Liuzhou Institute of Technology was founded in 2002, formerly known as Lushan College of Guangxi University of Science and Technology, jointly organized by Liuzhou City Government and Guangxi University of Science and Technology. In April 2020, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education to be transformed into an ordinary full-time undergraduate college supervised by the Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and was renamed "Liuzhou Institute of Technology".
The school is located in Liuzhou, an important historical and cultural city in Guangxi. The campus covers an area of 1283.21 acres, with a total investment of more than 1.3 billion yuan and a total construction area of 425,400 square meters. It has a group of advanced teaching and experimental training buildings with supporting facilities, and has built nearly 170 practical teaching platforms such as basic experimental centers, metalworking practice centers, professional experimental training rooms, simulation experimental training centers, etc. The library's paper collection is about 106.08 million copies.
The school has a team of teachers with both ability and political integrity, good quality, and reasonable structure. It has experts who enjoy State Council subsidies, outstanding experts from the autonomous region, the first batch of high-level talents in Guangxi, outstanding scientific and technological personnel from the autonomous region, 100 middle-aged and young backbone teachers in Guangxi universities, Liuzhou There are a group of outstanding teachers including theoretical experts signed by the municipal government and outstanding young scientific and technological talents in Liuzhou. There are 707 full-time teachers, of which about 35% have senior professional titles, and 60% have doctoral and master's degrees.
Based in Guangxi, facing the whole country, the school closely combines the needs of regional economic and social development, adheres to the road of "differentiation" and "characterization", and forms a multi-disciplinary coordinated development of disciplines and majors. The existing School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Automotive Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, School of Design and Art, School of Language, Culture and International Education, School of Food and Chemical Engineering, School of Marxism, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Physical Education, Department of Foreign Language Teaching, Public The Art Teaching Department offers 42 majors, recruiting students from 26 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) across the country, with more than 12,000 students.
In recent years, the school has continuously deepened the reform of education and teaching, and gradually established a collaborative education system centered on school-enterprise cooperation and integration of production and education. The 8 colleges of the school have successively established the school-enterprise cooperation council and the school-enterprise cooperation teaching steering committee, signed school-enterprise cooperation agreements with more than 100 domestic enterprises, and established off-campus internship training bases. Industry and enterprise experts deeply participate in all aspects of school teaching. Link.
The school attaches great importance to the quality education of college students and focuses on cultivating innovative talents. Students have won more than ten national first prizes, second prizes and other honors in the domestic and foreign college students' mathematical modeling competition and the national college student electronic design competition. The racing car designed and produced by the students has represented the Chinese college student team for many times and participated in the International Formula Student Car Race and achieved good results. In the National Mechanical Design Innovation Competition, China "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, National College Student Art Show and other competitions at all levels, our school students have won more than 100 national awards.
Serving local economic construction and social development is the school philosophy that Liuzhou Institute of Technology has always upheld. Our school is the first batch of members to join the China University of Applied Sciences Alliance, and one of the first batch of 4 newly-built undergraduate colleges in Guangxi for the overall transformation and development of pilot colleges. In recent years, our school teachers have obtained 520 authorized patents, and the total number of intellectual property rights ranks 10th among 33 undergraduate colleges in the district and 1st among independent colleges in the district. According to the ranking of Wushulian Chinese Independent Colleges in 2020, the school ranks ninth in the country with A+ for natural sciences, and sixth in the country with A+ for engineering.
The school adheres to the socialist direction of running a school, adheres to the mission of "educating people for the party and cultivating talents for the country", implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, carries forward the school motto of "dedication, diligence, knowledge and action", adhering to "morality first, quality first" The educational philosophy of “Employment, Application and Innovation” strives to cultivate high-level applied talents with excellent ideological and moral character, reasonable knowledge structure, outstanding practical ability, innovative spirit, and broad vision. Graduates have been widely welcomed by the society, and the employment rate has been employed for many years. More than 95%, has successively won the honorary titles of "Outstanding Private Higher Education Institutions in China", "Civilized Campus" of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, "Outstanding Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of Guangxi College Graduates", and "Safe and Civilized Campus" of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
At present, the teachers and students of the school are concentrating their efforts to seek development, and are working hard to build Liuzhou Institute of Technology into a high-level and distinctive application-oriented university in China!