Founded in October of 1954, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (NJUCM) is one of the earliest established universities of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China. As the founder and advocator of TCM higher education, NJUCM enjoys a reputation of "the Cradle of Chinese TCM Higher Education" both at home and abroad. NJUCM is now a leading university of higher education in Jiangsu province, the WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine, the International Acupuncture Training Center specified by the Ministry of Health of China, and the first batches of TCM universities approved by the Ministry of Education of China to receive and train students from foreign countries as well as Taiwan region.

NJUCM is famous for its own teaching achievements. At present, on its campus there are 13 teaching units to give students comprehensively the academic subjects. It provides four levels of education: the three-year professional program, Bachelor program, Master program and Doctor Program. There are three post-doctoral working stations covering TCM, Chinese Medical, and Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, 21 majors for Doctor's degree, and 23 majors for Master's degree in this university. For the time being, students on campus number more than 18,000, among which over 1500 are postgraduate students, and about 1200 are international students or students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan at different learning levels.