Located in the breathtaking west side of Beijing, North China University of Technology has a long history and people of great talent come out in multitude from this institute of higher education. First founded in 1946, now NCUT has developed into a multidisciplinary university centered on engineering and compatible both in arts and science, possessing multiple education levels including bachelor, master and PhD and authorized degree qualifications. Co-established by Beijing and central government, NCUT is administrated mainly by Beijing. With an enrollment of more than 15000 students, the university has more than 10000 full time undergraduate students, 2000 graduate students, 3000 students studying at the College of Continuing Education, 800 international students, and more than 1000 faculty and staff. It is one of the most beautiful universities in Beijing with an area of 500 hectares and 400 thousand square meters of overall floorage.
The university has been focused on talent cultivation and improving education quality, forming the education characteristic of individualized teaching, quality-oriented, and all-round development. The university assumes the responsibility of cultivating high-level application-oriented talents with strong practical capabilities and attempt with great efforts to improve students’ technology application abilities and practical operation abilities. Upholding the philosophy of human-oriented and individualized teaching, NCUT has constructed the Talents Cultivation System of stratified teaching, distributary cultivation and classified talents with over ten years’ efforts. As a state-level innovated experimental area of talent cultivation, the university implements flexible credit system, stratified and distributary teaching system and autonomously changing majors system and build up high informationalized teaching and management system and humanized students service system, satisfying students’ demands for autonomous study, all-round development and individualized growth. As university students’ culture and quality education base of nation and Beijing, the university has constantly stressed on students’ scientific quality and human spirit cultivation. NCUT is the first civilized campus with the first art museum among the national colleges of science and engineering, as well as the first to open compulsory courses such as College Chinese and College Aesthetic Education and other courses. The Four Big Festivals including Students’ Culture, Art, Science and Physical Education have been held continually for over thirty years, evolving into the campus’ cultural brands.
NCUT has a complete range of disciplines with strong scientific research strength with seven disciplines involving science, engineering, literature, economy, management, law and arts. It has a multi-disciplinary university that combines the natural sciences and engineering with liberal arts, economics, management and law. There is a PhD talents cultivation project for serving national special demands, 19 Primary Discipline Master Degree programs which focus on academic research with three years study, involving 59 second grade disciplinary authorized master degrees, 15 authorized professional master degrees and 3 second authorized bachelor degrees, 3 state special majors, 5 municipal special majors of Beijing and 9 provincial key labs or engineering research centers.. The university has the qualification to recommend undergraduate students to pursue master degree study without attending the National Entrance Examination for Postgraduate Study.. Centered on enhancing the self innovation ability of scientific and research, the university voluntarily serves the needs of national and social development, attaches importance to scientific innovation, thus achieving remarkable results in high-tech development and application research and its industrialization production and forming comparative advantages in some areas. Recently, the university has won 6 second prizes in National Scientific and Technological Progress, 1 Lu Xun Literary Award, and over 50 provincial awards, being a vital collage base for capital scientific and technical development..
NCUT carries out the opening-up education strategy and has established inter-college partnerships with over 60 universities and colleges from four continents such as Asia, Europe, America and Australia, involving USA, Japan, German, Britain, France, Russia, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, etc. holding many cooperation and exchange activities in teaching, scientific cooperation, students’ exchange and joined cultivation. It offers chances for students to participate in the international exchange programs and receive internationalized education. Several hundred students are recommended and picked up to go to USA, Britain, Japan and other countries to study and communicate and thus give them the chance to get the overseas’ bachelor and master degree through the project of double degrees. NCUT also provides high quality education courses and humanistic services for oversea students. There are over 800 international students
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