials, and has made a number of remarkable scientific research achievements and won the second prize of NationalAward of Science and Technology Progress and more than 30 provincial- and ministerial-level awards of science and technology.