Guilin University of Technology (GUT), is a state owned university founded in 1956, situated in the world-famous scenic city of Guilin in Guangxi Province. GUT has developed into a university of multiple disciplines. With Engineering taking the lead there are a total of 8 primary disciplines in development, including science, management, liberal, economics, law, arts and agriculture. The education of postgraduate, undergraduate, higher vocation and adult continuing education have been developing harmoniously.
Covering more than 220 hectares, GUT has four campus: Guilin Pingfeng, Guilin Yanshan, Nanning Anji, and Nanning Konggang, and 19 colleges with 68 undergraduate programs, 37 Master authorizations, 3 Post-doctoral centers, as well as 6 Ph.D. authorizations.Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering and Environmental Ecology, and Earth Science have entered the top 1% of the ESI world discipline rankings. 15 majors have passed engineering education professional certification (evaluation), and 2 majors have passed international professional certification.Currently there are more than 2600 faculty and staff members, 46,000 full-time students in GUT.
For the purposes of promoting the international exchanges and cooperation, GUT has insisted on an opening-up policy, actively built an international cooperation system which is all-round, multi-level and in various forms. So far the university has established cooperative relations with over 100 colleges from 30 countries, including the United States, UK, Australia, Japan, Russia, Malaysia, Vietnam and so on. It also signed academic exchanges, personnel training and scientific research cooperation agreements with 50 famous universities. The international education has developed steadily- so far there are over 7000 students have had courses at GUT from more than 60 countries.