Dalian Polytechnic University was founded in 1958 and is located in Dalian, liaoning Province. It is a higher education institution with engineering as its main discipline and coordinated development of six disciplines: engineering, science, art, literature, management, and economics. It is characterized by cultivating professionals in light industry, textile, food, art, etc. It has produced more than 60,000 graduates of all kinds for the country. The university has three first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, one postdoctoral research station, 14 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and three professional degree categories including master of Engineering, Master of Fine arts, and Master of agriculture. The university has five key disciplines of Liaoning Province and three of its first-level disciplines have been rated as first-class characteristic disciplines of Liaoning Province universities.
The university has 15 colleges (departments), 50 regular undergraduate programs and 2 international cooperative programs. It has more than 15,000 full-time undergraduate students and more than 1,600 postgraduate students. Dalian Polytechnic University has the qualifications for the Chinese Government Scholarship, the Liaoning Provincial Government Scholarship and the Silk Road Scholarship. It admits more than 500 international students of all kinds each year. In recent years, it has received more than 3,200 international students.
The university has nearly 900 full-time faculty members, including one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, more than 400 professors and associate professors, and more than 400 doctoral and master's supervisors (including those hired externally). In line with the trend of internationalization of higher education, the school has carried out exchanges and cooperation with more than 90 universities in over 40 countries and regions including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan and South Korea, including student exchanges, scientific research and various international academic conferences. At present, The university has intercollegiate exchange programs with many internationally renowned universities, including the University of Southampton in the UK, Iowa State University in the US, the University of Queensland in Australia, Ritsumeikan University in Japan, and Hokuriku Advanced University of Science and Technology in Japan, such as undergraduate "2+2" programs, undergraduate "3+1" programs, postgraduate "2+1" programs, postgraduate "1+1+1" programs, and integrated undergraduate and postgraduate programs Short-term exchange programs, state-sponsored study abroad programs, etc. Since 2011, we have collaborated with the University of Southampton in the UK to carry out Sino-foreign cooperative education programs in two undergraduate majors, Visual Communication Design and Fashion and Apparel Design, expanding the forms of our international cooperative education.
