The school was founded in 1945 and has changed its name several times. 1958 was officially named Hefei university of technology, and 1960 was approved by the central government as a national key university. After the merger and reorganization with Anhui Institute of Technology and Anhui Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, it successively belonged to the Ministry of Higher Education, the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the Ministry of Mechanical and Electronic Industry and the Ministry of Education.

As of March 2020, the school covers a total area of 5,000 mu, with Tunxi Road Campus, Emerald Lake Campus, Lu 'an Road Campus and Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Research Institute of Hefei University of Technology in Hefei, and Xuancheng Campus of Hefei University of Technology in Xuancheng. There are 23 colleges (departments) and 94 undergraduate majors.

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Hefei University of Technology is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Anhui Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. [1] is a national "world-class discipline construction university".

National "2 1 1 project" and national "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" to build colleges and universities; It has been selected into the national "20 1 1 plan", "11plan", outstanding engineer education and training plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, and new engineering research and practice projects.

National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base, National College Practice Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, winners of China government scholarship for overseas students, and members of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hefei University of Technology