Huaiyin Institute of Technology is an ordinary undergraduate college in Jiangsu Province, located in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. The university is a master's degree-granting unit, a pilot university of the national "Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program" and "Outstanding Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program", the first and second batch of pilot universities of the "New Engineering" research and practice project of the Ministry of Education, and the "Hundred Cities and Thousands of Schools" of the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance It is one of the first batch of pilot universities in the plan, a demonstration base for industry-university-research cooperation and innovation in China, a vice chairman unit of the National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Alliance, a vice chairman unit of the Applied Undergraduate Branch of the China Education Association for International Exchange, a chairman unit of the Sutai Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance, and a vice president unit of the Jiangsu Provincial Higher Education Association.
Regarding the question of whether Huaiyin Institute of Technology has a master's degree, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, the school is a master's degree-granting unit, so Huaiyin Institute of Technology has a master's degree. According to the information released on the school's official website, as of April 2023, Huaiyin Institute of Technology has 22 teaching and research units and 71 undergraduate majors. It has been independently training full-time master's students for 13 years, and was approved as a master's degree-granting unit in 2021There are master's degree authorization points in materials and chemical engineering, transportation, agriculture and other majorsPiece. In addition, there are a total of 4 electronic information, transportation, industrial engineering and management, and logistics engineering and managementjoint professional master's degree authorization points with Nanjing University of Technology.
Huaiyin Institute of Technology was established in March 2000 by the merger of the former Huaiyin Industrial College, the Transportation Branch of Huaiyin Industrial College, Jiangsu Agricultural Reclamation University and Huaiyin University of Technology. Among them, Huaiyin Industrial College was founded in 1958;The transportation branch of Huaiyin Industrial College originated from the Huaihai Transportation Vocational College established in 1985Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Reclamation University was founded in 1964Huaiyin Staff University was founded in 1975. In 2011, the school became a postgraduate training unit for master's degrees. In 2021, with the approval of the Academic Degrees Committee, the school became a master's degree-granting unit.
As of September 2023, Huaiyin Institute of Technology has three campuses, Meicheng Road, Beijing Road and Xiaohu, covering an area of 1.7 million square meters (about 2,550 acres) and a campus area of 710,000 square metersThere are 2 full-time studentsMore than 20,000 people, including more than 1,000 master's students;There are more than 1,600 faculty members, including more than 1,300 full-time teachers.
In terms of discipline construction, a total of four disciplines of mechanical engineering, software engineering, crop science, and traffic and transportation engineering of Huaiyin Institute of Technology have been listed as provincial key construction disciplines. In terms of teaching construction, Huaiyin Institute of Technology has 9 majors that have passed the certification of engineering education majors, 8 national first-class undergraduate majors, 2 national characteristic majors, 8 national excellence plan pilot majors, and 2 national "professional comprehensive reform" pilot projectsThere are 17 provincial first-class professional construction sites, 4 provincial brand characteristic professional construction sites, and 4 provincial industry-education integration brand majors1 provincial key industry college was approved.
In terms of comprehensive strength, according to the ranking of universities in the ranking version of the rankings, Huaiyin Institute of Technology will rank 293rd in the country in 2023;According to the data released by the University Rankings of the China Alumni Association of iResearch, Huaiyin Institute of Technology will rank 351st in the country in 2023;Huaiyin Institute of Technology is ranked 31st in Jiangsu Province.
It is worth noting that there were previous rumors that Huaiyin Institute of Technology had been successfully approved by the Ministry of Education to be upgraded to Huai'an University, and later the official response of Huaiyin Institute of Technology was that this news was a fake news. For this reason, many netizens have aroused heated discussions, and some netizens suggested that since they plan to change their name, they should simply take one step and strive to change their name to "Jiangsu University of Technology". This should be more promising, no matter what kind of name Huaiyin Institute of Technology can be changed to in the future, I hope that the school can develop better and better, and make greater contributions to the regional economy and education.