There are 3 universities in Shantou ***, including 2 undergraduate colleges and 1 junior college. The details are as follows:
1. Shantou University? Undergraduate
Shantou University, referred to as "Shantou University", is located in Shantou City, Guangdong Province. It is one of the 10 provincial-level 211 comprehensive universities established in 1981 with the approval of the State Council during the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" and "Tenth Five-Year Plan" of Guangdong Province. University. Shantou University was established in early 1979. On August 26, 1981, the State Council approved the establishment of Shantou University, and Marshal Ye Jianying personally inscribed the school's name.
In 1983, it began to recruit undergraduate students. In 1993, the school obtained the right to grant master's degrees and began to recruit graduate students independently. In 1998, it was added as a doctorate-granting unit by the State Council. In June 2012, the Ministry of Education, the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and the Li Ka-shing Foundation officially established Shantou University.
2. Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology? Undergraduate program
Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) is located in Shantou City, Guangdong Province. It is jointly organized by the world-renowned Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Guangdong Shantou University. It is China's first Sino-foreign cooperative university with independent legal personality that introduces high-quality higher education resources from Israel.
The Guangdong Province and Shantou Municipal Government allocated RMB 900 million and a piece of land with an area of ??416,000 square meters (623.45 acres) to support the construction and initial operating expenses of the college. The Guangdong Provincial Finance and Shantou Municipal Finance fully bear the campus construction and subject funding of the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and are expected to invest more than 4 billion yuan in its construction.
3. Shantou Vocational and Technical College? Junior College
Shantou Polytechnic was approved by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government in 2002 and sponsored by the Shantou Municipal People's Government. It is located in the former Shantou, Guangdong Province. It is a full-time general higher education institution at the junior college level established on the basis of the merger of the College of Education (including Shantou Preschool Normal School), Shantou Commercial Supply and Marketing School, Shantou Mechanical and Electrical School and Shantou Teacher Training School.
The college has basically formed a school-running system with a complete range of disciplines such as liberal arts, science, engineering, art, and teacher education. General education and adult education coexist in colleges, technical secondary schools, and academic education and vocational training.
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