Hebei University of Architecture

Hebei University of Architecture is one of an academic institution in Hebei Province，which is authorized by the State Council to grant Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Founded in 1950, the school, based on civil engineering and architecture, is a characteristic institution of more than 60 years, in which disciplines like engineering, management, science and arts have been developing rapidly. Located in the city of Zhangjiakou, the university has 3 campuses: Chaoyang, Jianguo and Linyuan, covering an area of 1,176 acres which include 311,000-square meters building area. The number of staff is 647, among whom 472 are teaching staff. According to the latest statistics, among the teaching staff, 236 are professors and associate professors, 382 own master’s or doctor’s degree. The academician Wang Mengshu from the Chinese Academy of Engineering was employed as honorary president. The teaching staff are reasonably structured and professionally qualified. There are 10,342 full-time undergraduate and higher vocational students, 9,259 on-the-job students. The university has 10 secondary schools: School of Architecture and Art, School of Civil Engineering, School of Energy and Environment Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Economics and Management, School of Information Engineering, School of Science, School of Foreign Languages and School of Adult education, 3 teaching institutions: Graduate Faculty, Social Science department and Sports Department. It has Modern Educational Technology Center, Architecture Design Institute, 11 research institutions, 53 teaching and research sections，27 laboratories and test centers，2 school factories，72 practice bases and 7 scientific research bases. The library has 712,000 books and 284,400 e-books, 2094 periodicals home and abroad. There are 27 majors for bachelor’s degree, 8 majors for higher vocational education, 2 national specialty construction bases, 2 provincial key disciplines, 3 provincial developing key disciplines, 1 provincial applied technology research and development centre，5 national featured majors, 3 provincial educational innovation bases，1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center and 1 provincial practical education base in the university. The university received the Excellence Reward in Undergraduate Teaching Assessment performed the Ministry of Education in 2008. Majors of civil engineering, building environment and equipment engineering and engineering management have passed professional education assessment performed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural since 2009.The University has cultivated more than 60,000 graduates since it was founded. It has provided many outstanding talents for the country for architecture, design, machinery, electricity and transportation industry etc., so it is called “the Huangpu Military Academy” in Hebei Province which cultivates civil construction personnel. For years, the school has been optimizing personnel cultivating program, adjusting discipline structure, laying reasonably curriculum and contents of teaching, deepening education and teaching reform, striving to improve education and teaching quality and cultivating highly-competent people with innovative spirit and practical capability. The graduate employment rate has ranked top for years in Hebei province. At present, guided by the scientific outlook on development, we are freeing our mind, deepening the reform, blazing newtrails in a pioneering spirit to build a featured university of architecture in service of architectural industry home and abroad.