The South East Technological University is in Ireland. [Photo/ourjiangsu.com]

The Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province recently received approval from the Ministry of Education to open the NUIST Waterford Institute with the South East Technological University in Ireland.

The institute offers five undergraduate majors – software engineering, internet of things, electrical engineering and automation, information engineering and artificial intelligence – and an electronic information major for master's students. It will enroll 180 undergraduates and 30 graduates each year.

The NUIST has been cooperating with the South East Technological University for 15 years. The software engineering program operated by the two schools has educated about 1,000 students and the employment rate for the program's graduates has been more than 99 percent over the past three years.

The Irish university, which has five campuses and over 20,000 students and teachers, boasts an advantage in information-related fields of study.

The NUIST now has two schools that are run by itself and a foreign institute. The other school is the NUIST Reading Academy built in cooperation with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.