On April 6, the national third-party university evaluation agency cuaa network announced the "2023 China University Ranking". GUST was rated as China's top 6-star applied university and ranked the 10th in the national comprehensive private university. This is the first time that our school has been ranked in the top 10 of any major rankings.
It is reported that China University ranking on the cuaa.net was first launched in 2003, which has 21 years of history and has become a wide range of social influence, credibility, reference value and innovation of Chinese university ranking leading brand. "China University Ranking on the cuaa.net" is the most comprehensive, objective and independent evaluation system in China, with the most stable evaluation system and evaluation methods and the largest number of evaluation indicators and participating universities, which is the most consistent with national policies and value-oriented as well.
China University Ranking evaluation index system according to the 2023 cuaa.net is composed of 12 first-level indicators, including school-running level, ideological and political education, teaching quality, outstanding alumni, high-level talents, disciplines and specialties, scientific research projects, scientific research bases, scientific research achievements, social services, social reputation and international influence. Supported by 360-degree Panoramic Data Platform on the cuaa.net, it covers more than 700 core evaluation indicators that reflect the quality and level of running Chinese universities, and guides Chinese universities to enhance their ability to serve national and local economic and social development.
In recent years, GUST actively serves the national strategy and regional economic and social development, and always adhere to the moral cultivation as the fundamental, connotation construction as the driving force, discipline construction as the key. According to the overall working idea of "stable scale, excellent conditions, deep connotation, characteristics, quality improvement, brand establishment", GUST continues to promote the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, and to deepen education and teaching reform, so as to build a high ground for personnel training and innovative services, and constantly improve the school's educational level.
GUST focuses on application innovation and the construction of application disciplines, and cultivates interdisciplinary disciplines. GUST has built a core team of "Golden Triangle" , which is composed of professional leaders, principals of specialty construction, and directors of the teaching and research department. With the three major measures of professional certification, professional star awarding, and professional cluster as the starting point, GUST promotes interdisciplinary integration and disciplinary integration construction, and strives to build "rooted in industry, docking standards, strengthening application, collaborative innovation "applied discipline specialty characteristics. At present, GUST has 45 undergraduate majors, 1 national first-class undergraduate major construction, 3 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction, 4 provincial characteristic cultivation majors, 3 provincial comprehensive reform pilot majors, and 6 majors have passed IEET engineering and science and technology education certification, 15 majors carry out international business professional certification.
GUST focuses on joint efforts to improve the level of scientific research, teaching and research innovation. In 2022, the university has invested more than 68 million yuan in scientific research, and has received approval for 228 scientific research projects at all levels and 19 educational and teaching research projects. The faculty and staff have published 832 papers, 27 published works (edited), 34 authorized patents and 12 software Copyrights. Students has won 719 awards at or above the provincial level (96 at the national level and 623 at the provincial level) in various disciplines competitions, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year. GUST has signed a strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement with Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, which focuses on the cultivation of four master's programs including machinery, electronic information, business administration and accounting. At present, a total of 26 teachers have been successfully employed by Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, South China Normal University and other well-known universities in the province as postgraduate supervisors.
The school focuses on the integration of production and education and actively explores new modes of talent training. In 2022, the university has been approved 34 industry-university cooperative education projects by the Ministry of Education, ranking first among similar institutions in Guangdong. Since 2017, our students have won more than 80 awards in various national, provincial and municipal innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. Since 2019, more than 40 projects have been successfully incubated, with the highest project valuation exceeding 200 million yuan. It has established 11 industrial colleges with Huawei, Tencent, Siemens and other well-known enterprises and associations. Among them, the construction of Huawei ICT Industry College has made remarkable achievements, standing out among more than 400 ICT colleges in China and winning the award of Huawei "Excellent ICT Academy 2022".
Next, GUST will build on the new journey of high-quality development, continue to adhere to the guidance of the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, implement the fundamental task of moral education and cultivating people, gather strength for the construction of "Quality Year", and forge ahead with the "14th Five-Year Plan". With anchor goals and firm confidence, GUST will write a new chapter for the high-quality development.