Shenzhen University of Science and Technology

Shenzhen University of Science and Technology of China and Moscow State University is a Sino-foreign cooperative university with independent legal personality established by the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, Beijing Institute of Technology and Lomonosov Moscow State University (referred to as "Moscow University"), with the important consensus reached by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The school aims to build a world-class international comprehensive research university with unique characteristics, and is committed to carrying out elite education and high-level scientific research and innovation activities. In October 2016, the school was officially established with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2017, the school enrolled the first batch of undergraduates and master's students, in 2018 enrolled the first batch of doctoral students, and in 2020 was approved as a postdoctoral innovation practice base.

The school is located at No. 1, International University Park Road, Longgang District, Shenzhen, covering an area of ​​333,700 square meters. It was built with an investment of 2.043 billion yuan by the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. The campus is close to Shenxianling and Longkou Reservoir, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and has a beautiful environment. There are 21 buildings in total, including the main building, two laboratory buildings, three teaching buildings, as well as libraries, gymnasiums, student activity centers, student dormitories, and teacher apartments. The main building standing in the central square is very similar to the main building of Moscow University and is a landmark building on the campus. The main building is 156 meters high, and the five-pointed star on the top is known as the "Shenbei Mo Star".

1. Guiding Ideology

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, fully implement the Party's educational policy, take moral education as the foundation, and talent training quality as the core. Facing the world's scientific and technological frontiers and major national needs, we will cooperate for win-win results and innovative development, strive to build a high-level university, cultivate high-quality innovative talents, and produce high-level academic achievements, and serve the construction of the "Belt and Road", the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between China and Russia in the new era, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Shenzhen Socialist Pilot Demonstration Zone.

2. School Positioning

Build a unique, world-class comprehensive research university, create a highland and important platform for Sino-Russian cultural exchanges and cooperation, and contribute to deepening Sino-Russian educational cooperation and enhancing the friendship between the two peoples.

Cultivate high-quality innovative talents who respect morality and reason, study hard, love literature and love, innovate and collaborate, take on missions, understand Chinese and Russian culture, master Chinese, Russian and English, and are proficient in their professions. Carry out undergraduate, master and doctoral multi-level academic education and non-academic education.

Adhere to the talent training concept of "morality as the foundation, culture as the soul, academic as the basis, and practice as the source", establish a high-level talent training system of "cultural nourishment, scientific education, and innovative practice", build a Sino-Russian collaborative education community, and strengthen the quality assurance of the whole process.

Give full play to the disciplinary advantages of the two schools and the regional scientific and technological advantages, build world-class basic disciplines and internationally leading frontier cross-disciplinary engineering and technology disciplines, establish a world-class international scientific research center, scientific and technological innovation platform and collaborative innovation community, carry out high-level basic research and technological innovation activities, and create academic achievements with significant international influence and leading position.

III. School characteristics

The development of the school is closely integrated with the national strategy and the comprehensive strategic cooperation between China and Russia. The school introduces and absorbs the advanced educational concepts, teaching content, teaching methods and disciplinary advantages of the two schools, and integrates them to form the basic characteristics of high starting point, internationalization, comprehensiveness and characteristics.

Introduce Chinese and Russian culture into the whole process of education, teaching and scientific research, and form a unique university culture with organic integration of science and culture and dual-driven interaction of practice and innovation.

Adhering to the education concept of education-oriented, the curriculum system is set up around the value shaping, knowledge cultivation and ability cultivation of students. Give full play to the advantages of Moscow State University in basic disciplines to cultivate students' solid scientific theoretical foundation; give full play to the advantages of Beijing Institute of Technology in engineering and technology disciplines to cultivate students' practical innovation ability.

Carry out elite education. Use Chinese, Russian and English to teach, with Russian as the main language. The Russian language course adopts an immersive teaching method to enable students to quickly and deeply master Russian language knowledge and ability. Build a "big ideological and political" education pattern, develop quality education, focus on scientific foundations, and strengthen innovative practice. Use small classes to carry out research-based, seminar-based, heuristic, case-based, and practical classroom teaching.

IV. Talent Training

The school takes high-end education as the direction of education development, and carries out undergraduate, master's and doctoral education as well as non-academic education. The school's long-term school scale is 5,000 people, and the ratio of undergraduates to postgraduates is 1:1. The school has enrolled undergraduates and postgraduates since 2017, and doctoral students since 2018. The school uses Chinese, Russian and English for teaching. The domestic undergraduate admissions break the traditional admissions system of one exam for life and adopt the "631 comprehensive evaluation" model based on the college entrance examination.

