The School of Electronic Science and Engneering (SESE) traces its history back to the radiophysics and semi-conductor physics programs founded at Nanjing University in the 1950s. For the last few years, the university has made efforts to develop its academic disciplines and enhance its strength in fields of high and new technology and engineering and in 2009, developed the disciplines of electronic science and technology and information and communication engineering into the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, with the help of No. 14 and No.50 Research Institutes of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.