CQUT is situated in Ba’nan--just a quick bus ride from the heart of the city--on a beautiful 150-hectare campus. The university has a fixed assets of 2.1 billion RMB, with its facilities valued at 182 million RMB. The nine-story library, overlooking the waterfall and lake, boasts a collection of 2.3 million volumes. CQUT also contains many well-equipped workshops, laboratories, factories and training centers, and works with a total of 170 facilities both on-site and off-site.
Student life is diverse, as CQUT is home to students from every region, province and municipality in China, from Beijing to Tibet. Today, there are 24,000 full-time students (including 1,008 graduate students) studying across 55 undergraduate programs and 39 graduate programs in 17 schools and 56 research institutions. Each year, students compete throughout China in contests for mathematical modeling, electronic design, and technology, and have won over 300 titles. The Chinese Ministry of Education has ranked CQUT as one of the “Top 50 Universities in Promoting Students’ Employment.”
CQUT remains focused on engineering and technology, but also holds robust programs in language, business and computer science. A faculty of 1,701 teachers work in the university across all disciplines--nearly 75% of the school’s full-time teachers have either a Master’s or PhD. Faculty have produced over 4,100 research papers, many of them in top journals, and received numerous awards for teaching excellence.