SUT with an enrollment of 33130, including 2306 postgraduates, 16182 undergraduates,10671 on-the-job students and 3923 students of the Engineering School of SUT (the independent college). Among its 2316 working staff,1194 are professional teachers of who are 3 academicians,37 doctor supervisor, 25 excellent young teachers of whose subject and 518 professors and vice professors. The SUT has a very strong team of teaching staff, 80% of which are holders master degrees or doctoral degrees, and 40% of which have received or are studying for doctoral degrees. There are a lot of outstanding people among the teaching staff, such as national model teachers and labour models, the achiever of the National Technology Advance Award，Director of National professional societies,national and provincial excellent science experts. Being enlisted in the National and Provincial Talent Storage Project of “one hundred, one thousand and ten thousand” ,the member of the Teaching Supervisory Committee of Higher University in Ministry of Education,many excellent talents from “Famous Teacher, Excellent Talents and Subject Top Personnel at Provincial and Ministerial levels. SUT also invites a group of international famous experts and scholar as part-time professors. At present the SUT campus is composed of building space of 900,000 square meters, and the residential buildings covers 450,000 square meters. With a great attachment to the development of SUT, it has solicited a piece of land of about to build a new campus and it will be applied in 2008.
SUT has established stable and long-term collaborative relations with more than 30 foreign institutions such as Japan, German, the UK, Holland, Russia, Australia and Korea Republic. It began to enroll foreign students, since 1985, and started international cooperation of teaching with University of Luton in the U.K. and Griffith University of Australia since 1999; it has the enrollment of more than 700 students and accumulates amount of teaching experience.
There have been more than 110,000 students with the senior technology of engineering and the administration skill graduating from SUT within the 50 years since the founding of the university. It has made essential contribution to the Construction of the Socialist Modernization.
SUT persists in the characteristics of programs and subjects of heading for the relative programs of Apparatus Manufacturing, merging the subjects of the Electric Monitoring, material, mechanism and apparatus and mutual support of the program of engineering, science, economy, management, liberal arts and laws. As to the arrangement of teaching, it is major in undergraduate education, actively develops postgraduate education stably expands lifelong education and advanced vocational technology education and tries to grow international cooperation education. The main purpose is to cultivate applied talented person with senior engineering technology and management skills, at the same time it aims to train the skilled people of researching compound and abilities. Through years of teaching practice, it forms the features of cultivating the talented people of modest style, generous foundation, strong ability of application of engineer and adjustment of job position. SUT is built mainly to serve local zone economy construction, and also to influence national apparatus manufacturing and other professional areas.
In the intense trend of developing high education all over our nation.SUT is developing according to its doctrine of self-support sincerely practicing,carrying forward the SUT's spirit of “waging a hard struggle and being self-reliance”,being on the improvement day by day, being pioneering and enterprising, striving to develop itself into a high level multi-subject teaching and researching university which gains a footing in Liaoning and has the features of serving all the nation, engineering oriented, obvious features and open style, to make the multi-strength of teaching be in the forefront of all the local universities of science and engineering, and to be the significant base of cultivating talented people and innovating science and technology.
