Guangdong University Of Technology

（广东工业大学）

Basic information

City: Guangzhou, Guangdong
Founded in: 1958
Type: Public University
Number of total students: 46000
Number of international students: 10
Number of faculty: 2300

About Guangzhou

Guangzhou is a sprawling port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. The city features avant-garde architecture such as Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House (known as the “double pebble”); the carved box-shaped Guangdong Museum; and the iconic Canton TV Tower skyscraper, resembling a thin hourglass. The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, a temple complex from 1894, also houses the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum. ― Google

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About Guangdong University Of Technology

Guangdong University of Technology, founded in 1958, is a multidisciplinary university specialized in engineering education. It also offers a wide range of educational programs in science, technology, management, economics, humanities, liberal arts and law. As a high-level and cutting-edge provincial university of science and technology, GDUT has been adhering for over 60 years to the concept of “Developing with Guangdong and Contributing to Guangdong”, deepening its integration with the industry and continuously promoting academic progress and research. For the first time in 2019, our university was listed in the THE (Times Higher Education) World University Rankings, and the “Top 1000” list of ARWU (Academic Rankings of World Universities). In 2020, the university ranked 51st in Chinese mainland universities in the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings and 268th among engineering universities in 2020 US News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings (45th in China).

Guangdong University of Technology is located in Guangzhou, a famous and prosperous city in southern China. We have four campuses, namely HEMC Campus, Dongfeng Road Campus, Longdong Campus, and Panyu Campus, covering a total area of 3,066.67 acres (about 1,241 hectares) with a beautiful environment. Each campus of our university has its specialty. The Guangzhou HEMC Campus highlights the dominant position of engineering; the Dongfeng Road Campus focuses on international design and creativity; the Longdong Campus is dedicated to strengthening its specialization in management, science, and social services; the Panyu Campus focuses on Sino-foreign educational cooperation programs.

At present, our university has a total of 20 schools, 4 public course teaching centers, and 6 postdoctoral mobile stations. There are more than 2,000 full-time teachers, including about 400 professors and 700 associate professors. The strong faculty system provides a powerful talent support for the rapid development of GDUT. Five disciplines, including Engineering, Materials Science, Computer Science, Chemistry, Environmental Science &Ecology, have entered the top 1% of the ESI global discipline rankings, of which Engineering has entered 1.9 %. Our complete curriculum of “Bachelor-Master-Doctor” currently has 81 majors in its undergraduate programs, 23 first-class master degree programs, and 7 first-class doctoral degree programs. There are more than 44,000 full-time students, including over 36,000 undergraduates and 7,000 postgraduates.

We comprehensively implement various talent training plans such as the “College Student Innovation Action Plan”, the “Postgraduate Top Innovative Talent Cultivation Plan”, the “Thousand Seedling Plan” to train outstanding postgraduates and the “Excellent Teacher Training Project”. In recent years, GDUT has developed rapidly and made great achievements in talent training, in building a strong faculty, in promoting scientific research and innovation and social services.

GDUT is proud to be home to world-class researchers who are making significant contributions in their specialized fields. The university counts a Key State Laboratory, a National & Local United Engineering Laboratory, a National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center and more than 70 key scientific platforms. In the past five years, GDUT has won multiple awards, including the State Science and Technology Award, the State Technological Innovation Award, and Scientific and Technological Awards at the provincial and ministerial level. The university has also won 6 national outstanding innovation awards, ranking 31st among Chinese universities.

GDUT continues to cooperate with the industrial sector, establishing several interdisciplinary collaborative innovation platforms such as the “Guangzhou National Integrated Circuit Design Industrialization Center for Modern Service Industry”, the “Foshan Nanhai GDUT CNC Equipment Cooperative Innovation Institute”, the “Dongguan South China Design Innovation Institute”. The university is committed to build high-level innovation platforms in areas such as high-end equipment, IC design, industrial design and advanced materials to help local governments achieve high-quality economic and social development. Many of our courses are industry-based, giving our students vital experience and contacts in the industries that interest them.

