Taiyuan University of Technology

Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT) has its history traced all the way back to the Western Learning School of Shanxi Grand Academy (1902), which was one of the three earliest national universities in China. The University has 22 colleges and departments, and offers 76 undergraduate programs, 126 graduate programs, and 49 doctoral programs.

TUT advocates scientific research and technological development and activates the basic applied research. In July 2014, there were 24, 539 undergraduates, 4744 postgraduates and 696 doctoral candidates. There were also on campus approximately long-term international students from 21 countries. Among them, there were 42 Degree-Seeking students.

Taiyuan University of Technology is famous for outstanding research facilities. oday the University has 936 professors and associate professors, of whom 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science, and 6 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. At present, Taiyuan University of Technology has 3 national authorized disciplines, 11 state key laboratories, 11 provincial engineering research centers.

Taiyuan University of Technology library is the only university library collecting famous retrieval systems(SCI/EI/ISTP/CA) in Shanxi Province, with a collection of 1.87 million books, and Chinese and foreign journals and newspapers. The library leads the province in the development of Digital Libraries.

In the last decade, TUT has never stopped making efforts to turn itself into an internationalized university by enrolling students from all over the world, exchanging its students with the universities in other countries and running joint-education programs with the colleges and universities from overseas. TUT is in cooperation with countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Japan and others. With more frequent exchange at the international academic stage, TUT is now winning more and more reputation worldwide.

Taiyuan University of Technology