Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU), the city’s youngest university, unveiled its new campus located in Pingshan District on its first open day yesterday. The event attracted more than 3,000 visitors Sunday.
The new campus will cover a total of 2.53 million square meters when finished, said Professor Ruan Shuangchen, president of SZTU. The university opened part of its new campus, including a teaching building and the dormitory area, to visitor tours yesterday.
The teaching building and two dormitory buildings will be finished and put into use in July this year. When completed, all of the teaching buildings around campus will have more than 200 classrooms of various sizes capable of serving 19,000 students.
Faculty members of the university set up information stalls at which visitors could inquire about available programs on the open day. Labs and student activity centers were also opened for all visitors.
“We introduced the School of Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing to visitors and showed them how the school is learning from quality teaching experiences from our German counterparts and incorporating the experiences into our courses,” said Wang Hongzhi, deputy director of the faculty.
Current student Chen Xintao helped out at the School of Creative Design information stall. He said all teachers and students from their faculty have been making efforts to prepare for the Open Day and aimed to impress the visitors yesterday.
The university announced earlier this month that this September, it will enroll 650 undergraduate students from Guangdong Province alone and altogether 150 candidates from Liaoning, Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong and Shanxi provinces.
This year marks the first time the university has enrolled students independently. The university’s enrollment in previous years was conducted by Shenzhen University because SZTU had not yet been authorized by the Ministry of Education to enroll students independently.
As the city’s third local university behind Shenzhen University and Southern University of Science and Technology, SZTU aims to build itself into an international high-level university of applied sciences and technologies. In seeking this, it has been establishing partnerships with universities of applied sciences in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands since its genesis.
According to Professor Ruan, currently the university has established extensive and in-depth partnerships with its German counterparts in cities like Munchen, Nurnberg, Augsburg, Wurzburg and Regensburg.