Xuzhou Institute of Engineering is located in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, an important node city of the national "Belt and Road", a national historical and cultural city, and the central city of the Huaihai Economic Zone. The school started in 1959 and was approved by the Ministry of Education as a full-time general undergraduate college in 2002 . The school has excellent school-running conditions. The campus covers an area of more than 2,100 acres and the school building area is 740,000 square meters. The disciplines are relatively complete, covering eight major disciplines including science, engineering, agriculture, literature, economics, management, education, and art. There are 19 teaching units and more than 22,000 full-time students . The school is the implementation of the national "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", the pilot university of the national industry-education integration development project, the chairman unit of China's photovoltaic engineering industry-education integration collaborative innovation platform, the executive vice chairman unit of the National Union of New Undergraduate Colleges, and the national college student. Bridge Association Chairman Unit. The quality of school education and teaching has been improved. There are 67 undergraduate majors , including 2 national- level specialty majors , 7 national-level first-class professional construction sites , 3 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education 's "Excellence Plan" , 1 Ministry of Education Professional Comprehensive Reform Pilot Project , and China Engineering Education Certification major 2 , 2 majors certified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban -Rural Development; 5 national first-class undergraduate courses ; 3 national engineering practice education centers , 1 national off-campus practice education base for college students , led the establishment of China's photovoltaic engineering industry-education integration collaborative innovation platform, selected as the first Approved as Jiangsu Province College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Education Center. Students have won 3 first prizes for outstanding graduation design papers in Jiangsu Province , the special prize of the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the ACM-ICPC Asian Regional Silver Award of the International College Students Programming Contest , and the Gold Award of the “Creating Youth” National College Students Entrepreneurship Competition. From 2016 to 2020 , it ranked 34th in the national competition list of newly-built undergraduate colleges and 3rd in Jiangsu Province . The quality of the school's teaching staff is excellent. At present , there are 1,630 faculty members , including more than 600 senior titles and more than 420 doctoral degrees . They have "National Candidates for the New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", "Experts Enjoying Special Allowances from the State Council", "Jiangsu Province Experts with Outstanding Contributions" and other provincial-level or above 173 talents ; approved as outstanding innovation teams in philosophy and social sciences in Jiangsu universities, outstanding teaching innovation teams in Jiangsu universities, 2 outstanding scientific and technological innovation teams in provincial universities, 2 outstanding teaching teams in the “Qinglan Project” of provincial universities , and 2 scientific and technological innovation teams . Teachers won the second prize of the National College Young Teacher Teaching Competition, the second prize of the National College Teacher Teaching Innovation Competition, and won the honors such as "National Model Teacher", "Jiangsu Province May 1st Labor Medal" and "Jiangsu Province May 1st Innovation Expert". The website of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, "Xinhua Daily" and other media reported on the construction of the school's teaching staff. The innovation capability of the school continues to rise. It has 5 key construction disciplines in Jiangsu Province , 4 provincial key construction laboratories , 7 provincial engineering laboratories , and 9 provincial engineering technology research centers . Platforms such as Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base, Provincial Earthquake Disaster Prevention Science Demonstration Base, and Provincial Earthquake Disaster Engineering Defense Technology Research Center. Since 2019 , 29 national fund projects have been approved , and won the second prize of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, the first prize of Jiangsu Province Science and Technology, and the first prize of Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. The school took the lead in establishing the Xuzhou Think Tank Alliance, and built the first university intangible cultural heritage museum in Huaihai. School exchanges and cooperation have been expanded in depth. It has established strategic cooperative relations with Nanjing Information Engineering University, Changzhou University, Xuzhou Branch of China Construction Bank, etc. , and carried out joint postgraduate training with 14 universities including Southeast University, Shenyang University of Technology, and Guizhou University of Finance and Economics . Established cooperative relations with 37 universities in 18 countries (regions) including the United States and Russia , undertaken 2 national-level Sino-foreign cooperative education projects , and was selected as the Jiangsu Education Opening Quality Improvement Project, and was rated as a high-level demonstration of Sino-foreign cooperative education in Jiangsu universities. Advanced unit of construction engineering. The school has been awarded the "National Model Workers' Home", "The Leading Unit of Logistics Informatization Construction in China's Colleges and Universities", "Jiangsu Civilized Campus", "Jiangsu Smart Campus", "Jiangsu Safe Campus", "Jiangsu Province Advanced Collective for Informatization Construction of Colleges and Universities", etc. Honorary title. The campus bookstore was rated as "the most beautiful bookstore in Jiangsu". At present, Xuzhou Institute of Technology is making every effort to accelerate high-quality development, comprehensively improve the level of running schools and the quality of talent training, and strive to build a national first-class applied university with distinctive characteristics as soon as possible. Show less