The School of Mines has 157 staff members, including 2 academicians (external), 35 professors, and 51 associate professors, along with 10 national-level talents and over 40 provincial-level talents. There are 5 undergraduate programs: Mining Engineering, Intelligent Mining Engineering, New Energy Science and Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Transportation. The School has 6 doctoral degree authorization centers: 1 for first-level discipline (Mining Engineering), 2 for second-level discipline (Mining Engineering, and Resource Development Planning and Design), 2 for interdiscipline (Artificial Intelligence, and New Energy Science and Engineering) and 1 for professional degree (Resource and Environment). There are also 9 master degree authorization centers: 1 for first-level discipline, 3 for second-level discipline, 2 for interdiscipline and 3 for professional degree. The present number of students in the School is over 2477 (including 79 international students): 1280 undergraduates and 1197 postgraduate (739 masters and 458 doctors). More than 15,000 graduates, since the School’s establishment, have been put into all sections of our economy, especially into the coal industry where most of the backbones from mine managers and the chief engineers are the graduates of the School.

The Mining Engineering is one of the key construction disciplines of the national "211 Project", "985 Innovation Platform for Advantageous Disciplines" and "World-class Discipline Construction Project", as well as one of the first disciplines allowed to set up the position of Distinguished Professorby the Chang Jiang Scholars Program.It was the winner of the A+discipline in both 4thand 5thNational Discipline Evaluation, was selected as the Double First-Class Discipline (world-class university and world-class discipline) for the second time in 2022, and, over the past 5 years, was consistently among the TOP 20 in the QS World University Subject Rankings. The Mining-Engineering post-doctorate R&D base was built in 1985, one of the first bases. The Discipline has 4 national teaching and research platforms—State Key Laboratory for Fine Exploration and Intelligent Development of Coal Resources, Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation in Resource Utilization and Disposal of Solid Waste in Mines, National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Mining Engineering, and National Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center of Mining Engineering— and4 provincial (ministerial) teaching and research platforms, Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Resource Mining of Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Mine Earthquake Monitoring and Prevention, the Key Laboratory of Mine Roof Disaster Prevention and Control (National Mine Safety Administration) and the Key Laboratory of Mine Rock Burst Control Technology and Equipment (National Mine Safety Administration).

The School, facing the national energy-security strategy and the main battlefield of the economy, actively embraces the national and industrial major S&T challenges, has made a huge contribution to the green-safe-and-efficient coal mining, and therefore has been playing a leading role in the coal industry’s S&T innovation and growth. Since 2010, the School of Mines has undertaken 241 nationalmajor research projects,and 127 provincial (ministerial)onesand 3650 college-enterprise S&T projects for the reason of which the research fund has been up to RMB 1.517 billion Yuan, and won a host of scientific awards like 5 at the national level and 135 at the provincial (ministerial) level, as well as over 1000 invention patents domestically and overseas authorized. The School of Mines has held a close partnership with domestic research institutes in the field of energy and mining and with all large coal enterprises in China, and also developed a stable academic communication and research mechanism with overseas universities and research institutes of more than 20 countries from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada to Russia.