Guilin University of Technology is a university funded by the central and local governments and mainly managed by Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The school originated from Guilin Geological School, which was established by the former Guangxi Ministry of Heavy Industry 1956. After five changes of ownership and ten changes of school name, it was renamed Guilin Institute of Metallurgical Geology on 1978, Guilin Institute of Technology on 1993, and Guilin University of Technology in 2009. The school has four campuses, namely, Feng Ping in Guilin, Yanshan in Guilin, Anji in Nanning and Nanning Airport, with a total campus area of more than 3,300 mu.
The school has 19 secondary teaching units, 3 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 3 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 22 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, and 14 professional master degree categories, and is qualified to recommend outstanding fresh graduates to pursue master's degrees without examination. There are 82 undergraduate majors and 50 higher vocational majors, with more than 44,000 full-time students.
The school has more than 900 full-time teachers/kloc-0, including more than 880 senior professional and technical teachers and more than 0 doctoral supervisors/kloc-0. There are more than 40 national high-level experts and talents such as "National 100 Million Talents Project Candidates"; There are more than 90 provincial and ministerial-level high-level talents such as Guangxi "Bagui Scholars". Harold kroto, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was appointed as honorary professor, and a number of well-known experts and scholars, such as academicians of the two academies and Changjiang Scholars, were appointed as lecture professors and visiting professors.
Guilin University of Technology School-running Facilities
The school has good teaching and research conditions. At present, there are 1 collaborative innovation center established by the Ministry of Education, 1 national key laboratory cultivation base established by the Ministry of Education, 1 key laboratory established by the Ministry of Education, 1 engineering research center established by the Ministry of Education, 2 government academician workstations in Guangxi, 24 key disciplines in Guangxi (including 5 dominant and characteristic disciplines), and Grade I in Guangxi.
In addition, Guangxi University Collaborative Innovation Center 1 each, Guangxi International Science and Technology Cooperation Base 1 each, Guangxi Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Pilot Base 2, Guangxi Science and Technology Think Tank 1 each, Guangxi University Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base 1 each, and Guangxi University Key Laboratory 10. There is a national university science park and a "creative space", and the school is recognized as an "autonomous region technology transfer demonstration institution".