NCU has a disciplinary system featured by coordinated development of art, science, medicine and engineering. It, currently, runs 119 undergraduate programs covering 12 disciplines, 8 disciplines and 64 sub-disciplines which confer Ph.D. degrees, 45 disciplines which confer master degrees, 11 post-doctoral research stations, In addition, NCU boasts 1 national key laboratory, 1 national engineering technology research center, 2 national key disciplines,1 key humanity and social science research base of Ministry of Education, 3 grade a class-three hospitals.

NCU adheres to the concept of depending on talents cultivation, integrating education and research, absorbing all resources and pursuing the supreme good to promote practice. It sticks to the education philosophy of admiration of morality and competence and integration of knowledge and practice. NCU has formed an initial diversified talents cultivation system which is based on promoting quality education and all-round development of students, seeking a cultivation mode of pioneering, innovative talents with cross-disciplinary backgrounds.

NCU boasts 13621 postgraduates of all kinds and 36936 full-time undergraduate and 902 international students,NCU has established stable relationship of exchange and cooperation, with more than nearly 60universities, scientific research institutions from 30 countries (regions) and also established Confucius Institute at the University of Poitiers in France and Hasanuddin University of Indonesia. Since its establishment, the school has trained a total of about 400000 talents, and made important contribution to the national and local economic construction and social progress.