The school has two campuses, Pingyuan Road and Wenhua Road, covering an area of more than 2,000 mu and a construction area of nearly 600,000 square meters. There are more than 25,000 ordinary full-time students. Students are distributed in 28 provinces and cities (regions) across the country. The school has complete teaching facilities, including modern laboratory, language lab, multimedia classroom, microteaching room, studio and gym. The library is rich in books, with 6,543.8+0.7 million paper books and 654.38+0.7 electronic resource databases. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is about 65.438+0.6 billion yuan. The school environment is beautiful. There are Chunming Lake, Xiameng Lake, Qiuyun Lake, East Taihu Lake, Wenxiu Mountain, pavilions and waterside pavilions, lotus flowers and weeping willows, rippling blue waves, lakes and mountains.
The school has 20 departments and 3 teaching departments. There are 64 undergraduate majors and 26 specialist majors, covering 10 disciplines. It has gradually formed a discipline structure system with arts and sciences as the mainstay, engineering and art as new growth points, strong basic disciplines, good prospects for applied disciplines and rapid growth of emerging disciplines. At present, there are 4 provincial key disciplines, 2 national specialties, 7 provincial specialties, 1 national specialty comprehensive reform pilot, 4 provincial specialty comprehensive reform pilot, 1 provincial undergraduate engineering education talent training mode reform pilot specialty, 5 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and 5 provincial teaching teams. The school adheres to the strategy of strengthening the school with high-level talents, strives to build a first-class faculty, and vigorously introduces academic leaders and academic and technical leaders such as "Yingtian Scholars" and "distinguished professor". At present, the school has a staff of 1622, including full-time teachers 1 1500, professors and associate professors, and doctors 197. Twenty teachers were employed as doctoral and master's tutors in other universities and research institutes. The school insists on taking all kinds of skill competitions as the starting point and encourages students to carry out scientific research activities. Cooperate with foreign universities such as the University of Worcester in Britain and Kaplan University in the United States to recruit students from Russia, South Korea, Nigeria and other countries, and gradually form an "open and international" school-running model.
The school has strengthened the construction of scientific research and discipline platforms, with 3 scientific research platforms at all levels and under construction, including 3 provincial scientific research platforms, namely "Key Laboratory of Biomolecular Recognition and Sensing in Colleges and Universities in Henan Province", "Research Center of Biomass Degradation and Gasification Engineering Technology in Colleges and Universities in Henan Province" and "Research Center of Functional Materials Synthesis Engineering Technology in Colleges and Universities in Henan Province".
The school adheres to the concept of scientific research serving the society, takes the road of localization and characteristic scientific research development, implements the strategy of driving major scientific research projects, and the number of high-level scientific research projects increases year by year. Up to now, our school has obtained 43 national natural science foundation projects; National social science fund project 15, among which the national key project 1.
The school is committed to serving the construction of the Central Plains Economic Zone. Established a national off-campus practice education base for undergraduate teaching engineering and a university student innovation and entrepreneurship center. The exploration and practice of cooperative education in Industry-University-Research have been carried out, and a new way of "combining Industry-University-Research with various forms of cooperation" has been found, which has improved students' practical ability and social adaptability.
The spring breeze melts the rain into the night, moistening things and educating people silently. The school unswervingly adheres to the construction of campus culture, actively creates a harmonious educational environment, strives to cultivate a broad, heavy and wise university spirit, inherits the school motto of "learning from nature, being wise and pragmatic", carries forward the school spirit of "applying what you have learned and believing in practical learning", carries out in-depth activities to build teachers' morality and spiritual civilization, and constantly strengthens ideological construction, organizational construction, cadre team construction, party style and clean government construction, and vigorously strengthens and improves it.
The school attaches great importance to the study of regional culture and consciously undertakes the heavy responsibility of cultural inheritance. At present, the school has the key research bases of humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities in Henan Province-Han Liang Cultural Research Center, Henan Cultural Industry Research Base and Provincial and Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center, which has achieved a large number of influential research results and formed a number of social science research bases with unique regional cultural characteristics.
The school has successively won more than 40 honorary titles at or above the provincial level, such as civilized units in Henan Province and "Five Good" Party committees of colleges and universities in Henan Province. It was rated by the mass media as 123 "the fastest growing university in China", "the top ten undergraduate colleges that the public is most satisfied with in Henan Province", "the top ten most influential educational brands (undergraduate colleges) in Henan Province" and "the top 20 undergraduate colleges with comprehensive strength in Henan Province", and won the "Best Employment Quality of Henan Higher Education" in the 6th Henan Higher Education Employment Credibility Survey.