At present, HFUT enrolls 29,480 undergraduate students and 11,800 graduate students.
Campuses and departments
HFUT has four campuses, namely, Tunxilu, Lu’anlu, Feicuihu and Xuancheng, covering an area of about 3,417,390 m2. The first three campuses are all located in Hefei, the provincial capital of Anhui, and the fourth in Xuancheng, a city about 194 kilometers away from Hefei.
Campuses in Hefei have 19 schools covering a wide range of fields with a strong focus on engineering science. The schools offer 82 undergraduate programs, 32 first-level disciples with authorization to confer master's degrees, 12 first-level disciples for doctoral programs as well as 12 post-doctoral programs. 4 disciplines are selected as national key disciplines, 28 provincial key disciplines. The university has 1 state key lab, 1 national engineering lab, 4 national university-industry joint engineering research centers and 46 research centers at the ministerial or provincial level as well as 1 national A-level architectural design and research institute. The campus in Xuancheng has 5 departments.
Participation in Education and Development Plan for Outstanding Engineers
It has made remarkable achievements in student education. Throughout the years, key disciplines, courses, textbooks, teaching and experiment centers, teaching staff of HFUT have won numerous awards at all levels, highly reputed in China[citation needed]. It is among the first batch of 61 pilot colleges and universities to conduct the Education and Development Plan for Outstanding Engineers initiated by the Ministry of Education. About 200 projects carried out by HFUT students have been funded by the National University Student Innovation Program.
In 2013, the university had an annual research funding in sciences of over RMB 447 Million. Total number of applications for invention patents was 357, of which 204 have been licensed.
Schools and Colleges in HFUT
School of Marxism
School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics
Technician College of Hefei University and Technology
College of Continuing Education
Department of Sports and Physical Education
School of Microelectronics
School of Foreign Languages
School of Mathematics
School of Software
School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering
School of Civil Engineering
School of Management
School of Computer Science and Information Engineering (School of artificial Intelligence)
School of Materials Science & Engineering
School of Architecture and Arts
School of Economics
School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering and Automation
School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
Notable alumni
Miao Wei - Minister of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China
Ni Yuefeng - Minister of General Administration Customs of the People's Republic of China
