Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai

Harbin Institute of Technology, an internationally renowned technical university located by the Songhua River with nearly 100 years’ development.

Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, a campus of HIT on the shores of the Yellow Sea offers beautiful scenery and the prospect of a bright future.

As a world-renowned technical university, HIT is one of the first batch top 9 key universities involved in Project 985 of Ministry of Education in China, known as the C9 League, which means Chinese top nine universities. HIT owns three thousand high quality faculty members, among them there are 35 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In HIT, 9 first-class disciplines belong to national key disciplines, and 10 disciplines are ranked in top five in China. The number of national key disciplines related to engineering in HIT ranks No. 2 in all of China. In recent years, HIT has become the 7th best global university for engineering in the world.

Thirty-two years ago, HIT set up a new chapter in Weihai, a beautiful and best livable coastal city by the Yellow Sea. With three decades’ development, great changes have taken place. HIT, Weihai has now grown into a well-known campus and keeps step with HIT as it develops into a world-famous university.

HIT, Weihai now has more than 11,000 full-time students, including undergraduates, graduates and PH.D candidates, and 535 academic faculty members. There are ten schools and department in HIT, Weihai, including the School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, the School of Marine Science and Technology, the School of Automotive Engineering, the School of Information and Electrical Engineering, the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, the School of Material Science and Engineering, the School of Science, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Languages and Literature and the Department of Civil Engineering. HIT, Weihai offers 37 undergraduate programs, and accord with HIT, Harbin in offering 39 Masters and 27 Doctoral programs. Besides, it offers two first-class discipline Masters Programs, i.e. Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering and Marine Science, which are supported by HIT-Project-985. Presently, HIT, Weihai is equipped with provincial 8 key disciplines, and 6 provincial distinct specialties. In 2016, HIT Weihai founded the International School of Ocean Science and Engineering, led by a world-class international expert as its dean.

HIT, Weihai attaches great importance to encouraging innovation spirit and ability, strengthen solid study foundation, strong hand-on practice, powerful personal competence and strict processes in its educational approach, and has cultivated many talented graduates. Our qualified students receive the same degree certificates issued by HIT. They have gone on to be successfully employed by large state-owned enterprises, emerging high-tech enterprises and international companies. 90% of these graduates are satisfied in their new jobs, and most employers unanimously give them favorable evaluations. Additionally, a lot of students go abroad for international exchange and further study, with their steps in USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherland, Australia, Singapore, Korea, Japan as well as other countries and regions.

Following in the HIT, Harbin campus’s footsteps toward developing into a world-class university, HIT, Weihai has set its sights on developing into a high-level and special featured HIT campus to adapt to the world class university through constructing a internationalized campus, building leading disciplines, cultivating high-quality talents and producing advanced achievements.

HIT, Weihai, a beautiful campus of HIT, as one of the top 9 universities in China, is opening its arms to welcome all of you.