Each college and department shares the same goal of serving society. For example, the College of Engineering emphasizes projects for work-related education. The College of Business gives emphasis to cooperation with industries and promotes new concepts of business automation and e-commerce. It helps enterprises cultivate manpower, sets up management regulations, and improves business constitution. The College of Digital Design is devoted to the cultivation of integrated labor forces for digital industries, in response to the government’s agenda for the prospective digital-content industry. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences fosters language training and seeks to improve teaching quality in junior high schools, elementary schools, and kindergartens, supports arts and cultural activities, and aims to promote the humanities throughout society.

A strong motivation to acquiring new knowledge and state of the art techniques has led to a campus of prosperous academic research. Faculty members at STUST not only work hard to keep pace with new industrial trends, but also to transform their experience into material for educating students. STUST’s academic research achievements have gradually been recognized, mainly because of the strong driving force of university policy and the desire to become a distinguished university. Professors who are willing to conduct research projects are rewarded in various ways, especially those who have published papers in SCI and SSCI publications. Recently, we have emphasized inter-department or inter-college co-research, as well as collaborative research with other universities.

STUST will continue to promote innovative research in order to create an efficient, systematic, operating-cost-focused academic-internationalization-orientated model. This will be achieved via invention, patent output, improvements in teaching methods, and reform of administrative work.

The performance of industry-academia collaboration is one of the crucial indicators and distinctive features of technical and vocational education. By means of improving industrial technology R&D, promoting patent products, inviting experts from industries to co-teach and strengthening students’ practical ability in their specialized fields, we will not only increase the quantity but also enhance the quality of collaboration with the real world in order to enable STUST to become a perfect choice for industries to partner with.

In terms of promoting internationalization, STUST is a leading university of technology and has achieved outstanding performance regarding international student recruitment and study abroad programs. STUST will continue to expand international communication with Asia, North America, Europe, Australia, and Latin America and strengthen real communication by continuing both the mutual-visit program and teacher-student communication; furthermore, we will establish a joint research team to further internationalize our university’s endeavors.