Dalian University of Technology Dagong, for short, is located in Dalian. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China. The Ministry of education and the State Administration of science, technology and industry for national defense jointly build universities, the Ministry of education, Liaoning Province and Dalian jointly build universities, "A-class universities in the construction of world-class universities", key universities in the construction of national "985 Project" and "211 Project", excellent university alliance and Sino Russian cooperation Major members of the Engineering University Alliance, Sino Russian Jiaotong University Alliance, China EU engineering education platform, National Symposium on science and technology work of 16 key engineering universities, and China artificial intelligence education joint conference were selected as national "2011 plan", "111 plan", excellent engineer education and training plan, national construction of high-level university public postgraduate project, new engineering research and practice project, and China University of engineering The first batch of colleges and universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the first batch of national colleges and universities to practice education, innovation and entrepreneurship bases, and the first batch of colleges and universities to transform and transfer scientific and technological achieveThe predecessor of Dalian University of technology is the Institute of technology of Dalian University, which was founded in April 1949. In July 1950, the establishment of Dalian University was abolished, and the Institute of technology of Dalian University became Dalian Institute of technology independently. In March 1988, it was renamed Dalian University of technology.As of January 2020, the university has three campuses including Dalian Lingshui, development zone and Panjin, with a total area of 3.5713 million square meters and a building area of 1.755 million square meters. It has six academic departments, 17 independent colleges and teaching departments, three special colleges and one independent college, with a total of 88 undergraduate majors. It has 29 first-class doctoral programs, 42 first-class master programs and 25 first-class master programs There are 4082 teaching staff, 4737 doctoral students, 13171 master students and 25611 undergraduate students.