The school currently has about 1,340 students. The first undergraduate graduates in 2021 totaled 100 (including 4 international students), of which 16 students received the "red book" graduation certificate from Moscow University. 86% of Chinese undergraduate graduates went on to study in well-known universities at home and abroad. As of the end of 2021, 17 of the 30 students who went to Moscow University to study have obtained the qualification of the National Scholarship Fund for Study Abroad.

V. Disciplines and Majors

Relying on the basic disciplines of Moscow University in Russia and the engineering application of Beijing Institute of Technology in China, the school combines the strategic needs of national science and technology development and the characteristics of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen's science and technology industry clusters, highlights the high starting point, internationalization and comprehensive school-running characteristics, promotes cross-disciplinary integration and reasonable layout, and creates a national talent training base for Sino-Russian cultural, educational and scientific and technological cooperation and the "Belt and Road" and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area regional economic and social development. The school currently has 9 undergraduate majors, 9 master's disciplines, 11 professional directions, and 2 doctoral disciplines. Among them, 4 undergraduate majors, including Russian, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering, and International Economics and Trade, have been selected as first-class undergraduate major construction sites in Guangdong Province. In 2021, the school was selected as a key discipline construction university in the new round of high-level universities in Guangdong Province, and 4 disciplines, including mathematics, materials science and engineering, biology, and applied economics, were selected as key construction disciplines in Guangdong Province.

Undergraduate majors

The school currently offers 9 undergraduate majors: Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering, Economics, Chemistry, Russian, Biological Sciences, Electronics and Computer Engineering, International Economics and Trade, and Chinese; a number of natural science, engineering, and art majors will be opened soon.

Graduate majors

The school currently offers 11 master's majors, including applied mathematics and information technology, basic materials science, nanobiotechnology, earth ecological changes and artificial intervention systems, international economics and business, Russian language and culture, Russian language teaching for foreigners, urban ecology and regional planning, international economic (business) law, national auditing and inorganic chemistry; 2 doctoral majors, Russian language and literature, and biology, all implement the training program of Moscow University.

International student training

The school attaches great importance to the creation of a diversified international education environment. Since the first year of enrollment, there have been international students enrolled. At present, the proportion of international degree students in school exceeds 10%, and the proportion of Chinese students with overseas study and exchange experience exceeds 60%. The school adopts a management model for international students that is integrated with domestic students. The teaching process, accommodation management, cultural and sports activities, etc. are consistent with those of Chinese students, so that Chinese and foreign students have sufficient contact and communication.

VI. Scientific Research

Based on the needs of Shenzhen's construction of a socialist demonstration zone with Chinese characteristics and the development of science and technology industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and relying on the advantages of basic scientific research at Moscow State University and engineering research at Beijing Institute of Technology, the school is starting to establish a computational mathematics and control research center, a chemistry and materials research center, a modern biology frontier science research center, a frontier cross-technology research center, a Sino-Russian comparative law research center, and SMBU-Sistema cooperative basic laboratories and SMBU-Roscosmos cooperative basic laboratories.

According to the development plan of Shenzhen's regional economic development and the science and technology industry development plan of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the school plans to focus on artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, new energy and smart society, big data and information security, new materials and intelligent manufacturing, earth science and marine engineering, aerospace and aviation engineering, environment and ecology, health and biomedical engineering, etc.

VII. Faculty

The school currently has 348 faculty and staff, including 232 teachers and scientific researchers, 116 management and teaching assistants, and 188 foreign faculty and staff. More than 85% of full-time teachers have doctoral degrees, and more than 70% have associate professor titles or above.

The school currently has 9 academicians or corresponding academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences participating in the school's teaching and research work, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 3 national talent special projects, 16 Shenzhen talent special projects, and 4 provincial and municipal outstanding teachers; an international teaching team mainly composed of teachers from Moscow University has been formed, with a student-teacher ratio of less than 10:1.

The school has launched a global talent recruitment campaign, focusing on introducing internationally renowned academic masters, leading talents and outstanding young teachers, actively forming a high-level academic team led by well-known Russian scholars and international academic masters, and striving to build a world-class teaching team.