China (Qingdao University of Technology)

Qingdao University of technology is a multidisciplinary university focusing on engineering, with distinct characteristics in civil engineering, machinery manufacturing, environment and energy, and coordinated development of science, engineering, economics, management, grammar and art. It is the construction unit of the "111 plan" of the first batch of local colleges and universities in China, the first batch of national demonstration colleges and universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, a famous school with characteristics for the cultivation of applied basic talents in Shandong Province, and the first batch of high-level universities with "strong characteristics" in Shandong Province.

Founded in 1952, the school was successively subordinate to the former Ministry of heavy industry and the former Ministry of metallurgical industry. In 1998, it was transferred to the leadership of Shandong Province to implement the management system of "joint construction between the central and local governments and focusing on local management". After the period of Shandong Institute of metallurgy and Qingdao Institute of architecture and engineering, it was renamed Qingdao University of technology in 2004. It began to recruit undergraduate students in 1960, and was approved as a master's degree awarding unit in 1993 and a doctor's degree awarding unit in 2005.