Guangdong University of Science and Technology

Guangdong University of Science and Technology was founded in 2003. It is a full-time regular undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education, with engineering as its main discipline and coordinated development of management, economics, literature, art and other disciplines. It is located in Dongguan, an important node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and has two campuses in Nancheng and Songshan Lake, covering an area of more than 2,000 mu. The school was upgraded to a bachelor's degree-granting institution with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2011. In 2015, it was granted the right to confer bachelor's degrees. In 2018, it passed the qualified assessment of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. In 2021, it was successfully selected as a project construction unit for master's degree conferral in Guangdong Province and was approved to establish a doctoral workstation in Guangdong Province. In 2024, the new round of the Ministry of Education's undergraduate education and teaching review and evaluation work will be completed with high quality. The school has 11 secondary colleges and currently has over 34,700 full-time students.

Since its establishment, the school has set the development vision of "building a century-old institution and cultivating industrial elites" and the school motto of "Upholding virtue, valuing learning, excelling in art, and being diligent in practice". It fully implements the educational philosophy of "student-centered, talent-oriented, application-oriented, harmonious innovation, and pursuit of excellence" and the educational concept of "moral education first, ability emphasis, unity of knowledge and action, courage to innovate, and all-round development". It has also clearly defined the educational positioning system, namely the educational goal positioning of "a high-level applied innovative university" and the educational level positioning of "focusing on undergraduate education and appropriately launching professional degree master's degree education". The service orientation is positioned as "based in Dongguan, facing the Greater Bay Area, and serving the urban construction of 'science and technology innovation + advanced manufacturing' in Dongguan, the construction of the 'Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor', and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area".

The school closely aligns with the key development industries in the Dongguan area to optimize its discipline and professional system. At present, a total of 47 undergraduate programs and 13 junior college programs are offered. The discipline of software engineering is a provincial key cultivation discipline, and the software engineering major is a national first-class major construction point. Three majors, including Network Engineering, have been selected as the construction points of first-class undergraduate majors in Guangdong Province. Three majors, including Clothing Design and Engineering, are provincial characteristic cultivation majors. Three majors, including Automotive Service Engineering, are provincial comprehensive reform pilot majors. Ten majors, including Mechatronic Engineering, have passed the IEET Engineering and Technology Education accreditation. Fifteen majors, including e-commerce, are currently undergoing the ACBSP international business professional accreditation. Twenty-two courses have been shortlisted as provincial first-class courses. The school actively promotes the reform of the talent cultivation model, deepens school-enterprise cooperation, and has been approved for a total of 94 projects of the Ministry of Education's industry-university cooperation and collaborative education. We have jointly established 12 industry colleges with well-known enterprises and industry associations such as Huawei, Siemens and Tencent Cloud, among which 2 have been recognized as provincial-level demonstration industry colleges by the Department of Education of Guangdong Province. We have also cooperated to set up 96 innovation classes. The school has been recognized by the Ministry of Education as a special training base for "Everyone Can Access Online Learning Spaces" and an outstanding school in the application and popularization activities of online learning Spaces.

The school has fully implemented the "talent-driven school" strategy and formed a sufficient number of high-quality teaching staff. At present, the proportion of full-time teachers with master's degrees or above has reached 93.01%, and 30 teachers have successively received honorary titles such as "Outstanding Teacher of South China". In recent years, the school's teachers have published 11,906 academic papers in various academic journals, among which over 1,500 are in the four major retrieval systems and Chinese core journals. More than 568 scientific research awards at or above the municipal and departmental levels have been obtained. Published over 361 textbooks and academic works; He/She has presided over more than 500 scientific research projects at or above the municipal and departmental level, including projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences. The school has consecutively won the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award for the 8th, 9th and 10th sessions. In the fifth and sixth Guangdong Province University (Undergraduate) Young Teachers' Teaching Competition, a total of 2 first prizes, 7 second prizes and 9 third prizes were won.

