Introduction to Henan University of Science and Technology

Henan University of Science and Technology (HAUST) is located in Luoyang, well-known as the thousand-year ancient capital and the peony flower city. It is a model university of Deepening Educational Reform of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a national Pilot University of Intellectual Property, a national-level Continuing Education Base for Professional and Technical Personnel, and the first rank of Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation and Technologies Transfer Bases accredited by the Ministry of Education. It also serves as the pilot university for the Reform of National Engineering Master's and Doctoral Programs and is the “Double-first Class” construction university and one of the key comprehensive universities in the high-level construction project of Henan Province.

HAUST grew from Beijing Tractor School founded in 1952. The first “Five-year Plan” called it to move to Luoyang in support of national industrial base construction in 1956. In 1958, it was renamed Luoyang Institute of Technology and attached to the State Ministry of Machine Industry and handed over to Henan People’s Government for management in 1998. In 2002, Luoyang Institute of Technology amalgamated Luoyang Medical College and Luoyang Agricultural college to form Henan University of Science and Technology.

The university has been fully implementing the educational policy of China. It has adhered to the motto of “Cultivate Virtue, Study Extensively, Develop Innovations, Practice Earnestly” and the spirit of “Encourage Self-improvement and Pursue Excellence”. HAUST has also been putting education first, giving academic development top priority and highlighting the development of connotation, which enables students to develop fully their talents and core competitiveness.

So far, HAUST has had a streamlined teaching and research support system. It is composed of 2 campuses including Kaiyuan Campus and Xiyuan Campus, covering 675 acres. The floor area of the buildings are 1,590,000 square meters. Now, there are 27 schools under leadership of 6 faculties and 2 academies of classical learning offering 11 disciplines for 49,000 full-time undergraduates, graduates, and international students and 33,000 continuing education students on campus. The university also has 11 affiliate hospitals and 13 other teaching hospitals, among which the No. 1 Affiliate Hospital ranks in the top 100 best hospitals nationwide and is funded by the National Difficult and Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment Capacity Improvement Project.

The university, in essence, has established a comprehensive university discipline system. There are 10 first-level discipline academic doctoral degree programs, 3 professional doctoral degree program, 7 post-doctoral research stations and also 42 academic master’s degree programs and 31 professional master’s degree programs. Seven disciplines, including engineering, materials science, clinical medicine, agronomy, botany and zoology, chemistry and lastly pathology and toxicology ranked in ESI’s global top 1%. Materials science and engineering as well as mechanical engineering have been selected as “Double First-class” construction disciplines of Henan Province. 4 disciplines have been honored the characteristic disciplines and 27 disciplines selected as key disciplines of Henan Province.

The university has been carrying out the plan of enhancing the university with talent cultivation and introduction. By now the faculty members are composed of more than 1,218 professors, associate professors, senior technical personnel, and 1,610 teachers with PhD degrees, among whom there are over 200 part-time academicians, national scholars, and professors who serve on the 100-1000-10000 Talents Project, chairs on the Yangtze River Scholar Project and scholars on Youth Talent Project,  talents on 4 ranks of national projects, chief scientists on Scientist Studio of Central-Plain Scholars, Famous Teachers of Henan Province, Provincial Distinguished Professors and Provincial Academic and Technical Leaders. Additionally, there are 2 national-level and 7 provincial-level teaching teams, 1 national and 5 provincial Huang Danian-Style teaching teams and 20 provincial-level teams on scientific and technological innovation.

The university has been continuously building up the talent-training system. Currently, it has over 90 bachelor’s degree programs, among which there are 21 national and 51 provincial first-class programs, 12 national excellent talent training pilot programs, and 16 programs certified by China Engineering Education Professional Evaluation. As for curriculum, there are 16 national undergraduate and online quality curriculums, 132 provincial first-class curriculums and 44 provincial online quality curriculums. In terms of the teaching teams, there are 33 provincial excellent teaching teams, 1 national and 2 provincial teaching demonstration centers as well as National Modern Industry School and Innovation and Entrepreneurship School. With years of efforts, HAUST has contributed 370,000 graduates as senior professionals to the society and has become a key university of talent cultivation and technical support for the Chinese bearing industry and has been honored as the “Bearing Engineers Education and Training Headquarters”.

The university also strengthens practical activities in innovation and entrepreneurship education, upholding the idea of basic learning, practical skills, innovation ability and producing high-quality professionals, which leads to the first rank of universities titled as “National University of Modern Industry” and “National University of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”. Over recent years, the excellent performance of students won HAUST 1,351 awards in national university students discipline competitions and 93 national awards in China’s “Internet Plus” and “Challenge Cup ”. Especially in 2024, students won 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals, 9 bronze medals in the China International University Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2024, which made the breakthrough in achieving two gold awards on the main track of higher education for the first time and ranked HAUST the 1^st among universities in Henan. Wang Xin, the champion from the bachelor’s degree program on marketing, was also honored with a letter of encouragement from President Xi Jinping. Additionally, the university is also ranked the 16^th on the Top 100 Annual Contributions List of Graduate Education Institutions in the 2023 Annual China Graduate Innovation and Practice Series Competition‌‌ and is awarded the title of Annual Important Contribution Unit as well.   

The university has been striving to build an independent innovation system. For reference, there are 6 national platforms such as National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Mining Heavy Equipment and National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Power Equipment; 91 ministerial and provincial research platforms like Henan Province New Materials and Intelligent Equipment Longmen Laboratory; 19 provincial humanities and social sciences research platforms including Research Center for Heluo Culture and the Construction of Modern Chinese Civilization as Henan Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences. Lately, HAUST has been honored 6 awards such as National Natural Science Award, National Technological Innovation Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award, He Liang He Li Foundation Science and Technology Award, and the 2nd Session of National Award for Excellence in Innovation; additionally awarded 39 ministerial and provincial first prizes and 57 Social Science Excellent Achievement Awards of Henan Province. Apart from these, it has also undertaken 167 national major projects and national key research and development projects.

The university takes an active part in international cooperation and exchanges at all levels. There are 4 Sino-foreign cooperation programs in running schools and the Polytechnic School of Modong as a dependent legal entity. It is also among the first rank universities who are qualified by MOE to provide bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree education for international students. The university exchanges and cooperates with 200 high-level universities and institutions from countries, including Russia, the US, the UK and EU countries.

                              Updated on November 12, 2024