Qingdao University of Technology

Qingdao University of Technology is a multidisciplinary university with engineering as its main discipline, with distinctive characteristics in civil engineering, mechanical manufacturing, and environmental energy, and coordinated development of science, engineering, economics, management, liberal arts, and other disciplines. It is one of the first batch of local universities in the country to be built under the "111 Plan", one of the first batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a famous university with application-based talent training characteristics that Shandong Province has focused on, and one of the first batch of high-level universities in Shandong Province that have "strong characteristics" under construction.

The school was founded in 1952 and was successively affiliated to the former Ministry of Heavy Industry and the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. In 1998, it was transferred to the leadership of Shandong Province and implemented a management system of "central and local co-construction, with local management as the main focus". It has successively gone through the periods of Shandong Metallurgical Institute and Qingdao Institute of Architecture and Engineering, and was renamed Qingdao University of Technology in 2004. It began to recruit undergraduate students in 1960, was approved as a master's degree-granting institution in 1993, and was approved as a doctoral degree-granting institution in 2005.

The school currently has three campuses in Shibei, Huangdao, and Linyi, covering an area of ​​about 2.1715 million square meters, and the building area of ​​the school is about 1.112 million square meters. The library has a collection of about 2.4182 million books. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is about 481 million yuan.

The school has a complete talent training system for undergraduates, masters, and doctors, covering 7 major disciplines such as science, engineering, economics, management, literature, law, and art. It has 2 first-level discipline postdoctoral research mobile stations, 2 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 21 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 11 master's degree authorized majors (categories), 59 undergraduate majors; 34,339 full-time students. 3 disciplines were selected as provincial first-class disciplines (including cultivation), civil engineering was approved as a provincial peak discipline, and mechanical engineering was approved as a provincial advantage and characteristic discipline. Engineering ESI ranks in the top 1% globally; 12 majors are selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 23 majors are selected as first-class major construction sites in Shandong Province. The school has 5 national-level teaching and research platforms, including the Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Base (National 111 Plan), the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, and the National and Local Joint Engineering Center. It has 26 provincial and ministerial-level research platforms and 4 collaborative innovation centers, including the Ministry of Education, Shandong Engineering Research Center, and Key Laboratories.

The school currently has 2,469 faculty and staff, including 1,654 full-time teachers, 746 with doctoral degrees, and 825 senior professional and technical personnel. There is one full-time foreign academician of the Japan Academy of Engineering, one foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Natural Sciences, one academician of the Royal Society of Arts and Crafts, and five dual-appointed academicians; seven Changjiang Scholars, national engineering talents, and 7 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, and 33 other high-level talents at the national level; 65 provincial talents such as Taishan Scholars, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Shandong Province.

The school adheres to open education, has established inter-school exchanges and cooperation relations with more than 90 well-known universities at home and abroad, and has been approved for 4 Sino-foreign cooperative education projects. It cooperates with 239 local governments, enterprises, universities and research institutes in China in all aspects in talent training, scientific research, social services and other fields.

The school adheres to its original mission. Over the past 60 years since its establishment, it has trained 240,000 talents in science, engineering, technology and management for the country. The employment rate, employment quality and employer satisfaction of graduates have always been among the best in the province. Serving the national strategy, a number of research results have been applied to major projects such as plateau trains, C919 large aircraft, Beijing Winter Olympics, lunar exploration projects, and Tianwen-1. It has promoted the high-quality development of Shandong Province's industries and provided scientific and technological and talent support in the construction of major projects such as Jiaodong International Airport, coastal high-speed railways, cross-sea bridges, and undersea tunnels.

The school fulfills its social responsibilities and supports the development of the Yimeng Revolutionary Old Area. In 2006, the Linyi Campus was established, and majors urgently needed for the economic and social development of the old area were set up to cultivate applied engineering and technical talents. There are currently 8,554 students on campus, and a total of 27,558 talents of various types have been trained. It has made contributions to the development of the revolutionary old area and embodied the responsibility of science and engineering.

The school implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, upholds the spirit of science and engineering of "perseverance, fortitude, and courage to bear heavy loads", adheres to characteristic development, connotation development, and innovative development, cultivates high-quality talents with high quality, is based in Shandong, faces the whole country, and serves economic and social development. Standing at a new historical position, science and engineering people are shouldering new social responsibilities and historical missions, and are marching forward towards the goal of building a distinctive high-level applied research university. (Updated in September 2021)