Weifang University

Weifang University is a provincial full-time comprehensive undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of education. The school is located in Weifang City, Shandong Province, which is the world famous kite city, the national civilized city and the city of China's living environment award.

The school now covers an area of 2100 mu (1.4 million square meters), building area of 842800 square meters, fixed assets of 1.886 billion yuan, teaching and scientific research equipment of 235 million yuan. The university has built a modern library with multiple functions such as literature service, information consultation and digital resource retrieval, with a collection of 2.71 million paper books and 25 TB e-books. Weifang culture hall of fame is built to reflect the long history and culture of Weifang. It publishes the Party Committee organ newspaper "Weifang University Newspaper" and academic journal "Journal of Weifang University". It has a large sports ground of high standard and a modern multi-functional gymnasium with an area of 40000 square meters. There are 60 research institutes including Beihai Culture Research Institute, Shandong Peninsula Economic and Social Development Research Institute, Weifang Finance Research Institute, cultural museum research institute, new electromagnetic materials research institute, comparative literature and World Literature Research Institute, and 285 off campus teaching practice bases integrating teaching, scientific research and social services. The school has a leading level campus network of similar domestic colleges and universities. It is the Weifang network center of China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and the executive director unit of the National Council of education informatization.

At present, the university has 22 teaching units and 68 undergraduate majors, involving 10 disciplines of science, engineering, literature, economics, management, agriculture, law, history, education and art. At present, there are 2 provincial key disciplines, 8 provincial scientific research and innovation platforms, 3 national characteristic specialties and comprehensive reform pilot specialties of the Ministry of education, 30 provincial characteristic specialties, provincial high-level application-oriented project construction specialty, provincial application-oriented talent training and development support plan specialty, provincial excellent engineer training specialty, provincial Adult Education brand specialty, etc; There are 66 provincial excellent courses, provincial bilingual teaching demonstration courses, provincial adult education characteristic courses, 5 provincial teaching teams, 3 National College Students' off campus practice education base, provincial experimental teaching demonstration center and provincial talent training mode innovation experimental zone; The Ministry of Education launched the "national training plan" special education backbone teacher training project, and undertook six pilot projects in the national education system reform pilot zone.

The school has 2021 teaching staff, including 1382 full-time teachers. Among the staff, 245 have doctorates, 1043 have master's degrees, 649 have senior titles, and 82 have doctoral and master's supervisors. There are more than 50 people, including top-notch young talents under the national special support program for high-level talents, experts enjoying special subsidies from the government of the State Council, members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of education, national excellent teachers, leading talents of Taishan industry, and young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from Shandong Province. More than 230 well-known experts and scholars, such as Liu Yixun, Qian Yitai, Xu Shaoxie, Shu Huairui, Mai Kangsen, Fu Tingdong, Yao Jianquan, pan Jianwei, Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, are appointed as distinguished (Part-time) professors or heads of professional committees.

The school adheres to the motto of "morality, erudition, truth-seeking and innovation", carries forward the spirit of "work together, work hard and pursue excellence", takes moral cultivation as the fundamental task, and takes promoting the healthy growth of students as the starting point and foothold of all work of the school, continuously deepens the reform of education and teaching, and comprehensively implements quality education. The university enrolls students from 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China, with more than 25700 full-time students and students from more than 10 countries. In recent years, students have won more than 2710 awards in the national and provincial "Challenge Cup" College Students' extracurricular academic and technological works competition, mathematical modeling competition, electronic design competition and other activities. Students have been granted 124 patents. The online rate of graduate entrance examination is more than 30%, and the employment rate of graduates at the end of the year remains above 93.34%.

The school adheres to serving the local economic and social development as its own responsibility, actively connects with the "blue and yellow" national development strategy, actively promotes the combination of production, teaching and research, deeply carries out the action of serving Weifang, and closely carries out scientific research and tackling key problems around the local pillar industries such as mechanical equipment, electronic information, biomedicine, marine chemical industry, facility agriculture, cultural tourism, so as to provide scientific and technological services for the local economic and social development It has made a positive contribution to the development of China. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 80 national projects and 730 provincial and ministerial projects, obtained 111 authorized patents, published more than 770 books and edited textbooks, and published more than 14030 papers in academic journals at home and abroad, including 3746 core journals and 1872 indexed by SCI and EI.

The University adheres to open education, widely uses and introduces high-quality educational resources, actively carries out international and domestic exchanges and cooperation, establishes friendly exchanges and cooperation relations with more than 60 universities in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Australia and other countries and regions, and cooperates with Shandong University of science and technology, Qingdao University, Qufu Normal University and other universities.

In recent years, the university has made remarkable achievements in various undertakings. Through the undergraduate teaching level evaluation and audit evaluation of the Ministry of education, the university has been identified as the first batch of graduate joint training bases in Shandong Province, the first batch of pilot construction of Shandong teacher education base in the national education reform experimental Zone, the national special education teacher training base, and the application-oriented talent training characteristic base in Shandong Province The construction unit of the famous school has won the title of "national advanced collective of language and writing work", "national advanced unit of art education", "the first national demonstration unit of saving public institutions", "civilized unit of Shandong Province", "excellent grass-roots party organization of Shandong Province", "the first batch of demonstration schools of running schools according to law", "the first batch of pilot units of educational informatization in Shandong Province" and "moral education work in Shandong Province" The titles of "excellent university", "advanced collective of teachers' morality construction in Shandong Province" and "safe campus in Shandong Province" have been repeatedly reported by CCTV, people's daily, Guangming Daily, China Education Daily, science and technology daily, people's daily, guangming.com, dazhong.com and the website of Shandong Provincial Department of education.

Note: data statistics as of April 2017

Weifang University

Nature of institutions: public

Education level: General Undergraduate

Location: Shandong

Tel: 0536-8785173 8785671 (fax)

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Admission website: http://www.wfu.edu.cn

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