Software and Big Data School was set up in November 2018 by merging the former Software school and Network and Communication Engineering school. Now the school covers 2 specialty clusters: software technology and information security.
The school boasts 1 national famous teacher, 1 national excellent teaching team and 1 teaching innovation team, 1 national practical training base, 1 national excellent resource sharing course, 2 national teaching resource pools. The school has taken the lead in setting up China Software Industry and Training Alliance, China Cyber Space Safety Industry and Training Integration Alliance and the Yangtze River Delta Software Vocational Education Group.
The school has a faculty of 104, including 2 full professors 44 associate professors and 13 doctors.