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About Kunming Metallurgy College

Kunming Metallurgy College is a full-time public college with a long history and distinctive features, focusing on industry, combining industry, management, literature, business and art. It is a high-level vocational school construction unit with Chinese characteristics, a national model vocational college, a national high-quality vocational college, a high-level vocational college construction project college in Yunnan province and a high-quality vocational college construction unit in Yunnan province. Founded in 1952, the school has accumulated for a long time to form an excellent engineering school-running tradition and rich engineering culture atmosphere, with distinctive engineering application features, rich high-quality engineering school-running resources, and a high degree of integration with industry enterprises and regional economic and social development. It has trained more than 120,000 graduates for the society and achieved remarkable school-running results.

Excellent school conditions. The school is located in Kunming, the spring city, covering an area of 1,250 mu, with a building area of more than 600,000 square meters and a beautiful environment. There are more than 20,000 full-time students, nearly 1,000 faculty members, more than 80 professors and nearly 300 associate professors. There are 3 national and 8 provincial teaching teams, a group of outstanding teachers such as the national “Ten Thousand Talents Program” teaching masters, national and provincial experts, and high-level talents of Yunnan “Ten Thousand Talents Program”. Advanced teaching equipment, abundant books and teaching resources, and systematic training bases inside and outside the school have been built in every major. There are 3 national productive training bases, 2 “double-qualified” teacher training bases, 1 virtual simulation training center, 2 collaborative innovation centers, 2 skill master studios, and 13 provincial demonstration training bases. The practice training conditions are at the leading level of domestic similar colleges and universities, providing guarantee for training students’ practical ability.

Strong connotation construction. The school has continuously promoted the reform of education and teaching. In recent years, it has won more than 200 quality engineering construction projects at or above the provincial level, 1 first prize and 5 second prizes for national teaching achievements, 1 special prize for provincial teaching achievements, 5 first prizes and 4 second prizes. At present, there are 6 national demonstration majors, 11 national backbone majors, 2 national professional service industry capacity building majors, 2 key construction majors in national vocational education teacher training base, and 14 provincial key and characteristic majors. There are 4 national top-quality courses, 10 national top-quality courses and 23 provincial-level top-quality courses. For two consecutive years, the school has hosted the surveying and mapping competition and the engineering survey competition of the National Vocational College Skills Competition, all of which won the “Outstanding Contribution Award of the National Vocational College Skills Competition” of the Ministry of Education. In national and provincial skill competitions, individual and group awards of students are at the leading level of similar institutions.

Employment is good. The school has been widely recognized and trusted by the majority of candidates, parents and society, and it is the first choice for college entrance examination students in Yunnan Province. The admission score of Pugao in Yunnan Province ranks in the forefront of higher vocational colleges in Yunnan Province. For more than 10 years in a row, the school has adopted the “cultural quality+vocational skills” independent examination enrollment method, with stable students and high quality. The school actively expands batch employment of large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, promotes stable employment of small and micro enterprises, ensures the increment of localized employment, and actively promotes high-quality employment outside foreign countries and provinces. The employment rate of graduates has always been at the leading level of similar colleges and universities, and has successively won the commendation awards such as “National Advanced Unit for Employment of College Graduates”, “Top 50 Universities with Typical Employment Experience of National Graduates” and “Top 10 Universities with Typical Employment Experience in Yunnan Province” by the Ministry of Education, and won the first prize for employment of colleges and universities in Yunnan Province for more than ten years in a row.

High social reputation. The school has been rated as the national advanced unit of vocational education, the national advanced unit of spiritual civilization construction, the national outstanding contribution award unit of skilled talents cultivation, the first batch of demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in Yunnan Province, and the Yunnan provincial school spirit, teaching style and study style demonstration school, etc., which has won social praise such as “the cradle of high-skilled talents in metallurgy and mining industry” and “the vanguard of Yunnan higher vocational education”, and the society has given graduates a good evaluation of “being honest, being practical and enterprising”. In the comprehensive ranking of national higher vocational colleges, the ranking of subject competitions and the evaluation of school-running satisfaction over the years, the school has continuously maintained the first place in Yunnan higher vocational colleges, ranking among the leading ranks in the country. The school won the top 50 teaching resources of higher vocational colleges and the top 50 international influence of higher vocational colleges in 2017 and 2018.

Good demonstration. With profound school-running accumulation and distinctive school-running characteristics, and based on the southwest border of the motherland, the school serves the development strategy of the country and Yunnan Province. Training, innovation and talent cultivation; Industry-University-Research promotes industrial transformation and upgrading. Taking the opportunity of “Double High Plan”, the school will build a high-level higher vocational school with Chinese characteristics and export Chinese vocational education brands to Lanmei region and South Asia and Southeast Asia.