2. Introduction of South China Institute of Software Engineering of Guangzhou University. South China Institute of Software Engineering of Guangzhou University (referred to as South China Institute of Software Engineering) was established in 2002. In 2006, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as a full-time ordinary college for undergraduate education. It is an independent college featuring the training of IT talents. It is a demonstration school of innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students in Guangdong Province, a "Creative Space" (pilot unit) in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, an international service outsourcing talent training institution in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, an innovation and entrepreneurship (incubation) demonstration base in Guangzhou City, a vice-chairman unit of Universities of Applied Sciences United Information Technology Professional Cooperation Association, a vice-chairman unit of the expert committee of China Service Trade Association, a standing director unit of Industry-University-Research Innovation Alliance for school-enterprise cooperation in China, and the first batch of 5A-level social organizations of Guangdong Provincial Civil Affairs Department. The college is located in the high-tech industrial park of Conghua Economic Development Zone, which enjoys the reputation of "Pearl on the Tropic of Cancer". Guangzhou Metro 14 Taiping Station is at the main entrance of the college, with convenient transportation. China Soft Campus has beautiful scenery, pleasant environment, elegant layout of one canal and two lakes, and magnificent silk and cotton flowers. It is an ideal place for teachers and students to study and study.
The college has 10 departments, including software engineering department, network technology department, electronics department, computer department, digital media department, game department, management department, international trade department, accounting department and foreign languages department, and offers 30 undergraduate majors, including software engineering and network engineering, covering five disciplines, including engineering, art, management, economics and literature. Full-time undergraduates1more than 5000 people. The college has scientific orientation, advanced concept, rigorous scholarship and standardized management. Since its establishment, the employment rate of graduates has been stable at over 94%, and nearly 40,000 compound and applied talents with innovative spirit and practical ability have been trained for the society.
South China Institute of Software adheres to the motto of "erudite and advancing with the times", pays attention to the combination with regional economic and social development, and takes the application of information technology in all walks of life as a foothold. Its key development directions include software engineering, electronics and computer engineering, network engineering, information management and information system, electronic information engineering, intelligence science and technology, data science and big data technology, Internet of Things engineering, computer science and technology, automation, digital media technology, network and innovation. At the same time, pay attention to the combination of talent training and innovation and entrepreneurship practice. Under the trend of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", colleges of innovation and entrepreneurship were established earlier in similar colleges in the province to build innovative and entrepreneurial platforms for students, organize students to participate in various innovative and entrepreneurial practice activities, and cultivate innovative information elites. Since its establishment, Huasoft Student Entrepreneurship Team has accumulated more than 1 100 million yuan. The successful cases of innovation and entrepreneurship have attracted great attention from all walks of life and major media, and "learning IT and being soft in China" has been widely recognized by the society.
South China Institute of Software implements the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents", attracts outstanding talents at home and abroad, and has a sufficient number of teachers with reasonable structure and excellent professional quality. There are experts and professors from public universities, overseas returnees and "double-qualified" talents with rich practical experience in enterprises. In order to cultivate a group of high-end technical talents with international thinking and global vision, South China Institute of Software joined hands with foreign university alliances to jointly implement study abroad programs and exchange programs with nearly 100 well-known universities in the United States, Australia and other countries. South China Institute of Software cooperates with top IT companies at home and abroad in curriculum embedding, with Microsoft in campus IT planning, with IBM in curriculum embedding, with software testing giant Parasoft to build a soft testing laboratory, with Apple to build an iOS development training base, and with Huawei to build a "Huawei Innovation Experimental Class", which makes the teaching of the institute close to the forefront of technology development and application.
The school adheres to the philosophy of "people-oriented, harmonious development, quality-oriented, characteristic-oriented, and running the school according to law", and has achieved fruitful results after more than ten years of development and construction. Under the guidance of the "Innovation Strengthening School Project" and "Quality Project of Private Colleges and Universities" of the Provincial Department of Education, we will carry out in-depth teaching reform and vigorously improve the connotation construction and education quality. There are 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers (computer technology and application experimental teaching center and digital creative experimental teaching demonstration center), 1 provincial collaborative education center (software and information technology service collaborative education center), 1 provincial key cultivation disciplines (computer application technology), 1 provincial teaching achievement awards, 6 provincial comprehensive professional reform projects and 5 provincial specialty projects. Students take part in all kinds of academic, scientific and cultural competitions at all levels, and the number and level of awards are among the highest in similar colleges and universities in the province.