Taiyuan University of Technology

Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT) is a provincial public university in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, oriented towards science and engineering. It is affiliated with Shanxi Province, funded by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government, and included in Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.太原理工大学（简称太理，TYUT）是中国山西省太原市的一所以工科为主的省属公立大学。学校隶属山西省，由山西省人民政府举办，是国家“211工程”和“双一流”建设高校。

Its history reaches back to the Western Learning Special Class opened in 1902 within Shanxi Grand Academy, one of the three institutions then permitted the title of university. Its engineering faculty became an independent institute in 1953, and the present university took shape in the 1997 merger with Shanxi Mining Institute.学校历史可上溯至 1902 年山西大学堂开设的西学专斋，当时全国仅有三所学堂获准称大学。其工科于 1953 年独立建院，今日的太原理工大学则形成于 1997 年与山西矿业学院的合并。

The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 401-500 band, U.S. News ranks it 1,338th for 2026-2027, and neither the 2027 Times Higher Education nor the 2027 QS world ranking includes it.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位列 401-500 区间，美国新闻与世界报道 2026-2027 年全球排名将其列为第 1338 位，而 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名和 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名均未收录该校。

History

• On 26 March 1901 Timothy Richard, a Baptist missionary, met senior associates of Li Hongzhang in Beijing and proposed a Sino-Western university hall in Shanxi. Li expressed approval, and Richard went on to recruit teachers and prepare textbooks.1901 年 3 月 26 日，英国浸礼会传教士李提摩太在北京会见李鸿章手下的要员，提议在山西设立中西大学堂。李鸿章当即表示赞同，李提摩太随后聘请教习并筹备教材。
• Richard reached Taiyuan in April 1902 and, given the circumstances, proposed merging his project with the planned Shanxi Grand Academy. Governor Cen Chunxuan sent Shen Dunhe of the foreign affairs bureau to negotiate the terms.1902 年 4 月，李提摩太抵达太原，鉴于当时情形，建议将自己的办学计划与拟设的山西大学堂合并办理。山西巡抚岑春煊派洋务局督办沈敦和与他就条款进行协商。
• The agreement made the Sino-Western hall the Western Learning Special Class, which taught Western subjects under Richard for ten years before passing to Chinese management, while a Chinese Learning Special Class taught Chinese learning under Chinese direction. Together the two formed Shanxi Grand Academy.协议将中西大学堂改为西学专斋，由李提摩太主持十年，专授西学，期满后交归中方管理，另设中学专斋，由华人负责教授中国学问。两斋并立，统称山西大学堂。
• In 1903 the Qing government's new school regulations reserved the name university for institutions with three faculties, and only the Imperial University of Peking, Peiyang University and Shanxi Grand Academy qualified. The other provincial academies became higher schools.1903 年，清政府颁布的新学堂章程规定须设三科方能称大学，全国仅京师大学堂、北洋大学堂和山西大学堂符合条件，其余各省学堂一律改称高等学堂。
• On 10 July 1912 the new republic's first central education conference decided to rename every academy a school. Shanxi Grand Academy became Shanxi University School and the names of the two special classes disappeared.1912 年 7 月 10 日，民国政府第一次中央教育会议决定将学堂一律改称学校。山西大学堂遂更名为山西大学校，中西两斋的名称同时取消。
• A civil engineering department was established in 1913 on the foundation of the Western Learning Special Class, and the Ministry of Education confirmed the school as public and predominantly engineering.1913 年，学校在西学专斋的基础上设立土木工程学门，并经教育部认可，被确定为公立且以工科为主。
• The Shanxi Provincial Industrial School merged into it in 1914. In May 1918 the institution was taken into the national system, ranked after the Imperial University of Peking and Peiyang University and described as the third national university.1914 年，山西省工业专门学校并入。1918 年 5 月，学校被划入国立序列，地位次于京师大学堂和北洋大学，被称为国立第三大学。
