武汉理工大学是首批列入国家“211工程”重点建设的教育部直属全国重点大学。60多年来，学校共培养了40余万名高级专门人才，是教育部直属高校中为建材、交通、汽车三大行业培养人才规模最大的学校，是我国“三大行业”高层次人才培养和科技创新的重要基地。学校现有马房山校区、余家头校区和南湖校区，占地4000余亩。2016年，学校同时进入世界四个大学排行榜：THE世界大学980强排行榜、QS亚洲大学350强排行榜、US News世界大学750强排行榜和ARWU世界大学学术排名500强排行榜，是同时进入四个大学排行榜的26所中国大陆高校之一。



学校现有教职工5510人，其中教授790人、副教授1391人，包括中国工程院院士2人，比利时皇家科学院院士1人，澳大利亚工程院院士1人。学校大力实施国际化战略，在材料科学与工程、机械工程、船舶与海洋工程等学科领域面向全球聘任22名国际知名科学家为战略科学家。学校现有24个学院（部），共有全日制学生50587人，其中本科生36892人、博士和硕士研究生12471人、留学生1224人。学校现有8个国家重点学科，包括77个博士学位授权点、226个硕士学位授权点和87个本科专业。

学校在新材料与建筑材料、交通与物流、机电与汽车、信息、新能源、资源环境、公共安全与应急管理等领域建有材料复合新技术国家重点实验室、硅酸盐建筑材料国家重点实验室、光纤传感技术国家工程实验室、国家水运安全工程技术研究中心等27个国家级和省部级科研基地。

近5年来，学校从国家和行业企业共获得科研经费36亿元，学校共获国家科技奖励8项，年度获奖数分别位居中国大陆高校第13位、27位、6位、26位、26位。
2001年，学校在武汉东湖国家自主创新示范区建设科技园，占地820亩，大力促进产学研结合，推动科技成果转化和产业化。科技园创办五大高新科技企业，包括新材料技术、光纤传感与物联网技术、新能源汽车技术、高速船舶技术、港口信息与物流技术。近3年来，学校科技产业销售收入达50多亿元。

学校与美国、英国、日本、法国、澳大利亚、俄罗斯、荷兰等国家的190多所大学和科研机构建立了人才培养和科技合作关系，聘请了300余名国外知名学者担任学校战略科学家、客座和名誉教授。2007年以来，学校先后获批建立了材料复合新技术与先进功能材料、高性能船舶关键技术、功能薄膜新材料先进制备技术及工程应用、新能源汽车科学与关键技术等4个学科创新引智基地和材料复合新技术国际联合实验室、环境友好建筑材料国际科技合作基地等2个国际科技合作基地。2009年以来，学校先后与美国、英国、意大利、荷兰的著名高校建立了8个高水平国际合作研究平台，包括武汉理工大学—哈佛大学纳米联合实验室、武汉理工大学—密歇根大学新能源材料技术联合实验室、武汉理工大学—南安普顿大学高性能船舶技术联合中心等。

学校长期的育人实践，形成了特色鲜明的办学思想体系。确立了“建设让人民满意、让世人仰慕的优秀大学”的大学理想，“厚德博学、追求卓越”的大学精神，“育人为本、学术至上”的办学理念，“实施卓越教育、培养卓越人才、创造卓越人生”的卓越教育理念。学校致力于为社会培养一代又一代以智慧引领人生、具有卓越追求和卓越能力的卓越人才。



About WUT
Wuhan University of Technology (hereafter referred to as WUT) is one of the leading Chinese universities under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education and one of the universities constructed in priority by the “State 211 Project” for Chinese higher education institutions. In the past 60 years, WUT has fostered over 400,000 engineers and technicians, maintaining itself the largest scale university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education for nurturing talents oriented in the three industrial sectors: building materials industry, transportation industry and automobile industry and retaining itself an important base of nurturing high-level talents for the three industrial sectors as well as providing significant scientific and technological achievements. The University has three main campuses, namely, the Mafangshan Campus, the Yujiatou Campus and the South Lake Campus, with a total occupying land area of 267 hectares. In 2016, the University comes to the Top 200 in Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, the Top 980 in Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the Top 350 in QS Asia University Rankings, the top 750 in U.S.News World University Rankings and the top 500 in ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities. WUT is one of the 26 Chinese universities in Mainland China listed in the four rankings.

WUT has 5,510 staff members, including 790 professors, 1,391 associate professors, 2 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 1 fellow of the Royal Academy of Belgium and 1 fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Besides, the University has held public global recruitment of 22 world-renowned professors to be its “Strategic Scientists” in the area of Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology and Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering. The University also has over 36,892 undergraduates, 12,471 postgraduates (including Master and PhD students) and 1,224 international students housed in 24 academic schools, studying across eight state key disciplines in 77 Doctoral programs, 226 Masters programs and 87 Bachelors programs.

WUT owns 27 innovative research centers with international leading level including two State Key Laboratories, one State Engineering Laboratory, one National Engineering Research Center and ministerial or provincial level laboratories in the areas of new materials and building materials, transportation and logistics, mechatronics and automobile, information technology, new energy, resources and environmental technology as well as Public Safety and Emergency Management. 

In the last five years, WUT has received funding of over 3.6 billion Yuan from government and industrial sectors for high-tech research and development, and has won 8 national awards for outstanding scientific research achievements and inventions. These inventions have placed WUT 13th, 27th, 6th, 26th and 26th amongst all Chinese higher education institutions.
In 2001, the University established its Science Park in China Optical Valley in Wuhan, covering an area of 58.7 hectares. The Science Park has incubated and fostered more than six high-tech enterprises that work on new materials, fiber optical sensors, high-speed shipping, new energy technology and advanced manufacturing. In the last three years, the total revenue of the Science Park reached more than 5 billion Yuan.

WUT has established cooperative relations for students exchange and scientific research with more than 190 foreign universities and research institutions from USA, UK, Japan, France, Australia, Russia and the Netherlands, etc. and invited over 300 international famous scholars to be strategic scientist, guest professors or honorary professors. From 2007, WUT was authorized to establish 3 Bases of Foreign Outstanding Expertise-Introduction for Disciplines Innovation in China Leading Universities in Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Advanced Technology for High Performance Ship and Advanced Technology for Functional Film Materials Fabrication and Its Application in Engineering, as well, the International Joint Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing and the Base of International Science and Technology Cooperation in Environmental-friendly Building Materials were established. From 2009, WUT has established 8 International Joint Research Centers with internationally renowned institutions from USA, UK, Italy and the Netherlands, including the “WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory” with Harvard University, the “WUT- UM Joint New Energy Material and Conversion Technology Key Laboratory” with the University of Michigan, the “WUT-UoS High Performance Ship Technology Joint Center” with the University of Southampton and the “Joint Research Center for Intelligent Ship and Traffic” with Delft University of Technology.

With the practice of long-term student’s education, WUT has formed educational ideology system with distinctive characteristics: focusing on the lofty ideal and core value of building an excellent university to win a worldwide recognition and admiration, the University has forged the spirit of “Sound in Morality, Broad in Learning and Pursuing Excellence”, promoted the guiding principle of “take the students cultivation as our essence, and take academic development as our priority”,and exercised the educational concept of “implementing excellent education, nurturing excellent talents and creating an excellent life”. WUT is committed to building an excellent university that provides an excellent education to lead our students to a fulfilled life with excellent pursuit and excellent capability.