Fully embracing its mission to be open to international cooperation, GDUT has been strengthening its international cooperation and exchanges and established partnerships with 150 well-known universities and institutions in different countries and regions. The university attaches great importance to the “Belt and Road” initiative, encouraging students from Belt and Road countries to study in China. The university has also set up the Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Discrete Manufacturing Intelligence Joint Laboratory, an animation major (Sino-Foreign joint educational program) and 5 majors of 2+2 international class. (Mechanical Design and Manufacture and Automation, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Business Administration) The university has implemented a series of policies to improve the innovative and comprehensive ability of students. Our students have won a number of prizes in various scientific, cultural and athletic competitions:

From 2013-2019, GDUT has participated in the Challenge Cup Competition and won the Excellence Cup for four consecutive years as well as 4 grand prizes.
In 2017, the FSAE team of our university won the first place in Formula Student China.
In 2018, GUDT ranked 32nd in the ACM-ICPC (the 8th among China’s colleges).
In 2018, our students won 18 first prizes in Mathematical Contest In Modeling.
Our students also won one Red Dot Design Award and four IF Design Talents Awards in 2017 and 2018.
GDUT men’s basketball team has won the championship in CUBS in three consecutive years and won the title in the 8th Asia Man’s Basketball Championship.
In recent years, our students have won top prizes in Art Performance Activities of National College Students in terms of vocal music, instrumental music and dance.

GDUT is committed to quality teaching and learning and nurtures students’ development within a caring environment. The goal of talent cultivation is to nurture students into developing both practical skills and moral integrity. Student education is focused on applied and innovative learning to ensure that graduates are work-ready, innovative and equipped to succeed in their chosen career path. Now, standing at a new starting point, GDUT strives to become one of the best universities in China and help you to succeed in your future career.

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The International Education Center (hereinafter as IEC) is developed from the International Chinese Language Center of Guangdong University of Technology (hereinafter as GDUT). It is responsible for the enrollment, education and management of international students and the promotion of Chinese culture and degree programs.

In June 2005, under the guidance of the Ministry of Education, actively creating conditions and expanding the scale of international students in China, GDUT launched the international Chinese language training program for international students and began to explore a new path for international education development. The program had achieved initial success: In 2004, GDUT had only 8 degree student. In 2005, the university enrolled 30 non-degree and 8 degree students from Russia, Vietnam and South Korea etc.

In order to further develop international education and attract high-quality degree students, GDUT had recruited four teachers specialized in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and established the International Chinese Language Center in June 2007, focusing on degree and non-degree education of international students. After years of teaching, research and international exchanges, the International Chinese Language Center had laid a solid foundation for the further development and upgrading of international student education of GDUT.

In February 2014, with the continuous expansion and years of development, in order to better integrate the enrollment, teaching, management and service of international students, improve the management system, and ensure the quality of international education, GDUT has established IEC as the specialized organization for international education and management on the basis of International Chinese Language Center. It is responsible for the enrollment, teaching, daily management and service of international students as well as alumni association.

Since 2014, with the continuous opening of China’s higher education around the national strategy, especially after the central and Ministry of Education published the documents such as “Opinions on Doing a Good Job in the Opening of the Education in the New Era”, “Promote and co-construct the “Belt and Road” Education Action” and “Regulations for the Recruitment and Cultivation of International Students in Schools”, the university further improved the education management system for international students in China, established International Student Counselors at IEC, and set up GDUT Scholarship for international students,which has formed a diverse system of qualifications for studying in GDUT.

In September 2018, the university piloted International Economics and Trade (For International Student) English-taught course at IEC. The number of first enrollment of international degree students in the countries along “Belt and Road” was 36, which were taught in two classes. In March 2019, IEC cooperated with the specialized school to further promote the construction of the curriculum system in English Course.

In 2019, IEC is continuing to promote the English-Taught Undergraduate Programs, two classes of 2019 International Trade and Economy Undergraduate Program were enrolled, and the first enrollment of 2019 Computer Science and Technology Undergraduate Program was 17.

Under the guidance of the higher education, Exit-Entry Administration and other departments, the education of international students at GDUT has experienced a process of the scale of development and structural optimization. IEC closely focuses on the goal of studying in China in terms of “expanding scale, improving quality and increasing efficiency”,actively acting, docking and undertaking education for international students in China, cooperation courses, foreign-related educational cooperation, and promotion of Chinese culture. At the same time, IEC carried out the characteristic education activities for international students in China, including the Guangzhou English Channel in the Han Pei teaching, the establishment of the International Student Union, the Guangzhou Friendship games won the collective and individual project champions, and the international student team won the GDUT football championship etc.

As of November 2021,the University established International Exchange College on the basis of International Education Center. IEC takes enrollment, administration and services functions of international students at Guangdong University of Technology for its main task, and also undertakes the Chinese language teaching for international students.

IEC will take the initiative, act bravely and work around the national strategy and the university international strategy, continuing to rely on the innovation platform and the professional dominant disciplines of GDUT,striving to promote perspectives and understanding of international cultures,making GDUT an ideal learning base for international students, and make greater contributions to the construction of high-level universities and the opening-up of education.

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