South China University of Technology, formerly known as South China University of Technology, was founded in 1952 during the adjustment of national universities. It was established on the basis of engineering departments and majors of Sun Yat-sen University, South China United University Institute of Technology, Lingnan University Institute of Technology and Guangdong Institute of Technology, and transferred to some engineering departments and majors of five universities, including Hunan University, Zhonghua University in Wuchang, Wuhan Jiaotong University, Nanchang University and Guangxi University. Renamed on 1988.
1995 passed the pre-examination of "2 1 1 project" and entered the ranks of national key universities facing 2 1 century; /kloc-0 passed the excellent evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education at the end of 1999 and became the first batch of "excellent undergraduate teaching schools" in China; In the same year, with the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, the National University Science Park was established; In 2000, it approved the establishment of a graduate school; 200 1, a new round of provincial key construction was implemented, and the school entered the ranks of national high-level university construction ("985 Project"). In 2007, he passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with excellent results; 20 12 entered academic ranking of world universities top 500 of Shanghai jiaotong university; 20 13 10 was selected as the "First-class University in China" by China University; In the same year, once again entered the "academic ranking of world universities" top 500; In 20 16, Shanghai jiaotong university entered the top 300 in the "world academic ranking" as a whole, and the ranking in engineering field jumped to the 22nd place in the world.
South China University of Technology has become a comprehensive research university, which is good at engineering, combines science with engineering, and develops management, economy, literature, law and medicine in a coordinated way. The overall level of light industry technology and engineering, food science and engineering, urban and rural planning, material science and engineering, architecture, chemical engineering and technology, landscape architecture and other disciplines has entered the top ten in China. Seven disciplines, including chemistry, materials science, engineering, agricultural science, physics, biology and biochemistry, and computer science, have entered the top 65,438+0% of the international ESI global rankings. The school has good conditions for running a school, excellent teaching environment and rigorous academic attitude, and adheres to the tenet of "being knowledgeable and thinking carefully". The school motto of "distinguishing between the two" adheres to the goal of cultivating top-notch innovative talents with high quality, "innovation, creation and entrepreneurship" and international vision, and strives to cultivate innovative and compound talents.