Founded in 1956, Guangdong University of Technology is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the metropolis of Guangzhou (population range of over 5,000,000 inhabitants), Guangdong. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Department of Education, Guangdong Province, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) is a very large (uniRank enrollment range: over-45,000 students) coeducational higher education institution. Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. International students are welcome to apply for enrollment.

Guangdong University of Technology was formed by the merger of the former Guangdong Institute of Technology, Guangdong Institute of Machinery and South China Institute of Construction (East Institute) in June 1995. The school has a 60-year history of running a school. It is a provincial key university based on work, a combination of science, engineering, economics, management, law, and art, and a multi-disciplinary coordinated development. It is a key university in Guangdong's high-level universities.

The school is located in Guangzhou, a famous city in the south of China, with an advantageous geographical location. The campus covers a total area of ​​3,066.67 acres, and has multiple campuses such as University City, Dongfeng Road, and Longdong. The university town campus highlights the characteristics of engineering, multiple disciplines promote the coordinated development of each other, and create multiple collaborative innovation platforms. The Dongfeng Road Campus highlights the creation of an atmosphere of artistic creativity and social worker services, and has a design and creative park and a result exhibition hall. The Longdong Campus highlights the creation of a management and philosophical atmosphere, creating a garden-like campus with a beautiful environment and tranquility.

At present, the school has a total of 20 colleges, 4 public course teaching departments (centers), 5 post-doctoral research stations, 4 provincial first-level key disciplines, 6 first-level disciplines with key disciplines in the province, 5 Provincial characteristic key disciplines second-level disciplines, 7 first-level disciplines doctoral degree authorization points, 31 second-level disciplines doctoral degree authorization points, 23 first-level disciplines master degree authorization points, 92 second-level disciplines master degree authorization points, with engineering (17 fields), eight major professional degree awarding powers in business administration, engineering management, accounting, translation, social work, finance, and arts. At the same time, people with equivalent academic ability can apply for master's degree awarding powers. The school has 76 undergraduate majors and 53 enrollment majors (classes). The four disciplines of machinery, information, materials and chemical engineering are the key construction disciplines of the "211 Project" in Guangdong Province. In 2015, the school as a whole entered the ranks of high-level universities and high-tech universities in Guangdong province. At present, 5 disciplines including engineering, materials science, computer science, chemistry and environmental science / ecology have entered the top 1% of ESI global discipline rankings, of which engineering has entered the top 2.3 ‰.

The school puts forward the development idea of ​​"with a more emancipated mind, a more open attitude, a more innovative system and mechanism, a more diligent and pragmatic work style, gathering innovative talents at home and abroad, multi-model construction of an innovation platform, creating an innovative atmosphere, and training innovative talents". , Comprehensively implement major strategies such as college students' innovation action plan, postgraduate top-notch innovative talent cultivation plan, postgraduate high-quality students “Qianmiao plan”, and strong teacher engineering. In recent years, the school has developed rapidly in terms of teaching staff, scientific research innovation, and personnel training, with remarkable results.

The school attaches great importance to the construction of the teaching staff, and has successively launched the "hundred-person plan", the "hundred-hundred-person plan", the "education plan for educating talents", and the "training abroad study plan". The school has the right to self-assessment of professional titles. There are more than 2,000 full-time teachers, including more than 300 senior professional titles and about 700 deputy senior professional titles. At present, the school has 80 national talents including full-time academicians, "Yangtze River Scholars", "Jieqing", "Excellent Youth", and "New Century Excellent Talents" of the Ministry of Education. There were 99 provincial-level talents, and 4 foreign academicians and 4 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering were also employed. They have been formed and selected into 9 “Innovation Teams” in Guangdong Province. The construction of high-quality teachers has provided strong support for school talent training. At present, there are more than 44,000 full-time students, including more than 36,000 undergraduates and more than 7,000 graduate students. It has recruited students with different levels of adult education, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan students and foreign students. It has formed a complete bachelor-master-doctoral talent training system. .

The school insists on scientific research, stands for intensive integration with the industry, and continuously strengthens the overall strength of scientific research. The school has one national and local joint engineering laboratory, one national and local joint engineering research center, one modern service industry industrial agglomeration base of the National Development and Reform Commission, one key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and one international cooperation joint laboratory of the Ministry of Education. Guangdong Province has more than 70 key laboratories and other provincial scientific research platforms. In 2017, the school published 2,166 applications for invention patents, ranking eighth in China's universities. In 2018, the school's National Natural Science Foundation project exceeded 154, ranking 60th in the country's universities. In the past five years, the school's scientific research achievements have won one second prize of national scientific and technological progress, eight first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, four outstanding Chinese patent awards, and outstanding scientific research awards of higher education institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences) 1 item, 3 first-class awards of Guangdong Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.