• It was renamed National Shanxi University in 1931, stopped admitting students in 1937 and reopened in 1939.1931 年，学校更名为国立山西大学，1937 年停止招生，1939 年复校。
• After 1949 the science college of China University and, in 1951, the mechanical and textile departments of Mingxian College were merged into it.1949 年，中国大学理学院并入，1951 年铭贤学院的机械系和纺织系又并入该校。
• The national reorganisation of 1953 detached the engineering faculty as Taiyuan Institute of Technology, a separate institution from which the present university descends.1953 年全国院系调整中，工科部分独立为太原工学院，现今的太原理工大学即由这所独立院校发展而来。
• Its chemical engineering faculty became the Shanxi Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1958 and rejoined in 1962, while a water conservancy lineage that began with the Taiyuan Water Conservancy School in 1956 passed through a special college and an institute before also merging in 1962.其化工系于 1958 年改建为山西化工学院，1962 年并入太原工学院，另一条水利脉络始于 1956 年创建的太原水利学校，历经专科学校与山西省水利学院，也于 1962 年并入。
• The Shanxi Coal Chemical Engineering University created in 1978 was folded into the institute in 1981, and in 1984 the institute was renamed Taiyuan University of Technology.1978 年创建的山西煤炭化学工业大学于 1981 年并入太原工学院，1984 年太原工学院更名为太原工业大学。
• Shanxi Mining Institute was founded in 1958 after the Ministry of Coal Industry's planning meeting in Beijing that May. Its official seal was issued on 8 September 1958, and it absorbed the Datong Mining Institute in 1959, the Datong Coal College in 1960 and the Shanxi Coal Cadre School in 1961.山西矿业学院创建于 1958 年，其缘起是当年 5 月煤炭部在北京召开的煤炭高等院校筹建工作会议。学院公章于 1958 年 9 月 8 日颁发，此后大同矿业学院于 1959 年、大同煤炭专科学校于 1960 年、山西煤炭干部管理学校于 1961 年相继并入。
• A textile and light industry lineage ran in parallel. The Shanxi Textile School and the Shanxi Light Industry School were created in 1958, merged and moved to Yuci in 1960, became the Shanxi Light Industry Institute in 1966, was abolished in 1970, restored in 1972 and renamed the Shanxi Textile Industrial School in 1979.另一条纺织与轻工脉络并行发展。山西省纺织学校和山西省轻工业学校创建于 1958 年，1960 年合并并迁往榆次，1966 年改为山西省轻工业学院，1970 年撤销，1972 年复校，1979 年更名为山西省纺织工业学校。
• In 1997 Taiyuan University of Technology and Shanxi Mining Institute merged to form today's Taiyuan University of Technology, and in the same year the university entered Project 211.1997 年，太原工业大学与山西矿业学院合并组建太原理工大学，同年学校进入国家“211工程”重点建设行列。
• The Shanxi Textile Industrial School joined in 2000 and became the College of Light Textile Engineering and Art, which later divided into the College of Light Textile Engineering and the College of Art.2000 年，山西省纺织工业学校并入，组建为轻纺工程与美术学院，其后分设为轻纺工程学院和艺术学院。
• In March 2018 the Shanxi Sports Bureau, the university, Youyu County and Yulong Horse Industry jointly established the equestrian college, and in August 2018 the university signed an agreement with Tsinghua University to deepen cooperation.2018 年 3 月，山西省体育局、太原理工大学、右玉县和玉龙马业四方合作共建太原理工大学马术学院，同年 8 月，学校与清华大学签署深化合作协议。
• On 17 January 2021 the university signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Lüliang municipal government and unveiled the TYUT Lüliang Industrial Technology Research Institute.2021 年 1 月 17 日，学校与吕梁市人民政府签署校市战略合作协议，太原理工大学吕梁产业技术研究院同日揭牌。
• On 25 January 2021 the Ministry of Education approved the separation of Modern Science and Technology College, an independent college run by the university, as Shanxi Institute of Technology, a public institution under the Shanxi provincial government.2021 年 1 月 25 日，教育部批准学校管理的独立学院太原理工大学现代科技学院脱离该校，转设为公办普通高等学校山西工学院，由山西省人民政府领导管理。
• The university dates its foundation to 1902 and marked its 120th anniversary in 2022, a date that also prompted the adoption of a new school song.学校以 1902 年为建校之年，并于 2022 年迎来 120 周年校庆，新校歌也在这一时期启用。

