North China University of Technology

University Description

Located in the breathtaking west side of Beijing, North China University of Technology has a long history and people of great talent come out in multitude from this institute of higher education. First founded in 1946, now NCUT has developed into a multidisciplinary university centered on engineering and compatible both in arts and science, possessing multiple education levels including bachelor, master and PhD and authorized degree qualifications. Co-established by Beijing and central government, NCUT is administrated mainly by Beijing. With an enrollment of more than 15000 students, the university has more than 10000 full time undergraduate students, 2000 graduate students, 3000 students studying at the College of Continuing Education, 800 international students, and more than 1000 faculty and staff. It is one of the most beautiful universities in Beijing with an area of 500 hectares and 400 thousand square meters of overall floorage.

The university has been focused on talent cultivation and improving education quality, forming the education characteristic of individualized teaching, quality-oriented, and all-round development. The university assumes the responsibility of cultivating high-level application-oriented talents with strong practical capabilities and attempt with great efforts to improve students’ technology application abilities and practical operation abilities. Upholding the philosophy of human-oriented and individualized teaching, NCUT has constructed the Talents Cultivation System of stratified teaching, distributary cultivation and classified talents with over ten years’ efforts. As a state-level innovated experimental area of talent cultivation, the university implements flexible credit system, stratified and distributary teaching system and autonomously changing majors system and build up high informationalized teaching and management system and humanized students service system, satisfying students’ demands for autonomous study, all-round development and individualized growth. As university students’ culture and quality education base of nation and Beijing, the university has constantly stressed on students’ scientific quality and human spirit cultivation. NCUT is the first civilized campus with the first art museum among the national colleges of science and engineering, as well as the first to open compulsory courses such as College Chinese and College Aesthetic Education and other courses. The Four Big Festivals including Students’ Culture, Art, Science and Physical Education have been held continually for over thirty years, evolving into the campus’ cultural brands.