Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the filing and approval results of undergraduate majors in common universities and colleges in 2022. GUST has added one major -- art and technology. So far, our school has reached six art majors, and the major structure will be further optimized.
Art and technology is an interdisciplinary major that closely combines art design and science development, which mainly studies the basic knowledge and skills of design, art and digital technology. It mainly offers courses such as "Dynamic Digital Image Technology", "Network Art Design", "Foundation of Space Design" and "Futurve Architectural Design". In line with the national cultural development strategy, this major aims to cultivate high-quality innovative talents who can adapt to the development of modern art design market and the needs of large-scale exhibition economy industry, and also master exhibition planning, spatial plastic arts, digital commercial display and other skills, and have interdisciplinary basis and innovative ability.
It is understood that the new major-- art and technology will start to recruit students this year. At that time, the number of undergraduate majors in our school has increased to 46, including 21 engineering majors, 10 management majors, 5 economics majors, 4 literature majors and 6 art majors, which will provide more options for the majority of candidates to apply for our school in the future.
In recent years, GUST focuses on application innovation and the construction of application disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines, who strives to create the characteristics of "rooted in industry, docking standards, strengthening application and collaborative innovation" application-oriented disciplines. Software engineering is a provincial key discipline, and has been successfully selected as the national first-class professional construction point. Three majors, network engineering, financial management and logistics management, have been selected as the first class undergraduate major construction points in Guangdong province. Four majors, including fashion design and engineering, are provincial characteristic cultivation majors. Three majors, including automobile service engineering, are provincial comprehensive reform pilot major. Six majors, including Internet of Things engineering, mechanical and electronic engineering, and electronic information engineering, have passed IEET engineering and science and technology education certification. Fifteen majors such as e-commerce, financial management, accounting and business English will be certified as ACBSP international business majors.
At the same time, in the 2022 Ranking of Chinese University First-class Majors (applied) released by cuaa.net, GUST has 9 Chinese six-star majors (6★), 9 Chinese five-star majors (5★), 4 Chinese four-star majors (4★), and 9 Chinese three-star majors (3★), ranking 78th in China and 7th in the province as a whole.
Next, GUST will further optimize its professional structure, continuously strengthen its professional features and improve its professional connotation and construction level, making every effort to improve its educational quality and competitiveness, so as to effectively guarantee the quality of personnel training in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.