Hunan Institute of Engineering (HIE) is located in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, the hometown of the great man Mao Zedong. It is a full-time ordinary institution of higher education approved by the Ministry of Education and run by the People's Government of Hunan Province. The university is a master's degree-granting unit, one of the first batch of universities implementing the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, one of the first batch of pilot universities for master's professional degree in the "Special Needs Talent Training Program for Serving the Country", the chairman unit of the National University-Enterprise Alliance for Excellent Engineering Education of Local Universities, one of the first batch of universities selected into the "2011 Plan" of Hunan Province, a high-level applied characteristic college under the "Double First-Class" construction of Hunan Province, and a university admitting students in the first batch of undergraduate programs in Hunan Province.
Hunan Institute of Engineering was established in June 2000 by merging the former Xiangtan College of Mechanical and Electrical Technology and Hunan College of Textile Technology. The former Xiangtan College of Mechanical and Electrical Technology, founded in 1951, was affiliated to the former Ministry of Machinery Industry and was a key construction university of national demonstration higher engineering colleges. The former Hunan College of Textile Technology, founded in 1978, was affiliated to the former Hunan Provincial Department of Textile Industry. From 1958 to 1963, "Xiangtan Electrical Machinery Institute", the predecessor of Xiangtan College of Mechanical and Electrical Technology, offered undergraduate education for 5 years.
The university currently has 2 campuses: the Main Campus and the Shuyuan Road Campus. Adjacent to rivers and lakes, the campuses are elegant in environment and full of scholarly atmosphere. Covering an area of 1830.6 mu (about 1.22 square kilometers) with a building area of 588,000 square meters, it is a "Garden-style Unit" and a "Model Civilized Campus" in Hunan Province. Adhering to engineering education for 74 years with profound accumulation, the university has always been rooted in Hunan, oriented to the whole country and serving the grassroots, and has delivered more than 200,000 high-quality applied talents to the electromechanical, textile industries and social and economic construction.
With engineering as its main focus and coordinated development of multiple disciplines, the university covers 6 disciplinary categories including engineering, management, literature, science, economics and art, forming advantageous professional clusters such as electrical engineering, machinery, textile, chemical engineering, management and information. It currently has 18 teaching units, 49 undergraduate enrollment majors and 2 professional master's degree programs. Its engineering discipline has entered the top 1% globally in ESI (Essential Science Indicators), and its achievements in engineering education reform have won the Second Prize of National Teaching Achievements. There are 8 applied characteristic disciplines under the "Double First-Class" construction of Hunan Province; 8 majors implementing the "Excellence Program" of the Ministry of Education; 6 national-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites and 24 provincial-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites. The enrollment work is mainly based on general recruited students, and carries out multi-channel, multi-level and multi-form international exchanges and cooperation, including cooperative education with universities such as the University of the Highlands and Islands in the United Kingdom. The university fully implements the enrollment principles of "governing enrollment according to law, fair competition, impartial selection, openness and transparency, and merit-based admission", formulates scientific, fair and clear standards, rules and procedures for various types of enrollment, strictly checks and controls, standardizes procedures and ensures transparent processes. We sincerely welcome aspiring students to apply for Hunan Institute of Engineering.
