Introduction to Shaoguan University Shaoguan University is a provincial public full-time comprehensive undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and a bachelor's degree awarding unit approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. The school is located in Shaoguan, a world-famous geological park, where Danxia Mountain and Nanhua Temple, the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism, are located, an excellent tourist city in China and a famous historical and cultural city in northern Guangdong. Shaoguan City is located in the north of Guangdong Province, 200 kilometers away from Guangzhou, with convenient transportation. There are Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, Wuhan-Guangzhou Expressway, Jiangxi Expressway, Leguang Expressway and Shaoguan Railway running through the north and south. The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway take about 2.5 hours from Shaoguan to Guangzhou, and the Wuhan-Guangzhou Expressway takes about 45 minutes from Shaoguan to Guangzhou.
The school covers an area of 2,622 mu with a total construction area of 672,800 square meters. Campus trees, birds and flowers, beautiful environment. It integrates campus, forest garden and park, creating an excellent educational environment. The reputation and social influence of the school are constantly expanding. In recent years, it has successively won the honors of "National Civilized Unit", "National Advanced Unit for Spiritual Civilization Construction", "National Model Unit for Greening", "National Advanced Unit for College Students' Summer Social Practice in the Countryside", "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Guangdong Civilized Unit", "Guangdong Model School for Governing Schools by Law" and "Guangdong Civilized Campus". College Students' Civilization Education Month, Growth Forum and Reading Activity Month won the second and third prizes of the National Excellent Achievement Award for Campus Culture Construction. The school was also named as one of the "New Ten Scenes of Shaocheng" by Shaoguan Municipal People's Government, and the library building won the Luban Award, the highest national architectural award. The pictures of campus scenery were included in the large-scale album "Green Glory" published by the National Greening Committee.
The school's predecessor was Shaoguan Teachers College, which was founded in 1958. After 60 years of construction and development, the school has formed a distinctive school-running characteristics and comprehensive discipline pattern, and has become an important base for talent training and knowledge and technology innovation in northern Guangdong and even the "Red Triangle" region. At present, the school has faculties of arts, foreign languages, economics and management, Yingdong Life Sciences, Yingdong Food Science and Engineering, Yingdong Agricultural Science and Engineering, Information Science and Engineering (Software College), Physics and Electromechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Physical Education, Mathematics and Statistics, Law School, Politics and Public Affairs Management College, Tourism and Geography College, Art and Design College, Music College and Education College. There are 22 secondary colleges and teaching auxiliary departments, including Shaozhou Normal Branch, Medical College, Network and Education Technology Center, Civil Engineering College and Marxist College, with 73 undergraduate majors and 57 specialist majors. The school has excellent teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment, a large number of advanced experimental equipment and application software, including 1 1 provincial key laboratory and provincial experimental teaching demonstration center; It has a modern and intelligent library known as the "Top Ten Most Beautiful Libraries in Guangdong", with a collection of 2,902,245 paper books, 65,438+0,992 electronic books, more than 900,600 Chinese and foreign electronic periodicals, a one-stop information retrieval platform, a computer management and service system, and well-equipped multimedia information utilization.
The school adheres to the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents", with staff 1907, including senior title 1 10, associate senior title 465438 and doctor 194, which provides a strong guarantee for the improvement of school-running strength and level. In the past five years, teachers in our school have presided over and participated in national scientific research projects 13 (including national natural science fund projects 13 and national social science fund projects 3), provincial and ministerial scientific research projects 137, 350 municipal and ministerial scientific research projects and 302 horizontal projects closely related to local economic and social development. Publicly published 2772 academic papers, of which 357 were included by SCI, EI, ISTP and CSSCI; Won 57 scientific and technological awards at or above the municipal level, including 3 second prizes of national scientific and technological progress, 3 gold medals of China Invention Patent Expo and 6 national patents1/kloc-0. National characteristic plans 1 piece, 6 provincial characteristic plans, 4 provincial characteristic plans, 6 municipal characteristic plans, and provincial strategic emerging industry characteristic plans 1 piece. National comprehensive reform pilot specialty 1, provincial comprehensive reform pilot specialty 2 1. In the past five years, he has presided over the national education reform project 1, 70 higher education reform projects in Guangdong province and 7 provincial teaching achievement awards; In recent years, more than 300 monographs and teaching materials have been published. The school has made important contributions to the economic development and social progress of the local and even the whole province and surrounding provinces.
The scale of running a school has been steadily expanded, and the quality of personnel training has been continuously improved. Since its establishment 60 years ago, it has trained nearly 300,000 talents in various fields for the country. At present, there are 27 157 full-time college students and 4238 adult education students. Students won 1369 prizes at or above the provincial level in national and provincial mathematical modeling competitions, college English competitions, mechanical innovation design competitions, electronic design competitions, college physics experiment competitions and visual art competitions, including national and provincial first prizes. Graduates are very popular with the society. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates has remained above 98%, ranking among the top universities in the province. The school was awarded the honorary titles of "National Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates" and "Guangdong Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates" by the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education respectively. In 2007, the school successfully passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education and was well received by the expert group.
The school attaches great importance to foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly and cooperative relations with universities and academic and cultural organizations in Britain, the United States, Indonesia, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Malaysia, Panama, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries, which has effectively promoted the development of teaching and research and the improvement of the internationalization level of education.