Hunan University of Arts and Science | Chinese Universities

Hunan University of Arts and Science is a full-time general undergraduate college sponsored by the Hunan Provincial People's Government. The school is located in the National Civilized City, International Wetland City, National Sanitation City, China's Excellent Tourist City, "City in the Peach Blossom Spring"-Changde City, Hunan Province.

The school began as Changde Teachers College, founded in 1958. In 1999, the former Changde Teachers College and the former Changde College merged to form Changde Teachers College, which was upgraded to an undergraduate college. In 2003, it became its current name. The Changde Branch of Hunan Agricultural College, Changde Education College, Changde Urban and Rural Construction Vocational Technical School, and Changde Art School have their respective disciplines and professional advantages. Up to now, they have 63 years of history of higher education. In 2016, the school was identified as a national "production-education integration engineering application-oriented undergraduate planning university", in 2017 it was identified as a new master's degree granting project construction unit, and in 2018 it was confirmed as a "double first-class" high-level application characteristic college in Hunan Province. In 2018, it passed the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education at a high level. It is a "National Model Worker's Home", "Hunan Provincial Civilized Model Unit", "Provincial Garden Unit", "Hunan Province Safe Construction Demonstration School", "Hunan Province Safe University" "Advanced University for the Construction of Modern University System in Hunan Province". Starting in 2020, the school will be transferred to a group of undergraduate colleges and universities in Hunan Province.

The school campus has a beautiful environment, covering an area of 2,000 acres, with a total school building area of more than 608,800 square meters, a teaching area of more than 284,000 square meters, and a laboratory area of more than 169,000 square meters. It has sufficient teaching and research equipment and books and documents. At present, the total value of teaching and research equipment is 338 million yuan. The library has more than 2.4 million paper books and more than 2.1 million electronic books.

The school has a complete range of disciplines, covering ten disciplines of liberal arts, sciences, engineering, agriculture, history, law, economics, management, teaching, and arts. There are 16 teaching colleges, 1 independent college, and 65 undergraduate majors (including 2 Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools). The school recruits students from 31 provinces (municipalities, autonomous regions) across the country, and currently has more than 25,500 full-time undergraduate students.

The school has a strong faculty. There are 1556 faculty members, including 1172 full-time teachers, 133 professors, and 421 Ph.D., with an ortho height ratio of 11.35% and a doctorate ratio of 35.9%. Both the ortho height ratio and the doctorate ratio rank among similar institutions in the province. Forefront. It has national, provincial and ministerial talents including national outstanding youths, chief experts of major national social science projects, leading talents in science and technology entrepreneurship of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program, candidates for the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, and candidates for the 121 innovative talents project in Hunan Province. There are more than 120 candidates for the project; 1 national-level teaching team, 8 provincial-level teaching and scientific research teams, and 1 deputy chairman of the National Education Commission.

The school’s teaching reform has continued to deepen. In the past five years, it has successively obtained more than 150 projects of teaching, research and teaching reform at or above the provincial level, including one project of “New Liberal Arts” from the Ministry of Education, and “New Liberal Arts”, “New Engineering” and “New Agricultural Science” projects at the provincial level. 5; won 18 provincial-level teaching achievement awards, including 2 first-class awards and 5 second-class awards; teachers’ teaching level has been greatly improved. In the past five years, they have won 33 provincial-level teaching competition awards, including provincial-level teaching competitions. There are 8 first prizes, 12 second prizes, and 13 third prizes.

The school's professional curriculum construction has achieved remarkable results. Now it has established 7 national first-class undergraduate majors including Chinese language and literature, geographic sciences, national characteristic majors, national comprehensive reform pilot majors and other "national" majors, as well as biological sciences, preschool education, and materials There are more than 30 provincial top-ranking undergraduate majors in science and engineering, provincial characteristic majors and other "provincial" branded majors. More than 300 high-quality courses have been completed, including one national high-quality course, one national high-quality resource sharing course, 14 provincial-level high-quality courses, 1 provincial-level ideological and political education research center, and 2 provincial-level ideological and political demonstration courses , Provincial boutique online open courses and other 41 "provincial" courses.

The school’s teaching and scientific research platform base is sufficient, independently approved as the National University Student Cultural Education Base, the National Linux Technology Training and Promotion Center, the National School-Enterprise Cooperation Talent Training Base, the National Meteorological Science Education Base, the Chinese Fisheries Society Science Education Base, and the Fisheries Postdoctoral Research Workstation There are 7 national-level teaching and scientific research platforms, 2 provincial-level "2011" collaborative innovation centers, "Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone Construction and Development" and "Efficient and Healthy Production of Aquatic Products", and "Molecular Immunization Technology for Important Aquatic Animal Diseases", etc. 5 There are four provincial key laboratories, four provincial engineering research centers including "Aquatic Product Resources and Environmental Ecology", seven provincial social science research bases including "Regional Development around Dongting Lake", and a cooperative R&D center for aquatic post-doctoral research mobile stations, There are nearly 100 other provincial and ministerial teaching and research platforms such as intellectual property centers, innovation and entrepreneurship education centers, and provincial demonstration laboratories.

Adhering to the tenet of "Scientific Research Promotes Teaching", the scientific research level has been significantly enhanced. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 100 national-level scientific research projects including major commissioned projects of the National Social Science Fund and key projects of the Spark Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The school's scientific research funding has grown rapidly, with a total funding of more than 500 million yuan, and the average annual research funding of teachers has reached 81,000 yuan. He has published more than 4,000 scientific research papers, including nearly 1,100 papers collected by SCI, SSCI, EI, CSSCI, and CSCD; successively published more than 300 academic works, of which 105 were published by national publishing houses. Has successively won 28 provincial and ministerial level and above various scientific and technological achievement awards, including 1 international platinum award and 2 provincial and ministerial first prizes; 276 authorized invention patents, more than 1,000 utility models and design rights, and software production rights , Develop 12 standards.

The employment of school graduates is distinctive and has outstanding achievements. In recent years, the initial employment rate of graduates has always been among the highest among similar universities in Hunan Province. The school has been awarded by the Ministry of Education as "National Advanced Unit for Research and Practice of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions", "National Colleges with Typical Employment Experience for Graduates", and "National Deepening of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education". "Reform characteristic typical experience colleges", and was awarded the title of "Hunan Province University Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Demonstration School" by the Hunan Provincial Department of Education, and was awarded the title of "Hunan Province Double Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, and was repeatedly named "Hunan Province College Graduates" "Excellent Unit for Leading Projects in Employment". The school's application-oriented personnel training reform experience "Hunan College of Arts and Sciences: Cultivating Applied Talents for Market Demand" was selected into the "Education System Reform Briefing" edited by the National Education System Reform Leading Group, and it was upgraded to national experience.

The school's internationalization level and international influence have been continuously improved. It has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 60 universities in the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Poland, Japan, South Korea and more than 20 countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. Among them, 11 of the world's top 500 universities have foreign-related education projects among the best in the province.