Originating from the Department of Radio Engineering founded in 1959, the School of Electronics and Information Engineering (SEIE) has 6 undergraduate majors including communications engineering, electronics and Information engineering, information countermeasure technology, remote sensing science and technology, electromagnetic field and wireless technologies, measurement and control engineering and intelligence. Combining the international academic frontier with the country's major strategic needs, the school has formed a number of characteristic scientific research directions. The discipline of Information and Communication Engineering was evaluated as A- in the 4th round of disciplines evaluation by the Ministry of Education in 2016. SEIE has always adhered to the fundamental task of cultivating talents by virtue and the central position of talent training, and has established a "Research-Oriented, Personalized and Elitism" innovative talent training system and project driven innovative talent training mode, and has achieved outstanding effect. By 2020 SEIE has trained more than 8300 undergraduates, 3200 masters and 520 PhD students. They have grown into leading engineering talents in relevant fields, play essential roles in different areas.

The school has 154 faculty members, including one academician, two winners of in the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, two members of the Recruitment Program in the Key Talent Program, four members of the Recruitment Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, 33 professors, 54 associate professors, and 62 doctoral supervisors. Professor Yongtan Liu, the subject leader, the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a famous expert in the field of radar and electronics information systems in China and won the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2018. SEIE has 6 key laboratories and engineering research center of the Ministerial and Provincial level and participated there 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers of the Ministry of Education. Annual research funds are more than 100 million RMB. SEIE won more than 10 National,  Provincial and Ministerial science and technology awards in the past 5 years. More than 30 teachers have served in international academic organizations or served as editorial boards of international journals, and the international academic influence of the school has been increasing.