The school has been continuously strengthening the cultivation of its educational characteristics and has formed a "big ideological and political education" pattern featuring "Party committee leadership, Party and government unity, division of labor and collaboration, classroom support, and full participation". It actively cultivates its educational characteristics in six aspects, namely, the student development feature of "all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor", and the talent cultivation feature of "matching people with positions, teaching students in accordance with their aptitudes, and classified cultivation". The application-oriented discipline and major characteristics of "rooted in industries, aligning with standards, strengthening application, and collaborative innovation", the innovation and entrepreneurship education characteristics of "full coverage of innovation education, advanced integration of entrepreneurship education, and combination of innovation and entrepreneurship practice", the international education characteristics of "open symbiosis and win-win cooperation", and the campus culture characteristics with "freedom, inclusiveness, exploration, and excellence" at their core Actively build a high-quality talent cultivation system. After years of accumulation, the quality of talent cultivation in the school has steadily improved, and the comprehensive quality of students has been continuously enhanced. It has a wide influence in professional fields such as the "China International College Students Innovation Competition", "Challenge Cup", China College Students Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition, and National College Students Intelligent Car Competition. In high-level sports events such as the National University Games, the National University Basketball League, and the Guangdong Province University Orienteering Championship, they have achieved remarkable results, winning over a hundred singles championships on average each year. This has demonstrated the spirit of the majority of students who are brave in striving, positive and upward, as well as their profound and solid professional foundation. The undergraduate admission score line of the school has been rising year by year, the number of students who have passed the postgraduate entrance examination has been increasing year by year, and the employment rate has reached over 97%. The school has successively established exchange and cooperation relations with over 40 universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea and other countries as well as in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. It has carried out joint training programs such as "3+1" and "2+2", focusing on enhancing students' cross-cultural abilities. Establish a special fund for study Tours to Hong Kong and Macao, and actively attract international students. In recent years, nearly 500 outstanding students have been admitted to master's programs at world-class universities such as the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.

Guangdong University of Science and Technology was founded in 2003. It is a full-time regular undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education, with engineering as its main discipline and coordinated development of management, economics, literature, art and other disciplines. It is located in Dongguan, an important node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and has two campuses in Nancheng and Songshan Lake, covering an area of more than 2,000 mu. The school was upgraded to a bachelor's degree-granting institution with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2011. In 2015, it was granted the right to confer bachelor's degrees. In 2018, it passed the qualified assessment of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. In 2021, it was successfully selected as a project construction unit for master's degree conferral in Guangdong Province and was approved to establish a doctoral workstation in Guangdong Province. In 2024, the new round of the Ministry of Education's undergraduate education and teaching review and evaluation work will be completed with high quality. The school has 11 secondary colleges and currently has over 34,700 full-time students.

Since its establishment, the school has set the development vision of "building a century-old institution and cultivating industrial elites" and the school motto of "Upholding virtue, valuing learning, excelling in art, and being diligent in practice". It fully implements the educational philosophy of "student-centered, talent-oriented, application-oriented, harmonious innovation, and pursuit of excellence" and the educational concept of "moral education first, ability emphasis, unity of knowledge and action, courage to innovate, and all-round development". It has also clearly defined the educational positioning system, namely the educational goal positioning of "a high-level applied innovative university" and the educational level positioning of "focusing on undergraduate education and appropriately launching professional degree master's degree education". The service orientation is positioned as "based in Dongguan, facing the Greater Bay Area, and serving the urban construction of 'science and technology innovation + advanced manufacturing' in Dongguan, the construction of the 'Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor', and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area".

