Ningbo University of Technology and Engineering

The school adheres to the concept of cultural education, promotes the school spirit of "practical and precise", practices the school motto of "unity of knowledge and action", focuses on building campus cultural brands such as "craftsman spirit" and "Yangming culture", builds a multi-level campus cultural atmosphere that is distinctive, civilized, harmonious, healthy and positive, actively plays the role of environmental education, and comprehensively improves the comprehensive quality of students.

Looking ahead, Ningbo University of Technology and Engineering will anchor its goals, be innovative and practical, and forge ahead with determination. It will persist in taking moral education as its fundamental task, highlight its local, applied and international characteristics, serve the local economic construction and social development, and unswervingly strive towards the goal of becoming a first-class applied university.

The school was born of Ningbo. In 1983, Ningbo College, the first engineering university in Ningbo, came into being, riding the wave of reform and opening up. The school was established by virtue. At the beginning of its establishment, as one of the four universities aided to China by the former Federal Republic of Germany, it drew on the successful experience of Germany in implementing "engineer education" and the teaching system for cultivating applied talents, and set the goal of an applied school orientation. The school is strong by its application and became a national model ordinary higher engineering college in 1997; In 2004 it was upgraded and renamed Ningbo University of Technology and Engineering; In 2010, it became one of the first 61 universities to implement the "Outstanding Engineers Education and Training Program" by the Ministry of Education; Selected as a national university for industry-education integration in 2016; In 2021, it was approved as a master's degree awarding institution and was also selected for the National Education Power Project and the first batch of modern industry colleges in the country.

The school has good comprehensive educational conditions and complete infrastructure, with a total value of 560 million yuan for teaching and research equipment. The school deepens the implementation of the "talent-strong school" strategy, focuses on major national development strategies, international academic frontiers and major regional demands, adheres to the "recruitment and cultivation" approach, and strives to build a high-level applied teaching staff.

In 2025, the university achieved a breakthrough in the construction of provincial key laboratories and was newly approved as a provincial key laboratory for intelligent construction and operation and maintenance of deep-sea foundation. In addition to the existing 11 provincial-level research platforms, it also participates in the co-construction of two national-level research platforms, namely the China-CEEC Innovation Cooperation Research Center and the China-Mozambique Smart Agriculture "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory. The university's capacity for scientific and technological innovation has been continuously enhanced, and it has been listed among the top 10 research institutions in Ningbo for the past two years. Hangzhou Bay Automotive College and Robotics College have been selected as national and provincial modern industry college construction points respectively. Teaching reform and professional construction have achieved remarkable results. Five majors, namely civil engineering, computer science and technology, chemical engineering and technology, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, and logistics management, have been selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction points. Ten majors have been selected as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction points. Four majors have been selected as provincial advantageous and characteristic majors. Eleven majors have passed professional accreditation. Three national first-class undergraduate courses, 122 provincial first-class courses, two national teaching achievement awards and two Zhejiang provincial teaching achievement awards in the past three years. The practice of promoting teaching through competitions has become a prevailing trend, and the school has been recognized as a "Zhejiang Province Classroom Teaching Innovation School".

The school has explored and implemented reforms in talent cultivation models such as "integration of science, education, industry and education", outstanding engineers, new engineering and new liberal arts, to cultivate compound talents with the ability of applied research and application practice. Since its establishment, the school has cultivated more than 100,000 high-quality talents of all kinds. The employment rate of students in the year of graduation is around 95%, and the rate of students staying in Ningbo is over 50%. The school attaches great importance to innovation and entrepreneurship education and has one co-built national university science park and two national-level maker Spaces, namely Fenghua Youth Innovation Park and Hailanbao Maker Space. It ranked 132nd in the country and 6th in the province in the 2023 National College Students' competition ranking.

The school has strengthened its research base and team building, vigorously carried out applied research and technological development, and won two national science and technology awards. In the past five years, 43 provincial and ministerial-level or above scientific research awards have been obtained, and more than 200 provincial and ministerial-level or above projects have been undertaken. In 2020, it was supported by the municipal top talent project; A number of high-level papers have been published in top domestic and international journals, and 655 valid invention patents have been granted.

The school is fully integrated into the local economic and social development, actively facing the main battlefield of local economic and social development, tackling key core technologies urgently needed in the construction of local pillar industries such as port-related petrochemicals, intelligent manufacturing, port and shipping logistics, and major local infrastructure such as rail transit and port Bridges, and promoting the transformation and application of technological achievements with the support of industry-university-research collaboration innovation in key industries. Over the past five years, the school has served around 2,000 enterprises and established a number of national, provincial and municipal modern industrial colleges, including the Hangzhou Bay Automotive College, the Green Petrochemical Industry College and the Robotics College. The university has established local research institutes such as the China-Ukraine New Materials Research Institute, Xiangshan Research Institute, Fenghua Research Institute, etc. Establish a number of research institutions focusing on industrial services and social construction, such as the Institute of Automotive Crash Safety and Lightweighting, the Institute of Regional Development and Common Prosperity, the Institute of Development for the Elderly and Children, and the Institute of Rural Revitalization.

The university conducts extensive international cooperation, draws on advanced foreign experience, strengthens its outward-oriented educational characteristics, and collaborates with Delaware State University and Wayne State University in the United States to offer majors such as accounting, information and computing science, and mechanical design, manufacturing and automation; It has established intercollegiate partnerships with over 130 institutions in more than 30 countries and regions, and has trained nearly 800 international students from more than 70 countries. The school has one Confucius Institute in Grenada, a North American country in the Caribbean. It attaches great importance to scientific and technological cooperation and talent exchange with overseas countries, and jointly builds national-level scientific and technological cooperation platforms such as the China-CEEC Innovation Cooperation Research Center with the municipal science and technology bureau.