The school was founded in 1994, then called Changde Computer Technology School. 1998 became a pilot institution of higher education diploma and was renamed Changde Computer College. In 2004, it was upgraded to a national unified recruitment college and renamed as Hunan Tongde Vocational College; In 20 14, it was upgraded to a national unified undergraduate college and renamed Hunan Institute of Applied Technology.
The school now has economic management, mechanical and electrical engineering, design art, information engineering, agriculture and forestry science and technology, foreign languages, culture and media college, Marxist college, public courses, innovation and entrepreneurship college and continuing education college, offering 18 undergraduate majors and more than 20 specialist majors (directions). There are 743 faculty members, including 459 full-time teachers, 84 associate professors/kloc-0, 9 doctors/kloc-0, and 202 masters. "Double-qualified" teachers account for 69% of the total number of teachers.
There are more than 9900 students and junior college students from 16 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and 15 ethnic groups. The school has various facilities for education, teaching, training, entertainment and living, 125 multifunctional laboratory and training site base, more than 80 off-campus fixed training bases, more than 70 entrepreneurial innovation studios, 6 on-campus and off-campus entrepreneurial incubation bases, and a collection of 65,438 books.
School teachers have published more than 2,000 teaching and research papers, 36 monographs and teaching materials, won national invention patents 109, won provincial and ministerial teaching and research awards 1 1, and undertaken provincial key and youth teaching and research projects 138.
The school has successively won 170 national, provincial and municipal honorary titles, such as "first-class engineering" excellent institutions in Hunan Province. Many media, such as People's Daily, China Education News, Hunan Education Television and so on, made special reports on our school, which was praised as "the cradle of cultivating applied and innovative talents".