Academics

• As of April 2024 the university has 25 professional colleges and one Sino-foreign cooperative college, offering 84 undergraduate majors in engineering, science, economics, management, humanities, law and art.截至 2024 年 4 月，学校设有 25 个专业学院和 1 个中外合作办学学院，开办 84 个本科专业，覆盖工、理、经、管、文、法、艺等门类。
• Its graduate system comprises 15 postdoctoral stations, 15 first-level doctoral programmes, 34 first-level master's programmes and 14 professional master's degree categories.研究生教育方面，学校拥有 15 个博士后流动站、15 个一级学科博士点、34 个一级学科硕士点和 14 个专业学位硕士点。
• It enrols 44,422 full-time students, among them 374 international students, and employs 3,906 staff, according to figures of February 2024.学校有全日制学生 44422 名，其中国际学生 374 名，教职工 3906 名，数据截至 2024 年 2 月。
• The faculty includes one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, three of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, seven Changjiang professors, eight recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, seven Excellent Young Scholars and sixteen national Hundred-Thousand Talent Programme selections.教师队伍中有中国科学院院士 1 名、中国工程院院士 3 名、长江学者特聘与讲座教授 7 名、国家杰出青年科学基金获得者 8 名、国家优秀青年科学基金获得者 7 名，以及新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选 16 名。
• Teaching is organised in colleges of mechanical and vehicle engineering, materials science and engineering, electrical and power engineering, aerospace, computer science and technology, software, architecture and civil engineering, water conservancy, chemical engineering, mining, light textile engineering, art, environmental science, mathematics, physics and optoelectronics, mechanics, foreign languages, law and politics, economics and management, chemistry, ecology and physical education.教学单位包括机械与运载工程学院、材料科学与工程学院、电气与动力工程学院、航空航天学院、计算机科学与技术学院、软件学院、建筑与土木工程学院、水利科学与工程学院、化学化工学院、矿业工程学院、轻纺工程学院、艺术学院、环境科学与工程学院、数学学院、物理与光电工程学院、力学学院、外国语学院、政法学院、经济管理学院、化学学院、物理学院、生态学学院和体育学院。
• Its principal research base is the State Key Laboratory of Coal Science and Technology, a provincial-ministerial co-constructed laboratory in cultivation, supported by a coal science and technology laboratory jointly run with the Ministry of Education and Shanxi Province.学校主要的科研基地是煤科学与技术省部共建国家重点实验室培育基地，并有与教育部和山西省共建的煤科学与技术重点实验室作为支撑。
• Ministry of Education key laboratories cover new sensors and intelligent control, interface science and engineering of new materials, and in-situ modified mining, the last shared with the province.教育部重点实验室包括新型传感器与智能控制、新材料界面科学与工程和原位改性采矿，其中后者为省部共建。
• Applied work is channelled through the Ministry of Education engineering research centre for coal conversion technology, a national-local joint engineering research centre for semiconductor lighting and a national university science park.应用研究通过教育部煤转化技术工程研究中心、半导体照明国家地方联合工程研究中心和国家大学科技园等平台开展。
