Liaoning Shihua University

Liaoning Shihua University was the first petroleum industry school in New China. It was founded in Dalian in 1950 and moved to Fushun in 1953. It was upgraded to Fushun Petroleum Institute in 1958. In February 2000, it was transferred from China Petrochemical Corporation to the leadership of the people 's government of Liaoning Province. In February 2002, it was renamed Liaoning Shihua University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In March 2010, the People's Government of Liaoning Province signed an agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation to jointly build the university.
Since its establishment 71 years ago, the university has developed into a multi-disciplinary university with petroleum and petrochemical characteristics and coordinated development of eight disciplines including engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, education and art. In 2007, the university was evaluated by the Ministry of Education for the quality of undergraduate teaching and received an excellent score. The school has been designated by the Ministry of Education as a basic training base for high-level talents of ethnic minorities, a training base for ethnic minority undergraduate preparatory students, and a training base for urgently needed undergraduate talents in petrochemical industry in Liaoning Province. So far, more than 130,000 graduates have been trained, most of whom have become management and technical backbones in the national petroleum and petrochemical industry.
The school adheres to an intensive development path centered on quality improvement, establishes the central position of talent cultivation, continuously optimizes the discipline and professional structure and the teaching staff, significantly improves the school conditions, and effectively enhances the school's educational level and comprehensive strength. The school covers an area of 1,890 mu and has a total building area of 840,000 square meters. The library has a total of 2.519 million volumes of books and 46 electronic literature databases. The school has 20 colleges and more than 18,000 full-time students. The university is A first-class discipline (Class A) construction university in Liaoning Province, with 2 joint doctoral programs, 14 first-level discipline master's programs, and 47 second-level discipline master's programs. As well as 10 categories of master's professional degrees in materials and chemical engineering, resources and environment, Energy and power, electronic information, Mechanical engineering, Business Administration (MBA), Public Administration (MPA), Accounting (MPAcc), Translation (MTI), and Arts (MFA). Engineering has entered the top 1% of ESI global rankings. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, five disciplines entered the top 70%, with Chemical Engineering and Technology and Control Science and Engineering ranking first among provincial universities in Liaoning Province.
The university has 58 undergraduate programs, including 9 national first-class undergraduate programs, 4 characteristic programs, 6 pilot programs of the Ministry of Education's Program for Training Outstanding Engineers (including 1 in the master's field), 1 comprehensive reform pilot program, and 5 programs certified by China Engineering Education. Three national experimental teaching demonstration centers, two virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, two engineering practice education centers, and two virtual simulation experimental teaching projects have been established. There are 22 provincial first-class undergraduate programs, 1 advantageous and characteristic program, 5 innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot programs, 11 application-oriented transformation pilot programs, 5 application-oriented transformation demonstration programs, 2 comprehensive reform pilot programs, 7 engineering talent cultivation mode reform pilot programs, 2 key support programs, 5 demonstration programs, and 2 characteristic programs. 29 provincial-level centers and bases for experimental teaching and practical training, 9 resource-sharing courses, 2 video open courses, and 2 bilingual teaching demonstration courses have been approved. Since 2013, the school has won 42 provincial-level or above teaching achievement awards and 8 provincial-level excellent textbooks have been approved. Students' innovation and entrepreneurship activities have been widely carried out. In the past three years, students have won 702 national awards and 1,439 provincial and ministerial awards in subject competitions and scientific and technological innovation activities, and have been designated by the Communist Youth League Central Committee as a KAB entrepreneurship education base for college students and a KAB entrepreneurship club university.
Founded in 2009, the International Education College has trained 2,550 international students from over 80 countries around the world and more than 500 students in Sino-foreign cooperative education programs. The college is committed to promoting international cultural and educational exchanges and cooperation, providing an important stage for students from China and abroad to interact with each other. Since 2012, Liaoning Shihua University has been eligible to admit Chinese government Scholarship students, and since 2017, it has been eligible to admit Chinese Government Scholarship students along the Silk Road.

The International Education College is composed of departments such as the College Office, the International Student Admissions Office, the student Affairs Office, and the academic Affairs Office. The college is well-equipped, has an advanced management system and a strong teaching staff. At the same time, the integrated education of the whole school makes all the resources of the whole school available to the college, and thus can carry out teaching and research work based on the advantages of the school's disciplines. The college adheres to teaching as the center, talent cultivation as the goal, and characteristic education as the means. It gives full play to its established characteristics and advantages, constantly improves the quality of teaching, and strives to provide high-level international student education to meet the needs of all aspects. The undergraduate and postgraduate programs taught in English for international students include Petroleum Engineering, Civil Engineering, Oil and Gas storage and Transportation Engineering, chemical engineering and Technology, electrical engineering and automation, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, Mining Engineering, computer science and technology, Business Administration, etc.

In the promising and challenging 21st century, the International Education College of Liaoning Shihua University adheres to the path of distinctive education and aims to cultivate more outstanding professional and Chinese language talents for the world.

We welcome students from all over the world to study at Liaoning Shihua University.