In addition, the school has jointly established the “Guangzhou National Modern Service Industry Integrated Circuit Design Industrialization Base”, “Dongguan South China Design and Innovation Institute”, “Foshan Guangdong University of Technology Collaborative Innovation Research Institute”, and “Heyuan Guangdong University of Technology” Multi-disciplinary collaborative innovation platforms such as “Research Institute”, “Huizhou Guangzhou University of Technology IoT Collaborative Innovation Research Institute”, “Yunfu Innovation Design Center”, “Dongyuan University of Science and Technology Modern Industry Collaborative Innovation Institute”, etc. The extension center was launched, and 600 million yuan was invested to fund the construction of the center. At present, the school is working hard to build a high-level research and development platform in high-end equipment, IC design, industrial design, advanced materials, environmental ecology, biopharmaceuticals, soft substances and other fields, and promote the production, learning, research and collaborative innovation to achieve substantial results.

The school is committed to cultivating talents with an international perspective, a solid foundation and innovative ability. There are 7 majors of outstanding engineer education training programs in the Ministry of Education, 7 national specialty specialty construction sites, 1 national specialty comprehensive reform pilot specialty, 8 majors that have passed the certification / assessment by the Ministry of Education, 18 provincial specialty majors, 13 Guangdong Province Famous Brand Majors, 5 Provincial Key Majors, 16 Provincial Major Comprehensive Reform Pilot Majors; 3 National Excellent Courses (including bilingual teaching demonstration courses), 93 Provincial Excellent Courses (including bilingual teaching demonstration courses) ; 7 national engineering practice education centers, 2 national graduate joint training demonstration bases, 1 national college student practical teaching base, 38 provincial college student practical teaching bases; 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 country Level virtual simulation experiment teaching center, 24 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers; 1 national teaching team. In 2013-2017, China's universities ranked 39th in the nation for innovative talent training and subject competition evaluation (undergraduate). The school has good conditions for running schools, with 14,860 sets of computers, and total fixed assets of teaching and scientific research equipment of 1.336 billion yuan. The school building covers an area of ​​more than 1.56 million square meters. The library has a total of 3.737 million books and 2.246 million electronic books, and adopts a sharing method, which has greatly expanded the use of information resources through multiple channels. The school started from the change of students' concept of talents, exploratoryly implemented the reform of the training plan of “emphasis on foundation, strong ability, wide vision, diversity, and responsibility”, and focused on exploring the focus on cultivating innovative entrepreneurship and practical ability. The new model and new ideas for talent training combined with the whole process of production, teaching and research, meanwhile, the talent training (especially the undergraduate training) is included in the high-level technological innovation platform construction plan.

The school attaches great importance to foreign cooperation and exchanges, and has specifically established overseas (border) study abroad funds and overseas study funds to promote international cooperation and exchange strategies with "subjects as the main body", and promote disciplines and teams with high-level universities abroad Scientific research institutions and multinational corporations establish strategic partnerships, build cooperation platforms, connect with world-class technology, and introduce world-class talent. The school attaches great importance to serving the country's "Belt and Road" initiative, strengthening the training of international talents, and supporting students from countries along the "Belt and Road" to study in China and provide technical training. The school has established cooperative relationships with more than 150 universities and institutions abroad (foreign), carried out multi-faceted cooperation such as cooperative schooling, joint student training, teacher training, teaching model reform, cooperative scientific research, talent introduction and platform construction, and promoted the construction of key disciplines. Entering the international frontier, providing a good platform for the internationalization of the school's teaching staff, the internationalization of talent training and the internationalization of scientific research. The school was selected by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and the Ministry of Education's "Innovation and Induction Program for Disciplines in Colleges and Universities" ("111 Plan").

Through a series of innovative measures, the comprehensive quality and innovative ability of students have been continuously improved, and students have continuously set new records in various national science and technology innovation competitions and cultural sports competitions. From 2013 to 2017, the school won the "Outstanding Cup" in the "Challenge Cup" national university student extracurricular academic science and technology works competition for three consecutive years. In 2015 and 2017, our student team won two special awards; in 2012 -In 2016, the school won the gold medal in the "Creating Youth" National College Student Entrepreneurship Competition (formerly known as the "Challenge Cup" Chinese College Student Entrepreneurship Competition) for three consecutive years; in 2017, our school's FSAE team won the overall results of the China University Student Formula Car Competition 1st place; in 2018, our students won 18 first prizes in the American University Student Mathematical Modeling Competition; in 2017-2018, our students won 1 RED DOT (red dot) design award in Germany and IF DEGIGN TALENT AWAARD award 4 items; in the past five years, 3 college students have won the 7th, 10th, and 11th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Awards; the school basketball team has won the National Super League Championship for three consecutive years, and in 2011 won the Eighth Asian University Basketball Championship; in recent years, students have won first prizes in national college student art performances in collective projects of vocal, instrumental and dance, and national college students Gold medal of quality education art brand and more than 50 items.

The school fully implements the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, guided by Xi Jinping's thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions to Guangdong's important instructions, unswervingly followed the connotative development path, and continuously improved the level and quality of schooling To work hard to build a high-level university with distinctive characteristics that is mainly based on industry, deeply integrated with the industry, and highly creative