According to a report from Urban Newspaper, in 2013, which was known as “the harshest year of employment for graduates”, the employment of HUAT’s graduates reached 94.31%, the fourth time it ranked the top of employment rate among the provincial universities.
What is behind the figures and rank? The answer is that the five features makes it.
Feature one: industry background
HUAT was founded for automobiles and became prosperous and well-known for automobiles. As the unique university named as automobile in the country, HUAT has been closely centering around automobile chain, relying on DFM ( Dongfeng Motor Company), and has formed its own features of running a university. With the fast development of automobile industry in China, the enterprises and companies related with automobile offer a wide employment platform for its graduates. Now it has established 90 production, learning and research bases, 160 internship bases outside the campus. In addition, it has developed customized training programs for more than 10 enterprises and companies according to their need for employees.
According to the statistics, HUAT has delivered more than 30 thousand graduates for the society over the past 40 years, many of whom have become elite of their companies. HUAT is now honored as “the cradle of automobile engineers in China.
Feature two: Teachers with double backgrounds
Teachers with double backgrounds make HUAT unique among universities in China. 60% of the staff come from industries or have at least two years’ engineering experience in companies or enterprises, which makes them know what kind of graduates are popular with enterprises and companies and how to work out special curriculums to cultivate talents with engineering innovative ideas, highly capable of hands-on abilities.
From the beginning of 2010, HUAT would send 30 young teachers to enterprise or companies, a program called “young teachers into enterprises”. Two years of experience in the enterprises has made them members of the “teachers with double backgrounds.”
Feature three: Plenty of technology innovation activity
HUAT has been aware that graduates with rich experience of innovative activities and competitions are most favored by enterprises. So students are encouraged to take part in various kinds of practice, out-of-class innovative activities and competitions, which, in turn, increasingly helps improve education contents and methods. Statistics shows that more than 80% of students have had such experience.
In the past 3 years, students won more than 1,000 various kinds of innovation competitions within the province, among which 120 were national levels. What is worth mentioning is that in the final competition of National undergraduate students “Freescale Cup Intelligent Car”（FCIC）-2010, the students won several first prizes in six sessions on end; in the competition of “Car Design Awards-2010, the students won the only one prize called “Especially Recommended award” issued by the committee. And in the competition of “Formula Student China （FSC）, the students won 7 prizes and national champion in the final.
Feature four: high quality students
Good employment prospects attracted a large number of students with dreams of automobiles around the country. For example, Mr Wang Jiang, a former student who graduated in 2010, participated in FCIC several times during his study in HUAT. After graduation, he started his own business whose products are sold to countries in Europe and America and in 2011 he was awarded an honor entitled “outstanding contribution”. Among former graduates there are many such examples.
Another statistics shows that registration increases steadily 5% by year, which means HUAT has a wide choice of promising applicants and thus lays a solid foundation for the future employment of its graduates. .
Feature five: Good Alumni Resources
HUAT’s Alumni are all over the country and their excellent performance in the companies and enterprises also win a good reputation for their alma mater, and of course, provide more employment opportunities for future graduates. Take Mr. Lin Zehong, who graduated from HUAT in 1987, graduate for example. He has become the backbone of his company’s technical department and every year he would come to HUAT for graduates and this June he delivered 6 offers to graduates from college of material engineering.
If your company or enterprise is related to automobile industry and is looking for competent employees, go to HUAT and your need will be fully satisfied.
