Shaoguan University

Shaoguan University is a provincial public full-time comprehensive general undergraduate university in Guangdong Province. It is located in Shaoguan, a famous historical and cultural city in northern Guangdong, where Danxia Mountain and Nanhua Temple, the ancestor of Zen Buddhism, are located in the World Geopark.

The organization of higher education in Shaoguan College began in July 1958 with the Shaoguan Teachers College. In July 1989, Shaoguan Teachers College merged with Shaoguan University, which was founded in 1985. In December 1990, it was named Shaoguan University. In March 2000, Shaoguan University merged with Shaoguan Institute of Education, which was founded in 1979, and was upgraded to an undergraduate institution. It is Shaoguan University (hereinafter referred to as the school). In March 2018, Shaozhou Teachers College was officially incorporated into the school. In January 2021, the School of Medicine of Shaoguan University was officially incorporated into the school. The school is a regional high-level application-oriented university characterized by teacher education, with agronomy and engineering as its development advantages, and multi-disciplinary coordinated development.

The school covers an area of 2,627 mu, with a total construction area of 945,200 square meters and a collection of 2.91 million paper books. There are 2,726 faculty members and 1,496 full-time teachers. There are 119 senior professional titles, 414 deputy senior professional titles, and 1277 masters or above. There are 1 national school inspector, 4 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 2 national outstanding teachers, 1 advanced worker in the national education system, 4 provincial teaching teachers, 10 Nanyue outstanding teachers, and 2 Nanyue outstanding educators , 1 person in the "Guangdong Special Support Program" to promote the ideological and cultural leading talent project.

The school focuses on full-time undergraduate education, taking into account postgraduate education, and recruits students from 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and many countries across the country. There are 30,000 full-time undergraduate students and 10,000 adult education students. There are 11 disciplines, 17 secondary colleges, and 73 undergraduate majors, including liberal arts, science, engineering, agriculture, law, management, art, education, economics, history, and medicine. 1 national-level characteristic major, 14 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors, 9 provincial-level characteristic majors, 4 provincial-level key majors, 1 provincial-level strategic emerging industry characteristic major, 2 provincial-level applied talent training demonstration majors, 3 majors that have passed the IEET certification, 1 major that has passed the teacher's professional certification; 1 national first-class undergraduate course, 17 provincial first-class courses, 3 provincial industrial colleges (including 1 provincial demonstration industrial college); Minister of Education Approved 1 "new engineering" research and practice project, 69 collaborative education projects of the Ministry of Education, 1 project of Guangdong Province to create a national teacher education innovation demonstration zone, 91 provincial quality engineering projects, and 111 provincial education reform projects; National There are 1 practical education base for college students, 2 provincial collaborative education platforms, 15 provincial practical teaching bases for college students, 14 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 24 provincial demonstration teacher education practice bases. Institutions jointly built 341 practice bases. The school was selected as a partner institution of the Ministry of Education-ZTE ICT Industry-Education Integration Innovation Base Project.

The school focuses on building five key disciplines and professional clusters such as “ecological characteristic agriculture, cultural tourism, modern machinery and equipment, information network technology application, and teacher education”, and builds a three-level key discipline system of “provincial-level, municipal-school co-construction, and school-level”. It has 5 provincial-level characteristic key (cultivation) disciplines, 3 provincial-level “reinforcement and strengthening” key construction first-level disciplines, and 6 city-school co-construction key (cultivation) disciplines. It has 25 scientific research platforms above the provincial level (including joint construction) (including 1 provincial key laboratory) and 7 provincial scientific research innovation teams. In the past 3 years, the school has won 917 vertical scientific research projects above the municipal level, 138 projects above the provincial and ministerial level (including 16 at the national level), and 7 scientific research achievement awards above the provincial level. The school successfully applied for the Guangdong Provincial Doctoral Workstation and the "South China Agricultural University-Shaoguan University Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base".

In the past three years, the school has participated in various disciplines and professional competitions and won 1,249 awards at or above the provincial level, including 286 at the national level. The admission rate of graduates for postgraduate entrance examination remains above 7%, and the average annual overall employment rate is 97%. The school has entered the top 300 in the evaluation results (undergraduate) of the national college discipline competition for three consecutive years. Won 1 bronze award in the China International "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and 3 students were listed on the National Top 100 Entrepreneurship Heroes for College Students. The school has been successfully approved as "Guangdong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School", "Guangdong Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Base" and "the first national innovation and entrepreneurship education and research base".

The school actively serves the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It is listed by the Ministry of Education as a mainland university that recruits Hong Kong students without examination, and is listed as a Chinese cultural heritage base by the Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office. It has established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 50 universities in nearly 20 countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, and Australia, and recruits nearly 100 long-term and short-term students every year; More than 10 exchange and cooperation projects such as master's degree, more than 100 students go abroad (border) for exchange and study every year.

The school has successively won the "National Civilized Unit", "National Greening Model Unit", "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee", "National College and Technical College Student Volunteer Summer 'Three Going to the Countryside' Social Practice Activity Excellent Unit", "National" Lens Zhongsan Going to the Countryside 'Excellent Unit in Social Practice', 'National Advanced Institutions for Ten Years of Socialization Reform of College Logistics', 'National Demonstration Unit of Conservative Public Institutions', 'Guangdong Civilized Unit', 'Guangdong Provincial Demonstration School of Governing Schools by Law', 'Guangdong Province Safe and Civilized Campus' Honorary titles such as "Advanced Collective for Employment of Graduates of General Colleges and Universities in Guangdong Province" and "Top 100 Student Funding Units in Guangdong Province". In the "2020 China University Ranking List" released by the China Alumni Association, it ranked 328th; in the 2019 China Best Universities Ranking released by "Southern Net", it ranked 372nd; in the "Nanfang Daily" published by Guangdong Ranked 29th in the "salary list" of 2019 graduates of undergraduate colleges; ranked 19th in the ranking of Guangdong's 2018 undergraduate college admissions list (postgraduate admission rate) published by "Nanfang Daily"; in "Nanfang Daily" It ranks 7th among the top 10 Guangdong undergraduate colleges and universities in terms of employment rate. The campus was named by the municipal government as one of the "New Ten Scenic Spots in Shaocheng".