Shenzhen University of Technology is a public application-oriented undergraduate college in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. Facing the development needs of high-end industries, Shenzhen University of Technology is committed to cultivating top professionals with' artisan characteristics' such as high-level engineers and designers. The school is a high-level Universities of Applied Sciences with bachelor degree or above built during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. It is a concrete action to implement the "eastward strategy" of the municipal party Committee and government.

Shenzhen University of Science and Technology is a new public research university with a high starting point and a high orientation established in Shenzhen under the background of China's higher education reform and development. The school draws lessons from the discipline setting and running mode of world-class universities of science and engineering, focusing on science, engineering and medicine, and has a discipline system with equal emphasis on business and distinctive humanities and social sciences. It runs schools at undergraduate, master and doctoral levels, and conducts research in a series of new disciplines, making the school a think tank leading social development and a source of new knowledge and technology.

In accordance with the orientation and goal of building an international high-level research university, Shenzhen University of Science and Technology faces the huge demand of the development of strategic emerging industries in China and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, focusing on science, engineering and medicine, and taking business and characteristic humanities and social sciences as the discipline system, and quickly establishes a training system for master's and doctoral students. At present, eight colleges, including the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering, have been established, 28 departments and several centers have been built, and 34 undergraduate majors have been offered.