As a non-independent legal person, International Joint Audit Institute, Nanjing Audit University, is officially approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and jointly organized by Nanjing Audit University and SKEMA Business School in France. This institute is carrying out undergraduate education, and  is committed to cultivating high-level international audit talents in the new era with global vision, patriotism, full knowledge of international auditing standards, outstanding cross-cultural communication skills, innovative consciousness, cooperative ability, team spirit, and global competitiveness.

As a member of the SAI and CGE, SKEMA Business School is one of the largest elite business schools in France, and this school is too authorized by EQUIS, AACSB and EFMD EMBA at the same time. With 160 years history, and 9 international campuses on 5 continents, this school is ranked top 5 (overall) in France. According to Financial Times, SKEMA’s MBA Finance degree is ranked top 3 in the world. 

To meet the demand for integrated international audit talents in the future, and the requirements of national audit reform, the institute currently conduts undergraduate and graduate education. The institute offers 4 undergraduate programmes: BEc Financial Engineering (financial audit direction), BBA Auditing (internal audit direction), BBA Information Management and Information Systems (big data audit direction), and BBA Engineering Management (engineering audit direction), using "4+0" mode——four years in Nanjing Audit University, while providing one-semester exchange opportunities. The institute too offers 3 graduate programmes: MSc Auditing, MSc Finance, MSc Computer Science and Technology, using "2+0" mode. Graduate students can obtain one-semester to one-year exchange opportunities, the outstanding ones may receive financial support by China Scholarship Council's "Project to Prepare Talent for International Organizations". All Students who have completed their academic qualifications will receive degree and diploma from Nanjing Audit University, as well as degree from SKEMA Business School in France.

The institute adheres to the direction of Socialism, takes the Socialist Core Values as the guide, and builds a student-centered cultivating system. While attaching great importance to professional skills training, the institute pays more attention to the physical and mental health of students, the establishment of values, the accumulation of humanistic literacy and the improvement of the ability to pursue happiness. The institute provides students with personalized growth planning, as well as growth tutors,  society tutors, academic tutors and community tutors' , namely “4 to 1” tracking guidance. Following the motto Never compete with others, but with your own, the institute helps students understand themselves, accept themselves and develop themselves with growth points system.

On the basis of innovative succession to the professional audit characteristics of Nanjing Audit University, the institute closely focuses on the requirements of the new-era national audit reform and international audit development. The institute systematically introduces, absorbs and integrates the advantages of SKEMA Business School’s professional curriculum resources, innovative personnel training methods, and establishes an advanced curriculum system. 50% of the courses are taught by SKEMA business school’s teachers, and all professional courses are taught in English, and research-oriented, interactive teaching mode is adopted while the students are categorized into small classes and instructed directly by two tutors. At the same time, the institute targets at international business school standards, having the French deans staying at the campus to supervise, hiring both Chinese and foreign teaching supervision, introducing third-party to evaluate curriculum outline, teaching plans, classroom teaching, after-school homework, curriculum assessment, practice, etc., to ensure a comprehensive quality control and inspection, as well as a sustainable high-class teaching quality.

The institute carefully selects experienced teachers from NAU and SKEMA Business Schools to teach their students. At the same time, in accordance with the world-renowned university’s standards, the institute recruits eligible teachers from all over the world , and establishes a teaching team with professors from the Changjiang Scholars programme (Ministry of Education of PRC), experts enjoying national allowance, foreign experts, and professional elites. In addition, the College regularly invites domestic and international academicians, well-known scholars, industry experts, social elites to give lectures.