The school is located in Yongzhou, a famous historical and cultural city. It is known as "Splendid Xiaoxiang" and has a profound cultural background. It is the birthplace of Shun culture, Yao culture, Liu Wenhua, Nvshu culture, rice culture and Neo-Confucianism. The school is adjacent to Guangdong and Guangxi, where Xianggui Railway, Luozhan Railway, Hengkun Expressway, Yong Lian Highway, 207 national highway and National Highway 322 meet. Yongzhou airport can reach major cities in China, with convenient land, water and air transportation.
The school seized the opportunity of the rapid development of higher education, took Scientific Outlook on Development as the overall work of the school, adhered to the guidance of the evaluation index system of undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education, and guided by social needs, comprehensively strengthened construction, steadily expanded the scale of running a school, continuously optimized the structure of running a school, significantly improved the conditions for running a school, and gradually improved the quality and efficiency of running a school. The school was rated as "Civilized Unit in Hunan Province", "Advanced Unit in Logistics Work of National Ordinary Colleges and Universities", "Advanced Unit in Party Building Work in Hunan Province" and "Advanced Unit in Employment of Graduates in Hunan Province", and was listed as a pilot university for college English teaching reform of the Ministry of Education.
The school now covers an area of 692,800 square meters, with a total construction area of 310.4 million square meters, a library of 764,000 books and a total teaching equipment value of 55.66 million yuan. Full-time students 10898, enrolled in 28 provinces (cities, autonomous regions). There are 82 faculty members1person, including 5 full-time teachers11person. There are 37 full-time teachers, associate professors 1 10, lecturers 128, masters and doctors 109. There are 200 master's and doctoral students. The school has 14 departments (departments), 1 continuing education colleges, 10 research institutes and 24 full-time undergraduate majors, covering 7 categories: science, engineering, literature, economics, management, law and teaching.
Since 2002, the school has undertaken 157 educational reform projects at or above the provincial level, such as the tenth five-year plan of national educational science, the educational science planning project of Hunan Province, and the key educational reform project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education. Won the first prize of national teaching achievement 1 item, and 5 outstanding teaching achievement awards in Hunan province. The Institute of Higher Education has been rated as an excellent research institution of higher education in China, and its educational research has ranked among the top 70 universities in China. Teachers have published 46 books and compiled 39 textbooks; Teachers published 2 1 10 SCIentific research papers in journals above the provincial level, of which 46 were included by sci, EI and ISTP; 10 or more scientific and technological development projects; Journal of hunan university of science and engineering is one of the top 100 journals of humanities and social sciences in China, and it is also the core journal of humanities and social sciences in China.
The school has always attached importance to the quality of teaching, unswervingly adhered to teaching as the center, and aimed at cultivating innovative and applied talents to meet the needs of local economic and social development, and constantly deepened the reform of education and teaching. School leaders made typical speeches at the national conference on teaching work in undergraduate colleges and the national conference on employment work in undergraduate colleges of science and engineering. Students participated in the National Mathematical Modeling Competition, English Speech Competition, Electronic Design Competition for College Students, Extracurricular Academic Research Works Competition for College Students, and Young Putonghua Speech Competition, all of which achieved excellent results. The employment rate of graduates remains above 90%.
The school has carried out extensive foreign exchanges and cooperation. Thirty teachers went to the United States, Japan, Britain, Australia, Thailand and other countries for further study, and 20 foreign scholars and nearly 100 famous domestic experts came to give lectures or lectures.
According to the established guiding ideology and orientation of running a school, the school is further deepening the reform of education and teaching, developing in an all-round way, striving to make the school a local multi-disciplinary undergraduate college with excellent quality and distinctive characteristics, and making new and greater contributions to local economic and social development.