There are 46 undergraduate universities in Anhui Province, including 3 1 public universities and 0/5 private universities. In 2008, Anhui province began to implement the construction of demonstration and application-oriented undergraduate colleges and universities; In the same year, Anhui applied undergraduate university alliance was established. There are 24 universities in the Alliance, and the Alliance will hold regular activities. The Alliance Office is located in Hefei University.
20 13, project construction of local applied high-level universities; 2065438+01In June 2004, the establishment ceremony of the "Alliance of Applied Undergraduate Universities in the Yangtze River Delta Region" was held in Hefei University, Anhui Province on 20 12. The alliance includes 20 newly-built undergraduate universities in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai provinces, aiming at exploring the training mode of applied undergraduate talents, reforming the cooperation mechanism in Industry-University-Research and improving the quality of talent training in the Yangtze River Delta region.
20 14 12, Anhui provincial department of education issued "opinions on the classified development of local high-level university project construction", of which the second category is local applied high-level universities. Such schools aim at supporting local economic and social development with comprehensive services, take the cultivation of applied talents and applied scientific research as the main tasks, focus on the co-construction of provinces and cities, focus on applied disciplines and professional groups, "double-qualified" teachers and modular courses, gather social resources, build and share, and form a long-term mechanism of school-to-school, school-to-place and international cooperation in running schools.
The first batch of local applied universities are Hefei College, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Wanxi University, Huangshan College, Chuzhou College and Hefei Normal University. The second batch of institutions are Tongling College, Suzhou College and Anhui Xinhua College (run by the people).
20 18 Anhui provincial department of education issued "Anhui provincial local application-oriented high-level undergraduate colleges and universities construction standards (Trial)".
In addition, some colleges and universities are clearly built as application-oriented universities in their profiles. The specific list is: Anqing Teachers College, Suzhou College, Chaohu College, Huainan Teachers College, Bengbu College, Chizhou College, Anhui Art College, Anhui Sanlian College, Anhui Wenda Information Engineering College, Anhui Foreign Studies College, Bengbu Business School, Jianghuai College of Anhui University, Anhui Information Engineering College, Maanshan College, Hefei City College, Wanjiang Institute of Technology and Huaibei Institute of Technology.