The Hunan Institute of Engineering () is a provincial public college in

Xiangtan Xiangtan ( zh, s=湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal P ...

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, China. Despite its English name, the school has not been granted

university status A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

. The college is under the Hunan Provincial Department of Education. The college was founded in 1951 and is organized into 16 schools and departments.

History

Approved by the Ministry of Education in June 2000, the official name of HNIE came into being as a result of the merger of Xiangtan Institute of Machinery () and Electricity Technology and Hunan Textile College (). Xiangtan Institute of Machinery and Electricity Technology, founded in 1951, affiliated with the former National Ministry of Machinery Industry, was appraised to be the national key construction modeling school of higher technical colleges of engineering. Hunan Textile College, founded in 1978, was attached to the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Textile Industry. HNIE is under the joint support of the central government and Hunan provincial government, the latter being mainly in charge of its administration.

Rankings

The Best Chinese Universities Ranking, also known as the " Shanghai Ranking", placed the university 414 in China. The university ranked # 2568 in the world out of nearly 30,000 universities worldwide by the University Rankings by Academic Performance 2023–2024.

Notable alumni

* Wen Huazhi ()

References

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