About Zhuhai College of Science and Technology
Zhuhai College of Science and Technology (formerly known as Zhuhai College of Jilin University) was established on May 18, 2004. It was approved as a bachelor’s degree granting unit in 2011. It signed an agreement with Jilin University to jointly train professional master’s degree students in 2013.
In the past 17 years since its establishment, the university has delivered more than 80,000 undergraduates and 123 joint master’s degree students to the society, and has developed into a nationally influential private undergraduate university with distinctive characteristics. It participated in one of the four authoritative world university rankings, Soft Science, for the first time after its conversion, ranking second in the country’s private universities and first in Guangdong Province.
The university has 25 secondary colleges and 63 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines of economics, law, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, art and education, with 3 provincial-level key disciplines, 3 municipal-level advantageous disciplines and 15 university-level key disciplines, and has There are 2 tourism education quality certification programs of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, 2 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 1 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction site, 13 provincial specialty majors, and 7 transition pilot development majors.
The university highlights the central position of teaching work and continuously improves teaching quality, ranking the first among similar institutions in the 2020 China University Teaching Quality Ranking by Arenasun Alumni Association, and currently has 1 national first-class course, 1 national college employment and entrepreneurship gold course, 5 provincial first-class courses and 21 provincial high-quality courses. The university has advanced equipment and complete facilities, and has built 67 research platforms of all levels and types, and the total available research funds in the past five years reached 151 million yuan, ranking steadily in the forefront of similar institutions in Guangdong Province, providing nearly 8,100 testing services for more than 400 enterprises in the region, solving more than 120 technical problems, and winning 5 China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Awards.
The university has implemented the strategy of strengthening talents and constantly optimized the introduction mechanism and cultivation environment of the faculty, and formed a team of teachers with rich teaching experience, strong R&D ability, moral and talented, diligent and dedicated, including 14 second-level professors, 40 doctoral supervisors, and 11 provincial teaching masters. In the past five years, teachers of the university have won 56 awards at various levels in national and Guangdong university teachers’ teaching competitions, and the university is ranked among the top ten similar institutions in China in the Analysis Report on National General University Teachers’ Teaching Competitions (2012-2019) released by the Chinese Society of Higher Education.
At present, the university has established exchange relations and substantial cooperation with more than 100 universities in 20 countries and regions, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; vigorously cultivate international talents, encourage students to study abroad and send more than 3,000 students to study and exchange abroad; vigorously cultivate special projects, actively innovate the joint cultivation mode of Chinese and foreign talents, and dock with many world-renowned universities to set up “2+2” Chinese and foreign dual degree programs in five majors, including finance, accounting, international economics and trade, business administration and English.
Since 2006, the university has been holding the “Science and Technology Master Lecture Series” and regularly inviting academicians to give lectures at the university. 95 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Third World Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics have visited the university and given 142 lectures so far. To date, 95 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Third World Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics have attended and delivered 142 lectures. The university actively encourages and organizes students to participate in academic and scientific, cultural and artistic, innovative and entrepreneurial events at home and abroad, and has won 1,677 awards at all levels in the past four years. The university ranks among the top institutions of its kind in Guangdong Province in the “Ranking of National Private and Independent Colleges in Academic Competitions 2015-2019” issued by the Chinese Society of Higher Education.
Known as one of the most beautiful college campuses in China
Located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area, the university is situated in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, one of the Special Economic Zones. The campus was designed by the world-famous Australian company PTW, which designed the Sydney Olympic Stadium, in accordance with the overall planning of Australian coastal architecture, with elegant environment, coconut and sea breeze, fresh air and beautiful scenery.
Striving to build a first-class innovative and application-oriented university
The university aims to build a first-class innovative and application-oriented university, based on the Bay Area, serving Guangdong, facing the needs of regional economic and social development, taking undergraduate education as the foundation and actively developing postgraduate education, cultivating high-level application-oriented talents with good ideological and moral qualities, solid professional foundation, innovative spirit, strong practical ability and good overall quality. Read More.