The school, formerly known as Huizhou Normal School in Guangdong Province, was founded in 1946. 1978 was upgraded to Huiyang Teachers College, and 199 1 was the only normal college in Guangdong Province commended by the State Education Commission, and was rated as a first-class university in the evaluation of the running level of colleges and universities in Guangdong Province. From 65438 to 0993, Huizhou University merged with Huizhou Branch of Northwest Textile Institute of Technology and Huizhou Education College to form a junior college level. In 2000, it was upgraded to a full-time undergraduate college, and in 2006, it passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education.
Since its founding 73 years ago, the school has gradually formed a school-running pattern of "based on Huizhou, integrating into Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and serving Guangdong".
The orientation of "radiating the whole country, building a high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics of science and engineering and coordinated development of teacher education" and the training goal of "high-quality application-oriented talents with scientific spirit, humanistic quality, international vision and innovative thinking" have trained nearly 6.5438+0.5 million graduates for the country and society and become the cradle of advanced application-oriented talents in Dongjiang River Basin.
Education and teaching have achieved fruitful results. At present, there are 18 secondary colleges and 54 undergraduate majors, covering ten disciplines such as science, engineering, agriculture, literature, law, economics, history, management, teaching and arts. There are 1 national majors, 8 provincial majors, 3 provincial key majors, 8 provincial professional comprehensive reform pilots and 2 provincial application-oriented ones.
The school has the first batch of collaborative education platforms in the province-excellent collaborative education platform for legal talents, with 10 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national off-campus practical teaching bases for college students,1provincial off-campus practical teaching bases for college students, 7 provincial demonstration teacher education practice bases and 7 provincial innovative experimental areas for talent training mode.
IT has the first batch of collaborative innovation platforms in the province-clothing collaborative innovation and development center, as well as a number of collaborative innovation centers jointly built by schools and enterprises, such as key technologies collaborative innovation center of photoelectric industry, big data collaborative innovation center and new generation IT collaborative innovation center. The school won the national teaching achievement award 1 item and 9 provincial teaching achievement awards.
In the three rounds of "Evaluation Results of Innovative Talents Training and Discipline Competition in National Colleges and Universities" issued by China Higher Education Society, they all achieved good rankings and ranked among the best in local colleges and universities. Among them, 20 12-20 16, 20 13-20 17, 20 14-20 18 were ranked in the "Top 300 Competition Evaluation Results of National Colleges and Universities" respectively.