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Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences
China

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Official website: https://www.usx.edu.cn/
Tel：0575-88345555
Address：Main Campus: No. 508, Huancheng West Road, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province; Shangyu Campus: No. 368, Dongshan Road, Shangyu District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province; Nanshan Campus: No. 900, Chengnan Avenue, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province; Lanting Campus: Opposite to Lanting Scenic Area, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province
Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences is a general full-time comprehensive college approved by the Ministry of Education. It is located in the historical and cultural city of Shaoxing. The school's history originated from the Shanhui Junior Normal School founded in 1909. Mr. Lu Xun served as the supervisor (principal) of the Shanhui Junior Normal School. In 1996, Shaoxing Normal College and Shaoxing Higher Vocational College merged to establish Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences. In 2000, Shaoxing Health School, Shangyu Normal School, and Shaoxing Urban and Rural Construction Workers Secondary Vocational School were successively incorporated. In 2005, the school passed the undergraduate teaching level assessment of the Ministry of Education with good results. In 2013, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as a master's degree awarding institution. In December 2022, it was approved by the Zhejiang Provincial Academic Degrees Committee as a doctoral degree awarding project construction unit. The school has campuses such as the headquarters (Fengzejiang, Nanshan), Lanting, and Shangyu, covering an area of 2,238.78 acres and a total construction area of 744,300 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 606 million yuan, the library has 2.0972 million paper books, about 1.3654 million electronic books, 3.0117 million Chinese and foreign electronic journals, and 52 databases. There are 15 secondary colleges. The school recruits students from 26 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and currently has more than 17,000 full-time students. There are also independent colleges (Yuanpei College) and directly affiliated hospitals. The school fully implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and strives to cultivate high-quality application-oriented talents with a strong sense of social responsibility, strong innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and practical ability. The school currently has 67 undergraduate majors, covering nine disciplines, 4 national first-class professional construction sites, 3 national characteristic majors, 12 provincial first-class professional construction sites, 23 provincial key (advantage, characteristic) majors, 2 provincial postgraduate joint training bases, 6 provincial key construction experimental teaching demonstration centers, 8 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 7 provincial college students' off-campus practice bases, and 2 provincial college ideological and political master studios. In the selection of the past two teaching achievement awards, it won 2 national first prizes and 3 provincial first prizes. It won 1 second prize in the first National Textbook Construction Award. The school is a "National Excellent Popularization Base for Humanities and Social Sciences", "National Second Batch of Demonstration Point Project Schools for College English Teaching Reform", "Zhejiang Province Application-oriented Construction Pilot College", "Zhejiang Province's 'Three-dimensional Education' Comprehensive Reform Pilot Unit", "Zhejiang Province Classroom Teaching Innovation School", "Zhejiang Province Course Ideological and Political Demonstration School", "Zhejiang Province's First Batch of 1+X Certificate System Pilot Colleges", "Zhejiang Province Teacher Education Base", "Zhejiang Province Key Construction Teacher Training Base", "Zhejiang Province's First Batch of College Cultural Campus Construction Pilot Units", "Zhejiang Province College Foreign Students Calligraphy Education Base", "Zhejiang Calligraphers Association Calligraphy Creation Base", "Zhejiang University Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base", "Zhejiang Province's First Batch of Provincial Entrepreneurship Training Demonstration Bases", and "Zhejiang Provincial Innovation Space". "Fengzejiang Lecture Hall", "Love Commitment" and "Excellence Scholarship" selection for graduates are excellent campus cultural brands of colleges and universities nationwide. The college system reform and civilized dormitory construction have twice won the first prize for outstanding achievements and innovative achievements in student apartment work in colleges and universities nationwide. The college student subject competition has won the first prize in the country many times, and the total score ranks among the top similar colleges and universities in the province. Graduates are well received by the society. The initial employment rate of graduates in the past five classes has remained at around 95%, and the employer satisfaction survey one year after graduation ranks among the top universities in the province. The school insists on taking discipline construction as the leader, actively promotes connotation construction and collaborative innovation, and comprehensively improves the level of scientific research and social service capabilities. It has 17 master's degree programs, including 8 first-level discipline master's degree authorization programs and 9 professional degree master's degree authorization programs; 6 provincial first-class disciplines (Class B); 4 disciplines of engineering, chemistry, environmental science/ecology, and computer science are among the top 1% in the world in the ESI international discipline ranking. It has 17 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms such as the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Rock Mechanics and Geological Hazards and the Ministry of Education's first batch of national general colleges and universities Chinese excellent traditional culture inheritance bases. It cooperates to build 5 national key laboratories and engineering research center sub-centers, co-builds a calligraphy base with the Ministry of Education's Chinese and Foreign Cultural Exchange Center, and cooperates with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain to establish the Zhejiang Technology Transfer Center, actively serving regional innovation and development and industrial transformation and upgrading. It has won 1 second prize in the National Science and Technology Invention Award as the first completing unit. In the past five years, teachers of the school have won 68 scientific research achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above. The school actively implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, insists on combining introduction and training, optimizes the structure of the teaching staff, and continuously improves the overall level. There are more than 1,900 faculty members, including more than 1,100 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are more than 580 senior professional titles, and more than 57% of them have doctoral degrees. There are 21 national talents such as academicians of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, academicians of the Norwegian Academy of Engineering, candidates for Zhejiang Province's top talent program, winners of the "Hans Cloos Medal", winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and Yangtze River Scholars of the Ministry of Education, and 36 provincial and ministerial talents and above such as experts with special government allowances from the State Council, the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, and winners of the Zhejiang Province Outstanding Youth Fund. There are 1 provincial university innovation team, 1 provincial key science and technology innovation team (cooperation), 2 provincial university high-level innovation teams, 4 provincial excellent teaching teams, 3 national excellent teachers, 3 provincial teaching masters, and 8 provincial teaching newcomers. The school insists on taking the path of internationalization, carrying out international talent training and scientific research cooperation in a wide range of fields and channels, and the internationalization level of education is constantly improving. It has established inter-school cooperation and exchange relations with more than 70 universities in 27 countries (regions), including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, and Japan. It has the qualifications to recruit and train international students in China, and a total of international students from 34 countries come to the school to study Chinese language, Chinese culture, and undergraduate and master's professional courses. It has an undergraduate education program in preschool education approved by the Ministry of Education and jointly organized with the University of Burgos in Spain. In addition, 11 overseas "Lanting Calligraphy Schools" have been established in 10 countries on four continents. At present, the school holds high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, takes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guidance, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, firmly grasps the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, fully implements the Party's education policy, upholds the school-running philosophy of "advocating academics, teachers and students-oriented", upholds the school motto of "cultivating morality and seeking truth", adheres to the development policy of quality first, talent-oriented, characteristics first, and collaboration as the key, comprehensively promotes intensive development and application-oriented construction, takes improving quality as the core, serves the local area as the orientation, cultivates high-level application-oriented talents as the main goal, promotes the integration of industry and education, and school-enterprise cooperation as the main path, optimizes the governance structure, cultivates school-running characteristics, expands campus space, comprehensively improves the level and level of school-running, and strives to move towards the goal of a high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.