Hefei University of Technology

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Hefei University of Technology

合肥工业大学
Motto	厚德、笃学、崇实、尚新
Motto in English	Pursuing virtue and knowledge, seeking truth and innovation
Type	Public
Established	1945; 79 years ago (1945)
President	Zheng Lei
Administrative staff	3,768
Students	25,500
Location	Hefei , Anhui , China
Campus	Urban, 3 Campus
Website	hfut.edu.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	合肥工业大学
Traditional Chinese	合肥工業大學
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Héféi Gōngyè Dàxué

The Hefei University of Technology (HFUT; Chinese: 合肥工业大学) is a public university in Hefei, Anhui, China.^[1][2] It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded with the Anhui Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and SASTIND. The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction and Project 211.

At present, HFUT enrolls 29,480 undergraduate students and 11,800 graduate students.

Campuses and departments

HFUT has four campuses, namely, Tunxilu, Lu’anlu, Feicuihu and Xuancheng, covering an area of about 3,417,390 m². The first three campuses are all located in Hefei, the provincial capital of Anhui, and the fourth in Xuancheng, a city about 194 kilometers away from Hefei.

Campuses in Hefei have 19 schools covering a wide range of fields with a strong focus on engineering science. The schools offer 82 undergraduate programs, 32 first-level disciples with authorization to confer master's degrees, 12 first-level disciples for doctoral programs as well as 12 post-doctoral programs. 4 disciplines are selected as national key disciplines, 28 provincial key disciplines. The university has 1 state key lab, 1 national engineering lab, 4 national university-industry joint engineering research centers and 46 research centers at the ministerial or provincial level as well as 1 national A-level architectural design and research institute. The campus in Xuancheng has 5 departments.

Participation in Education and Development Plan for Outstanding Engineers

It has made remarkable achievements in student education. Throughout the years, key disciplines, courses, textbooks, teaching and experiment centers, teaching staff of HFUT have won numerous awards at all levels, highly reputed in China^{[citation needed]}. It is among the first batch of 61 pilot colleges and universities to conduct the Education and Development Plan for Outstanding Engineers initiated by the Ministry of Education. About 200 projects carried out by HFUT students have been funded by the National University Student Innovation Program.

In 2013, the university had an annual research funding in sciences of over RMB 447 Million. Total number of applications for invention patents was 357, of which 204 have been licensed.