• Seven Shanxi key laboratories work on coal science and technology, material interfaces, material strength and structural impact, safe and efficient mining of mineral resources, coal mine equipment and safety control, new sensors and intelligent control, and intelligent fully mechanised mining equipment.山西省重点实验室有七个，分别研究煤科学与技术、材料界面、材料强度与结构冲击、矿产资源安全高效开采、煤矿装备及安全控制、新型传感器与智能控制，以及煤矿综采装备及智能化。
• The university publishes the Journal of Taiyuan University of Technology, Coal Conversion, the Journal of Systematic Dialectics, the Journal of Social Sciences and Shanxi Coal.学校出版的刊物包括《太原理工大学学报》《煤炭转化》《系统辩证学学报》《社会科学学报》和《山西煤炭》。
• It has twice hosted a national 973 research project as the lead scientific unit, has taken part in the 863 high-technology programme and reports 434 awards conferred by ministries and the province.学校曾两次作为第一科学家单位承担国家 973 计划项目，参与国家 863 高技术计划，并获省部级奖励 434 项。
• An earlier university profile listed three national key disciplines, 13 provincial key disciplines and 12 provincially supported disciplines.学校早年的简介列出国家重点学科 3 个、省级重点学科 13 个和省级重点扶持学科 12 个。
• The 25 colleges include dedicated schools of aerospace, software and big data, and ecology, reflecting an expansion beyond the university's coal and mechanical origins.25 个学院中设有航空航天、软件与大数据、生态学等专门学院，显示学校已从煤炭与机械的传统领域向外拓展。
• A Confucius Institute with Kabul University was agreed in early 2008, the first in Afghanistan. Chinese staff withdrew late in 2011 for security reasons and teaching resumed in early 2013.2008 年初，学校与喀布尔大学签署共建孔子学院协议，这是阿富汗第一所孔子学院。中方人员于 2011 年末因安全原因撤离，2013 年初复课。
• The university maintains partnerships with more than 30 universities in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, India and Norway, and cooperates with institutions in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.学校与美国、日本、英国、澳大利亚、加拿大、俄罗斯、德国、法国、印度和挪威等国的 30 多所大学建立了合作关系，并与台湾、香港和内地院校开展教研合作。
• Its international education college teaches Chinese language and degree courses to overseas students, and the equestrian college created in 2018 adds equine science and riding to the curriculum.国际教育交流学院面向留学生教授汉语和学位课程，2018 年创办的马术学院则为课程增添了马科学与骑术内容。
• An earlier profile recorded 2,178 full-time teachers, 244 doctoral supervisors and 1,254 teachers with senior professional titles among 3,549 teaching and administrative staff.学校早年的资料记载，在 3549 名教职工中有专任教师 2178 名、博士生导师 244 名、具有高级专业技术职称的教师 1254 名。
• Research strengths cluster around coal chemistry and conversion, mining and safety engineering, materials processing and optoelectronic sensing, fields that match the energy and manufacturing base of Shanxi.学校的研究优势集中于煤化学与煤转化、采矿与安全工程、材料加工和光电传感等领域，与山西的能源和制造业基础相契合。

