The Hefei University of Technology (HFUT; ) is a

public university A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whether a national university is considered public varies from o ...

Hefei Hefei is the Capital city, capital of Anhui, China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census. Its built-up (or ''metro'') area is made up of four u ...

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

, China. It is affiliated with the

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, and co-funded with the Anhui Provincial People's Government, the

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is the sixth-ranked executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for regulation and development of the postal service, Internet, wireles ...

, and SASTIND. The university is part of the

Double First-Class Construction The World First-Class Universities and First-Class Academic Disciplines Construction (), together known as Double First-Class Construction (), is a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the Chinese central government, initiated ...

and

Project 211 Project 211 ( zh, c=, links=no, s=211工程) was a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the government of China for "preparing approximately 100 universities for the 21st century", initiated in November 1995. There were 115 ...

. At present, HFUT enrolls 29,480 undergraduate students and 11,800 graduate students. HFUT has four campuses, namely, Tunxilu, Lu’anlu, Feicuihu and Xuancheng, covering an area of about 3,417,390 m². The first three campuses are all located in Hefei, the provincial capital of Anhui, and the fourth in Xuancheng, a city about 194 kilometers away from Hefei. Campuses in Hefei have 19 schools covering a wide range of fields with a strong focus on engineering science. The schools offer 82 undergraduate programs, 32 first-level disciples with authorization to confer master's degrees, 12 first-level disciples for doctoral programs as well as 12 post-doctoral programs. 4 disciplines are selected as national key disciplines, 28 provincial key disciplines. The university has 1 state key lab, 1 national engineering lab, 4 national university-industry joint engineering research centers and 46 research centers at the ministerial or provincial level as well as 1 national A-level architectural design and research institute. The campus in Xuancheng has 5 departments. It has made remarkable achievements in student education. Throughout the years, key disciplines, courses, textbooks, teaching and experiment centers, teaching staff of HFUT have won numerous awards at all levels, highly reputed in China. It is among the first batch of 61 pilot colleges and universities to conduct the Education and Development Plan for Outstanding Engineers initiated by the Ministry of Education. About 200 projects carried out by HFUT students have been funded by the National University Student Innovation Program. In 2013, the university had an annual research funding in sciences of over RMB 447 Million. Total number of applications for invention patents was 357, of which 204 have been licensed.

Schools and Colleges in HFUT

* School of Marxism * School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics * Technician College of Hefei University and Technology * College of Continuing Education * Department of Sports and Physical Education * School of Microelectronics * School of Foreign Languages * School of Mathematics * School of Software * School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering * School of Civil Engineering * School of Management * School of Computer Science and Information Engineering (School of artificial Intelligence) * School of Materials Science & Engineering * School of Architecture and Arts * School of Economics * School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering * School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering * School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering * School of Electrical Engineering and Automation * School of Resources and Environmental Engineering

Notable alumni

* Miao Wei - Minister of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China *

Ni Yuefeng Ni Yuefeng (; born September 1964) is a Chinese politician who is the current party secretary of Hebei, in office since April 2022. Previously he served as head and party branch secretary of the General Administration of Customs and before that ...

- Minister of General Administration Customs of the People's Republic of China * Ye Qing - Chairman of China Shenhua Group * Li Fusheng - Chairman of China Xuji Corporation

References

* http://en.hfut.edu.cn/list-139-1.html * http://en.hfut.edu.cn/list-135-1.html

External links

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Panorama

Tunxi Avenue Campus

Lake Emerald Campus
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