The school closely aligns with the key development industries in the Dongguan area to optimize its discipline and professional system. At present, a total of 47 undergraduate programs and 13 junior college programs are offered. The discipline of software engineering is a provincial key cultivation discipline, and the software engineering major is a national first-class major construction point. Three majors, including Network Engineering, have been selected as the construction points of first-class undergraduate majors in Guangdong Province. Three majors, including Clothing Design and Engineering, are provincial characteristic cultivation majors. Three majors, including Automotive Service Engineering, are provincial comprehensive reform pilot majors. Ten majors, including Mechatronic Engineering, have passed the IEET Engineering and Technology Education accreditation. Fifteen majors, including e-commerce, are currently undergoing the ACBSP international business professional accreditation. Twenty-two courses have been shortlisted as provincial first-class courses. The school actively promotes the reform of the talent cultivation model, deepens school-enterprise cooperation, and has been approved for a total of 94 projects of the Ministry of Education's industry-university cooperation and collaborative education. We have jointly established 12 industry colleges with well-known enterprises and industry associations such as Huawei, Siemens and Tencent Cloud, among which 2 have been recognized as provincial-level demonstration industry colleges by the Department of Education of Guangdong Province. We have also cooperated to set up 96 innovation classes. The school has been recognized by the Ministry of Education as a special training base for "Everyone Can Access Online Learning Spaces" and an outstanding school in the application and popularization activities of online learning Spaces.

The school has fully implemented the "talent-driven school" strategy and formed a sufficient number of high-quality teaching staff. At present, the proportion of full-time teachers with master's degrees or above has reached 93.01%, and 30 teachers have successively received honorary titles such as "Outstanding Teacher of South China". In recent years, the school's teachers have published 11,906 academic papers in various academic journals, among which over 1,500 are in the four major retrieval systems and Chinese core journals. More than 568 scientific research awards at or above the municipal and departmental levels have been obtained. Published over 361 textbooks and academic works; He/She has presided over more than 500 scientific research projects at or above the municipal and departmental level, including projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences. The school has consecutively won the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award for the 8th, 9th and 10th sessions. In the fifth and sixth Guangdong Province University (Undergraduate) Young Teachers' Teaching Competition, a total of 2 first prizes, 7 second prizes and 9 third prizes were won.

The school has been continuously strengthening the cultivation of its educational characteristics and has formed a "big ideological and political education" pattern featuring "Party committee leadership, Party and government unity, division of labor and collaboration, classroom support, and full participation". It actively cultivates its educational characteristics in six aspects, namely, the student development feature of "all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor", and the talent cultivation feature of "matching people with positions, teaching students in accordance with their aptitudes, and classified cultivation". The application-oriented discipline and major characteristics of "rooted in industries, aligning with standards, strengthening application, and collaborative innovation", the innovation and entrepreneurship education characteristics of "full coverage of innovation education, advanced integration of entrepreneurship education, and combination of innovation and entrepreneurship practice", the international education characteristics of "open symbiosis and win-win cooperation", and the campus culture characteristics with "freedom, inclusiveness, exploration, and excellence" at their core Actively build a high-quality talent cultivation system. After years of accumulation, the quality of talent cultivation in the school has steadily improved, and the comprehensive quality of students has been continuously enhanced. It has a wide influence in professional fields such as the "China International College Students Innovation Competition", "Challenge Cup", China College Students Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition, and National College Students Intelligent Car Competition. In high-level sports events such as the National University Games, the National University Basketball League, and the Guangdong Province University Orienteering Championship, they have achieved remarkable results, winning over a hundred singles championships on average each year. This has demonstrated the spirit of the majority of students who are brave in striving, positive and upward, as well as their profound and solid professional foundation. The undergraduate admission score line of the school has been rising year by year, the number of students who have passed the postgraduate entrance examination has been increasing year by year, and the employment rate has reached over 97%. The school has successively established exchange and cooperation relations with over 40 universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea and other countries as well as in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. It has carried out joint training programs such as "3+1" and "2+2", focusing on enhancing students' cross-cultural abilities. Establish a special fund for study Tours to Hong Kong and Macao, and actively attract international students. In recent years, nearly 500 outstanding students have been admitted to master's programs at world-class universities such as the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.