Campus

• The university occupies four campuses, Mingxiang, Yingxi, Huyu and Berlin, with a total area of 2.22 million square metres and 1.67 million square metres of buildings as of April 2024.学校有明向、迎西、虎峪、柏林四个校区，截至 2024 年 4 月，占地面积 222 万平方米，校舍总建筑面积 167 万平方米。
• Yingxi campus at 79 Yingze West Street and Huyu campus at 18 Xinkuangyuan Road lie in Wanbailin District, Taiyuan, Mingxiang campus at 209 Daxue Street stands in Yuci District, Jinzhong, and the Berlin campus at 53 Xikuang Street is also in Wanbailin.迎西校区位于太原市万柏林区迎泽西大街 79 号，虎峪校区位于同区新矿院路 18 号，明向校区位于晋中市榆次区大学街 209 号，柏林校区位于万柏林区西矿街 53 号。
• Mingxiang takes its name from a gatehouse preserved in the plans, was named in February 2012 and had its ground broken on 28 September 2011.明向校区的名称源于规划中保留的明向门楼，2012 年 2 月定名，校区于 2011 年 9 月 28 日破土动工。
• Jinqiang Gate, the south and main gate of Yingxi campus, was built with a donation in 1997 by the alumnus Chen Jinqiang and marks the merger of Taiyuan University of Technology and Shanxi Mining Institute. It combines four column bases, half-moon twin columns and a space frame.进强门是迎西校区南门和正门，由校友陈进强于 1997 年捐资兴建，是太原工业大学与山西矿业学院合并的见证。校门由四个柱础、半月形双柱和网架结构组成。
• In the inscription composed by the then president Xie Kechang, the four bases stand for the solidity of the institution, the twin columns for science and democracy and the space frame for the pursuit of perfection.时任校长谢克昌院士撰写的碑文说明，四个柱础象征学校根基坚实，半月形双柱象征科学与民主精神，网架结构寄托对完美的追求。
• In the summer of 2008 the Taiyuan municipal government sought to remove the gate to widen Yingze West Street, but the plan was not carried out.2008 年夏，太原市政府曾以迎泽西大街道路拓宽改造为由试图拆除进强门，但未能实施。
• A motto stone completed in 2010 stands inside the south gate in front of the main office building facing Yingze West Street. Its face carries the four-character motto Qiushi Chuangxin, or seek truth and innovate, and its reverse the full text of Liang Shanji's account of the founding of the Western Learning Special Class.校训石于 2010 年建成，位于迎西校区南校门内、主办公楼前，面向迎泽西大街。正面刻有校训“求实创新”，背面为梁善济所撰《山西大学堂设立西学专斋始末记》全文。
• The library system, among the largest in Shanxi's universities, includes the Yingxi library opened on 4 September 1989, the Huyu library completed in June 1986 and rated a class A undergraduate library in 1992, and the Mingxiang library opened on 10 October 2019, the tallest building in the Shanxi higher education park.太原理工大学图书馆是山西省高校中规模最大的图书馆之一，由迎西校区图书馆、虎峪校区图书馆和明向校区图书馆等组成。迎西馆于 1989 年 9 月 4 日投入使用，虎峪馆建于 1986 年 6 月并于 1992 年被评为本科院校甲级馆，明向馆于 2019 年 10 月 10 日开馆，是山西省高校教育园区的最高建筑。
• The Berlin campus houses the College of Continuing Education, while the Mingxiang library and the plum blossom classrooms are open to students from nearby universities preparing for examinations.柏林校区设有继续教育学院，明向校区图书馆和梅花教室向周边高校学生开放。

Reputation

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 401-500 band.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将学校列入 401-500 区间。
• U.S. News ranks it 1,338th in its 2026-2027 global listing.美国新闻与世界报道 2026-2027 年全球排名将学校列为第 1338 位。
• It is not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It is not included in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• Membership of Project 211, granted on its formation in 1997, and inclusion in the Double First-Class Construction give it national priority status.学校于 1997 年组建当年进入国家“211工程”，并列入“双一流”建设，具有国家重点建设高校的地位。
• Its standing in 1918 as the third national university after the Imperial University of Peking and Peiyang University remains a point of historical pride.1918 年位列国立第三大学、仅次于京师大学堂和北洋大学的历史，至今仍是学校引以为荣的一段渊源。
• In 2004 the Ministry of Education named it an Excellent University for Undergraduate Education.2004 年，教育部在本科教学工作水平评估中将学校评为优秀。
• Its coal science and technology laboratory and repeated leadership of national 973 projects underpin a reputation in energy, mining and materials research.煤科学与技术重点实验室以及多次牵头国家 973 项目，支撑了学校在能源、采矿和材料研究方面的声誉。
• The university reports 434 awards from ministries and the province and more than 100,000 graduates since its foundation.学校称已获省部级奖励 434 项，建校以来培养毕业生十万余人。

