Hunan Institute of Applied Technology is a full-time undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education. Located in Jiangnan City, Changde City, Hunan Province, with a planned total area of 2 145 mu, it has been completed 1057 mu, with a construction area of more than 300,000 square meters. The school was founded in 1994, then called Changde Computer Technology School. 1998 became a pilot institution of higher education diploma and was renamed Changde Computer College. In 2004, it was upgraded to a national unified recruitment college and renamed as Hunan Tongde Vocational College; In 20 14, it was upgraded to a national unified undergraduate college and renamed Hunan Institute of Applied Technology.
The school now has economic management, mechanical and electrical engineering, design art, information engineering, agriculture and forestry science and technology, foreign languages, culture and media college, Marxist college, public courses, innovation and entrepreneurship college and continuing education college, offering 18 undergraduate majors and more than 20 specialist majors (directions). There are 743 faculty members, including 459 full-time teachers, 84 associate professors, 9 doctors and 202 masters. "Double-qualified" teachers account for 69% of the total number of teachers, including more than 9,900 undergraduate and junior college students from 15 ethnic groups in 65,438 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. There are 125 multi-functional laboratories and training ground bases on campus, more than 80 off-campus fixed practice training bases, more than 70 entrepreneurial innovation studios, 6 on-campus and off-campus entrepreneurial incubation bases, more than 3,000 books 1 100, and more than 3,000 supporting computers. The employment rate of graduates is over 96%.
School teachers have published more than 2,000 teaching and research papers, 36 monographs and teaching materials, won national invention patents 109, won provincial and ministerial teaching and research awards 1 1, and undertaken provincial key and youth teaching and research projects 138.
The school has successively won 170 national, provincial and municipal honorary titles, such as "first-class engineering" excellent institutions in Hunan Province. Many media, such as People's Daily, China Education News, Hunan Education Television and so on, made special reports on our school, which was praised as "the cradle of cultivating applied and innovative talents".