In March 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the City College of Dalian University of Technology, a new type of ordinary undergraduate college jointly founded by Dalian University of Technology and Dalian Songyuan Enterprise Group (a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Urban Construction Holding Group Co., Ltd.), was established, and the first 985 independent college in Northeast China was officially born.

In 2007, recommended by the Ministry of Education and China Independent College, City College of Dalian University of Technology served as the executive director of the Teaching Research Association of China Independent College.

June 5438 +2020 10, the school moved. The actual total area of the new campus is 484,460 square meters (726 mu), of which the Dalian Free Trade Zone campus is divided into two parts, east and west, and there is also a campus in the automobile industrial park. There are natural forests on both sides of the campus, 20 1 national highway in the north and eco-city in the west.

By the end of 20 13, the school had six secondary colleges, including Computer Engineering College, Electronic and Automation Engineering College, Management College, Architectural Engineering College, Foreign Languages College, Visual Arts and Media College, Engineering Practice Center, Basic Education Department, Sports Department, 24 majors and 50 professional directions.

The college is committed to cultivating high-quality applied talents.

The overall goal of talent training in the college is to cultivate students' excellent moral character, healthy physique, broad vision, solid foundation, extensive cultural knowledge, practical professional skills, strong foreign language application ability and computer application ability, as well as their abilities of self-management, development, getting along with people, communicating with people, solving practical problems and innovation, so as to comprehensively improve students' comprehensive quality and future competitiveness and become high-quality applied, research-oriented and innovative talents serving the socialist modernization of the motherland.