Shantou polytechnic was approved by Guangdong Provincial People's Government in March, 2002, and was formed by the merger of Shantou Education College (including Shantou Kindergarten Normal School), Shantou Commercial Supply and Marketing School and Shantou Electromechanical School. The college consists of four campuses, and its headquarters is located at the foot of the beautiful East Lake Mountain in the southern district of Shantou City, covering an area of 470 mu (the municipal government has approved to reserve 1000 mu of development land in the north of the college); Jinyuan Campus is located in the original campus of Shantou Education College, Jinyuan Road, Shantou City. There are also two campuses, Xinjin and Dongdun. At present, the college covers a total area of about 657 mu, the total building area of the school building exceeds186,000 square meters, and the teaching, living and sports facilities are perfect. There are experimental practice equipment with a total value of more than 23 million yuan, which can meet the needs of teaching and practice in various majors; With a total collection of more than 342,000 volumes, the library is an ideal campus for young people to study and further their studies.

The college now has ten departments, including computer department, electromechanical department, economic management department, mathematics department, political literature department, foreign languages department, art and sports department, preschool education department, adult education department and technical secondary school department. In addition to normal 15 majors, there are more than 10 general majors and 10 secondary vocational majors in applied electronic technology, mechatronics, computer, accounting, tourism, trade, secretarial, art and language. At present, there are more than 50 full-time students 10 150, and more than 3300 students in adult colleges and universities.

The college has a professional and well-structured teaching staff of 749, including 585 full-time teachers, 96 senior professional and technical positions such as associate professors or senior lecturers, 278 intermediate professional and technical positions, and 2 1 1 person for junior professional and technical positions. At the same time, we also hired a group of experts and senior engineers with rich practical experience as part-time teachers. The college has a strong faculty and its teaching strength is fully capable of meeting the needs of higher vocational and technical education and higher normal education.

Shantou polytechnic will, under the leadership of Shantou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, closely combine the local social and economic development and the reality of industrial development, implement a school-running model with full-time academic education as the mainstay and the common development of adults, continuing education and vocational training, and strive to build the college into a regional higher vocational and technical education and research center with distinctive characteristics by the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan. Productivity promotion center for popularizing new technologies; Nine-year compulsory education teacher training base. Provide technical talents and technical service support for the economic construction and social development of Shantou and its surrounding areas. The college will explore more employment channels, get in touch with relevant industries and enterprises in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta, and directly recommend graduates. The employment prospects of college graduates are bright.