南京市廣播電視大學坐落在鐘靈毓秀、人文薈萃的古都南京，創辦於1979年2月，原為江蘇省廣播電視大學南京市分校，1985年7月經江蘇省人民政府批準，改為現名。1991年11月經國家教委批準，成為獨立設置的省級廣播電視大學，行政隸屬於南京市人民政府。學校將在業已打造的優秀辦學品牌和積累的豐富的高職院校辦學經驗基礎上，進壹步適應經濟社會發展對高素質專業技術人才的需求，探索高等職業技術教育的辦學模式和人才培養模式，更好地為地方社會經濟發展培養生產、建設、管理、服務壹線需要的職業性、應用性人才。進壹步深化教育教學改革，全面推進綜合素質教育，堅持以教學質量求生存，以專業特色求發展，爭創國內壹流的職業技術學院。
跨入二十壹世紀，南京正在積極推進學習型城市的建設。南京市廣播電視大學堅持以現代遠程開放教育為理念，主動適應地方經濟和社會事業發展需要，為廣大求學者提供了多種參加高等教育和繼續教育學習的機會。學校在全市建立了18所分校及20余個教學點，構建了覆蓋全市、分級辦學、分級管理的辦學系統。學歷教育開設了計算機、外語、財經、管理、法律、藝術等13個門類近80個專業，非學歷教育項目達70余個，形成了以遠程開放教育為特色，學歷教育與非學歷教育並舉，普通教育和成人教育協調發展的格局。至2005年底，學校***培養本、專科畢業生5萬余人，全校各類高等學歷教育在校生3.35萬人，非學歷教育年培訓2萬人次。
南京市廣播電視大學努力適應構建終身教育體系和建立學習型城市的需要，積極探索遠程開放教育的辦學模式。1999年，學校成為教育部批準的首批“中央電大人才培養模式改革和開放教育試點”項目辦學單位。 2002年，學校順利通過教育部“人才培養模式改革和開放教育試點”項目中期評估。2004年，學校建立了南京市遠程教育中心，成為全市開展遠程開放教育的重要基地。此外，學校還設有繼續教育學院、外語教育學院、燎原廣播電視學校、擁軍學院等培訓機構。
南京市廣播電視大學不斷推進教師隊伍建設和教學現代化建設。學校擁有壹支學術水平較高、教學業務優良的專兼職教師隊伍，高、中級職稱教師及專業技術人員占60%以上。在辦學條件上，學校建有計算機網絡中心、電教中心、計算機實驗中心、工科實驗中心、圖書資料中心，配備了多媒體電子閱覽室、多功能學術報告廳、演播廳、衛星雙向視頻會議系統、網絡雙向視頻會議系統、程控電話系統、衛星數字接收系統、閉路電視系統，建成了主幹千兆、桌面百兆的校園網，實現了VOD視頻點播。
南京市廣播電視大學連續6年被市政府授予“市文明單位”稱號。2006年1月，學校被省委、省政府授予“江蘇省文明單位”稱號。學校還多次受到省市教育部門、中央電大的表彰。
A Brief Introduction to NanjingRadio and TV University
Nanjing Radio and TV University is located in Nanjing, a city full of beauty and outstanding personnel. The University was founded in Feb. 1979. In 1991, approved by the National Education Committee, the University became an independent provincial broadcasting and TV University directly under the leadership of Nanjing Municipal People’s Government.College education in excellent school brand has been created and accumulated rich experience on the basis of higher vocational colleges, to further meet the needs of high-quality professional and technical personnel of the economic and social development, to explore the training mode of higher occupation technique education mode and talent, better for the development of local economy and society develop production, construction, management, services for the need of the occupation, applied talents. To further deepen the reform of education and teaching, promoting the comprehensive quality education, adhere to the quality of survival, with professional characteristics and development, create the domestic first-class Career Technical College.
With the entry into the 21st century, Nanjing is actively promoting the construction of city full of study atmosphere. Nanjing Radio and TV University insists on taking modern distance education as its tenet, quickly adapts itself to the development of local economy and demand of social course, is providing varieties of opportunities for numbers of learners to attend tertiary education and continuous education. The university has established 18 branches and over 20 teaching centers, forming an educational system covering the whole city with classified training system and classified management system. The degree education has arranged nearly 30 majors related to 11 different fields, including computer, foreign language, finance, management, law and art etc. The non-degree education covers 70 programmes, and a framework that taking open distance education as its unique characteristic, developing both non-degree education and degree education and reaching the coordinative development of both education (ordinary level) and adult education has come into being. By the end of 2004, there have been total 50000 undergraduates and undergraduate diploma students having graduated from the university. Currently, there are more than 30000 students doing various degree study programmes and 20000 students are attending the non-degree training programmes provided by the university.
Nanjing Radio and TV University is making struggling efforts to get itself well adapted to the need of establishing lifelong educational system as well as developing Nanjing into a city full of study atmosphere, and actively seeks effective ways to carry our open distance education programme. In 1999, the university was selected as one of the first group approved by the Education Ministry to carry out the Outstanding Personnel Training Model and Open Education Experimental Programme by the Central Radio and TV University, In 2002, the University smoothly passed the assessment of the Outstanding Personnel Training Model and Open Education Experimental Programme at the middle stage. In 2004, the University established long distance study center and has become one of the key open distance education bases in Nanjing . Moreover, the University has also set up a series of training institutions such as Continuous Education Institute, Foreign Language Education Institute, Liaoyuan Radio and TV University, and etc.
Nanjing Radio and TV University has constantly promoted the construction of teaching team as well as construction of teaching modernization. The University comprises a group of high qualified and experienced professional teachers both full-time and part-time, over 50% of whom are teachers with intermediate or senior professional titles and professional technicians. In relation to the teaching condition, the University has established computer network center, multimedia education center, computer laboratory center, the engineering laboratory center, books and material center. The University is also equipped with multi-media electronic liberary, multiple functional academic hall, performance and broadcasting hall, the satellite dual video conference system, network dual video conference system, computerized telephone, the satellite digital receiving system, closed circuit TV, a campus network with the internet speed of backbone network reaching 1000M and that of table computer(terminal network) reaching 100M has been set up, realizing VOD video unicast.
Nanjing Radio and TV University has been entitled Nanjing Civilized Unit several times by Nanjing Municipal Government,and entitled Jiangsu Civilized Unit by Jiangsu Provincial government in Jan. 2006. Nanjing Radio and TV University has awarded prizes by educational authorities of Nanjing Municipal and Jiangsu Provincial governments and the Central Radio and TV University.
In this new century, Nanjing Radio and TV University is provided with biggest opportunities than ever before, We will continuously deepen the reform, make expansion and innovation, constantly seek ways to open distance educational programme to confront the challenge ins the new era with open mind, make strenuous efforts to realize the objective of getting our university stronger and our teachers richer and having our university ranking top among our counterparts in the area of open distance education.