Focusing on Engineering, Hubei University of Technology is a comprehensive university, covering eight disciplines including Engineering, Liberal Arts, Science, Arts, Economics, Management, Law, and Education. Hubei University of Technology was originally established in 1952.
In 1984, Hubei Institute of Light Industry merged with Hubei Academy of Agricultural Machinery to form Hubei Polytechnic University, and was renamed as Hubei University of Technology (HBUT) in 2004.
HBUT is a key development university of Hubei Province and has been assessed as “a high level, standard-setting, and backbone university of the province’s higher education system” by the Party Committee and the Provincial Government of Hubei Province.
In 1986, HBUT earned the qualification to confer Master’s degrees and recommend outstanding undergraduates to be exempt from the postgraduate entrance exam. It won the title “the university with an excellent graduate employment rate” in 2010.
In 2014, it attained Tier 1 university status. In 2012 and 2016, it successively entered membership of the National Basic Ability Construction Project of Western and Central China Higher Educational Institutions. HBUT won the title “Higher Educational Institution of Reform on Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship” as the first group of universities national wide in 2016. It has been a doctoral degree conferring university since 2017.
In 2017, HBUT became the first provincial university in Hubei Province to build a 111 Center for discipline innovation and talent introduction, approved by State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. In 2018, School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment was awarded as the first provincial International Development Demonstration School in Hubei province. In 2019, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of the “HBUT Detroit Green Technology Institute”, which is a Sino-US joint engineering institute with non-independent legal entities run by our university and the University of Detroit Mercy in a “4 + 0″dual degree
model.
HBUT has established 17 schools, Hubei Provincial Mechanical and Electrical Research and Design Institute
Co., Ltd., Hubei Agricultural Machinery Engineering Research and Design Institute, and Hubei Agricultural Machinery Appraisal
Station, all of which are provincial scientific research institutes, and 1 affiliated college. HBUT enrolls students from a total number of 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities throughout China, and has an enrollment of more than 20,000 full-time students of all types, including over 6,300 postgraduates.