The school is located in the core pilot area of "the Belt and Road Initiative", the eastern bridgehead of the Eurasian Continental Bridge, and Lianyungang, the first coastal open city in China.The university has 20 colleges, offering 69 undergraduate majors, covering ten disciplines such as engineering, science, management, literature, agriculture, law, economics, art, education and medicine.

The school insists on taking personnel training as the center, and strives to cultivate compound applied talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, beauty and labor, good foundation, high quality, strong ability, ocean consciousness, innovative spirit and national feelings.

The school insists on opening up and international cooperation as a breakthrough, and strives to build a high-end platform for regional economic and social development and cultural exchanges. At present, the school has signed educational and scientific research cooperation agreements with many foreign universities, and has maintained friendly exchanges with dozens of universities in the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and other countries.