According to the inquiry of official website of Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang University of Technology is a multi-disciplinary research and application-oriented university focusing on engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law and art, not a double-class university. The school was founded in 1949, renamed Shenyang University of Technology in 1985, and 1998 was placed under the management of Liaoning Provincial People's Government by the former Ministry of Machinery Industry.