Student life

• Some 44,422 full-time students, including 374 from abroad, study on the four campuses.四个校区共有全日制学生 44422 名，其中国际学生 374 名。
• The men's basketball team, founded in 1987, has long dominated the sport in Shanxi. From its first CUBA season in 1998 to the end of 2013 it was the only university team to reach the national top eight fifteen times in succession, won 13 Northwest regional titles and two national championships.男子篮球队始建于 1987 年，长期保持山西高校篮坛的领先地位。从 1998 年参加中国大学生篮球联赛到 2013 年末，球队是全国高校中唯一连续 15 次闯入八强的队伍，13 次获得西北赛区冠军，两次夺得全国总冠军。
• The men's football team was formed in 1998 and has played in every provincial and national university tournament. It won the North zone of the Li-Ning Chinese University Football League in 2005-2006 and 2009-2010 and finished as national runner-up in both seasons, with further North and national runner-up placings in 2011.男子足球队组建于 1998 年，参加了历届全省和全国高校足球赛事。球队在 2005-2006 赛季和 2009-2010 赛季获得李宁中国大学生足球联赛北区冠军，并两度获得全国总决赛亚军，2011 年又获北区亚军和总决赛亚军。
• The women's basketball team, also founded in 1987, reached the regional final six times, won two Northwest titles and finished runner-up in the sixth CUBA season before being disbanded at the end of 2012.女子篮球队同样始建于 1987 年，曾六次进入赛区决赛，两次获得西北赛区冠军，并在第六届联赛中获得亚军，球队于 2012 年底解散。
• The equestrian college established in 2018 with the Shanxi Sports Bureau, Youyu County and Yulong Horse Industry offers riding instruction and equine studies to students.2018 年由山西省体育局、右玉县和玉龙马业参与共建的马术学院，为学生提供骑术训练和马科学课程。
• The earlier school song, whose title translates as The Sacred Fire Was Lit a Hundred Years Ago, was composed by Jiang Yanli to words by Zhu Xianqi, then the university's party secretary.早年的校歌名为《圣火在百年前点燃》，由蒋言礼作曲，时任校党委书记朱先奇作词。
• After the 120th anniversary in 2022 the university adopted a new school song composed by Wang Zhe, with words by Zhu Xianqi, Guan Er and Chen Daobin.2022 年 120 周年校庆后，学校启用新校歌，由王喆作曲，朱先奇、关尔、陈道斌作词。
• The libraries are open to readers from outside the university, and students from neighbouring institutions, especially Shanxi Medical University, use them as study space.学校图书馆向社会读者开放，周边院校学生尤其山西医科大学的学生常来此自习。
• The student body includes more than 7,700 master's and doctoral students in an earlier count, taught within the 15 doctoral and 34 master's programmes.学校有硕士和博士研究生七千七百余名（早年的统计），分布在 15 个博士点和 34 个硕士点中。

Notable people

• Timothy Richard, the Baptist missionary who proposed the Sino-Western university hall, headed the Western Learning Special Class for its first ten years.李提摩太是提议设立中西大学堂的浸礼会传教士，并主持西学专斋十年。
• Li Hongzhang, the senior Qing official, approved the 1901 proposal put to his associates in Beijing.李鸿章是清朝重臣，对 1901 年向其手下提出的办学建议表示赞同。
• Cen Chunxuan, governor of Shanxi, authorised the negotiation that merged the project into Shanxi Grand Academy.岑春煊时任山西巡抚，批准了将中西大学堂并入山西大学堂的协商。
• Shen Dunhe, head of the Shanxi foreign affairs bureau, negotiated the terms with Richard.沈敦和时任山西洋务局督办，与李提摩太商定了合并条款。
• Xie Kechang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former president, composed the inscription on Jinqiang Gate.谢克昌是中国工程院院士、学校原校长，撰写了进强门碑文。
• Chen Jinqiang, an alumnus, funded the construction of Jinqiang Gate in 1997.陈进强是学校校友，1997 年捐资修建进强门。
• Liang Shanji wrote the account of the founding of the Western Learning Special Class that is inscribed on the reverse of the motto stone.梁善济撰写了《山西大学堂设立西学专斋始末记》，其全文刻于校训石背面。
• Dou Yinke, a young teacher, was selected for China's 21st Antarctic expedition.窦银科是学校青年教师，曾入选中国第 21 次南极考察队。
• Jiang Yanli composed the earlier school song, and Wang Zhe composed the song adopted in 2022.蒋言礼为早年校歌作曲，王喆为 2022 年启用的校歌作曲。
• Zhu Xianqi, a former party secretary, wrote the words of both school songs, the later one with Guan Er and Chen Daobin.朱先奇曾任学校党委书记，为两首校歌作词，后一首与关尔、陈道斌合作。