桂林理工大学成立于1956年，位于世界著名的风景旅游城市—广西桂林，是一所历史悠久的国立高等学校。

学校现有四个校区，校园总面积为3300亩。目前，学校下设19个学院，有75个本科专业，21个一级学科硕士学位授权点，3个博士后科研流动站，3个一级学科博士学位授权点。各类全日制在校生40000余人,是一所以工学为主，理、管、文、经、法、艺、农8大学科门类，研究生教育、本科生教育、高等职业教育和成人教育协调发展的多科性高等学校。

学校以应用型高级专门人才培养为目标定位，拥有地质、环境、材料、土木、测绘、旅游、管理等优势重点学科并形成了鲜明的特色。其中，测绘工程、旅游管理和工商管理等工程和管理类专业排名均位居全国前列。

学校注重扩大教育规模和提高教学质量，同时大力开展科学研究。学校曾获广西高校科研成果最高奖项——国家科技进步特等奖，还获得国家技术发明二等奖和广西科技进步一等奖等奖项。半个多世纪以来，学校共为国家培养了近10万名各类高级专业技术和管理人才。全校毕业生的初次就业率均达90%以上，其毕业生以专业基础知识扎实和动手能力强受到广大企、事业单位的欢迎和好评。

学校以坚持开放办学，推进国际交流与教育合作，提升国际影响力和竞争力为目标，积极构建全方位、多层次、多形式的对外交流与合作体系。学校先后与美国、英国、澳大利亚、日本、俄罗斯、马来西亚等30多个国家的100多所高校建立了友好合作关系，与其中50余所高校签订了学术交流、人才培养与科研合作协议。外国留学生教育工作稳步开展，至今已培养了来自60多个国家的各类留学生6600余人。

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.

Covering more than 220 hectares, GUT has four campus, and 19 colleges with 75 undergraduate programs, 21 Master authorizations in the first-level discipline, 3 Post-doctoralcenters, as well as 3 Ph.D. authorizations in the first-level discipline. Currently there are more than 40,000 full-time students in GUT. 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.

GUT aims to cultivate the practice-oriented advanced professional talents, holding the key majors with distinctive features, such as Geology, Environment, Material, Civil Engineering, Surveying and Mapping, Tourism and Management.Some majors have obtained the top list in the national ranking, which are Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Tourism Management，as well as Business Administration.

Focusing on quality-oriented education, GUT also has paid attention to expand the scale of education and develop research programmes. The university has won the highest award of Guangxi scientific research achievement of higher education- the National Scientific Progress Prize. For more than half a century, the university has brought up nearly 100,000 professional and technicaltalents. The rate of graduates employment has reached to 90% every year. Our graduates are welcomed by enterprises and institutions due to their solid professional basic knowledge and hands-on abilities.

For the purposes of promoting the international exchanges and cooperation, GUT has insisted on an opening-uppolicy, actively built an international cooperation system which is all-round, multi-level and in various forms. So far the university has established cooperative relationswith over 100 colleges from 30 countries, including the United States, UK, Australia, Japan, Russia, Malaysia 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 6600 students have had courses at GUT from more than 60 countries.