Changsha University of Science and Technology

Changsha University of Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary university with engineering as the main discipline, coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law, philosophy, and art, with undergraduate and graduate education as the main body, and with postdoctoral research mobile stations, doctoral degree awarding rights and master's degree recommendation rights. The school is a national advanced grassroots party organization, a national "basic capacity building project for colleges and universities in central and western China", one of the top 50 "innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience colleges" in the first batch, Hunan Province "domestic first-class university construction college" (Class A), Hunan Province Civilization Model Unit, and Hunan Province Rule of Law Demonstration School.

The school currently has two campuses, Jinpenling and Yuntang, with 22 teaching colleges, 1 independent college and 1 continuing education college. There are more than 41,000 full-time students, including more than 6,500 full-time doctoral and master's students. Since its establishment, the university has trained more than 400,000 senior professionals for industries such as transportation, electricity, water conservancy, light industry and regional economic and social development. The employment quality and employment rate of graduates have been at the forefront of universities in the province for many years. After more than 60 years of construction and development, the school has accumulated the school motto spirit and university culture of "erudition, practice, adherence to the truth, and innovation".

The school currently has more than 2,000 full-time teachers, including more than 300 senior titles and more than 600 associate senior titles. There are more than 30 national talents such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professors of the "Changjiang Scholars Program"; more than 30 experts who enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, and national teaching masters; 2 "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Teams"; more than 400 provincial and ministerial talents such as the Central Propaganda Department's Propaganda Ideology and Culture Young Talents, the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", the Ministry of Transportation's "Transportation Young Science and Technology Talents" and Hunan Province's Science and Technology Leading Talents, "Furong Scholars" and other provincial and ministerial talents.

The school currently has 85 undergraduate majors, including 32 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 9 national characteristic majors, 13 majors that have passed the national engineering education professional certification, and 3 Sino-foreign cooperative undergraduate education projects. It has 3 national and provincial teaching teams, 10 national first-class undergraduate courses, bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 101 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 12 national practical teaching platforms, and 59 provincial practical teaching and innovation education platforms. The school is a pilot school for the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" and an implementation school for the "Undergraduate Innovative Experimental Program" project of the Ministry of Education. In the past five years, the school has won more than 58 provincial teaching achievement awards; students have won more than 800 national-level discipline competitions and scientific and technological achievements awards, and more than 2,000 provincial-level discipline competitions and scientific and technological achievements awards. In the 2021 National College Student Competition Rankings, it ranks 22nd in the country.

The school has 6 first-class construction (cultivation) disciplines in Hunan Province, and 5 disciplines are in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking; there are 5 postdoctoral research stations, 8 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point, 29 first-level master's degree authorization points, 18 master's professional degree authorization points, and it is qualified to award master's degrees of equivalent academic qualifications.

The school has landmark scientific research achievements such as the National Science and Technology Progress First Prize. There are 4 national scientific research platforms, 13 provincial and ministerial innovation teams, 46 natural science research platforms, and 22 philosophy and social science research bases. In the past five years, the school has hosted 446 national projects such as the National Key Basic Research and Development Program Project and the National Social Science Fund Major Project; won 3 national science and technology awards, 98 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, 28 provincial social science outstanding achievement awards, and 1,260 job invention patents.

The school adheres to the principle of open education, and has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 90 colleges and universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 countries and regions. It has also established 3 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with well-known foreign universities. In recent years, it has sent more than 1,000 students abroad for exchange and study. Currently, there are more than 500 international students from 63 countries studying at the school.

Based on the new era, the school will inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of running schools, implement the strategy of "quality-based school, discipline-based school, talent-based school, and law-based school management", adhere to the principle of people-oriented education, talent aggregation, cross-innovation, service integration, and cultural guidance, and strive to build an important base for the cultivation of special talents, an important source of Hunan's scientific and technological innovation, and a frontier position for the international communication of cultural and creative industries and Hunan culture. It will actively promote the construction of "double first-class", comprehensively improve the quality of school operation and the level of education, and cultivate high-quality compound specialized talents with "bright background, strong practice, feelings, and courage to take responsibility" in all aspects of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor development, realize characteristic development, innovative development, coordinated development, and common development, and win the battle to build a "top 100" university and move towards an innovative high-level university.

(Updated April 2022)