Anhui University of Technology (AHUT) was founded in 1958. It is a multidisciplinary university with engineering as its focus, while maintaining balanced programs in science, management, humanities, economics, law and arts.
The university is located in Ma’anshan, Anhui Province, a city with titles of “National Civilized City”, “National Garden City”, “Top Quality Environment City”, “Na
Anhui University of Technology (AHUT) was founded in 1958. It is a multidisciplinary university with engineering as its focus, while maintaining balanced programs in science, management, humanities, economics, law and arts.
The university is located in Ma’anshan, Anhui Province, a city with titles of “National Civilized City”, “National Garden City”, “Top Quality Environment City”, “National Tourism City”, and with 40 kilometers to Nanjing, the “Capital City for Six Dynasties in Ancient China”.
AHUT is a key institution of higher learning in Anhui Province, one of the 100 key universities in central and western China receiving privileged support from the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE), and also a higher institution listed by MOE for implementing “Outstanding Engineering Education Plan”. Its undergraduate teaching is rated “Excellence” in MOE’s national teaching-quality assessment.
AHUT consists of 2 campuses, covering a total area of 1.64 million square meters. The university recruits students from all over the country and started to accept international students in 2001. Currently, it has 19, 574 undergraduate students, over 2,145 graduate student, and over 1,230 faculty including 600 full professors or associate professors. The university has 18 schools (or divisions) with 67 bachelor-degree programs, 59 master-degree programs, and 6 doctor-degree programs. Besides, the university has 2 national-level, 17 provincial or ministerial-level research centers or institutes, and 12 provincial-level key disciplines. The libraries on the two campuses provide access to 2.67 million collections and a variety of high quality academic databases, eJournals, and eBooks.
AHUT attaches great importance to opening up. It has cooperative ties with over 30 higher education institutions in a number of countries and regions including America, Britain, Germany, Japan, Canada, Korea, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan of China, etc.. With its international partners, the university carries out faculty and student exchange programs, student joint training programs. AHUT has also established quite a few international research centers and institutes for inter-collegial and inter-governmental scientific research projects in the fields of industrial technology, economic management, culture and education. On its way to becoming a high-level university with more distinctive features, AHUT is always ready to cooperate and exchange globally.
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