Academics and Student Life
Characterized by aeronautics and astronautics, Shenyang Aerospace University is a multi-disciplinary university, which, while focusing on engineering, also covers such areas as science, liberal arts and management. The university comprises 17 schools, with over 900 lecturers, including 400 professors and associate professors. There are 20,000 full-time students in SAU. The university has over 50,000 graduates, whose competence, loyalty and achievements have been well accepted by the society. A great number of them are now working as senior engineers or executives. The recent employment of the graduates has been maintained at the average of 95.7%.
The innovative spirit of the university could be traced back as early as the 1950s, when its independently developed aircraft Shenhang No. 1 flew into the sky successfully. Since 1990s, SAU has been successively awarded the Torch Research-oriented University by Shenyang Municipal Government.
Aiming at developing the students' full potentials, the university actively establishes outstanding clubs and takes part in a variety of high-level scientific activities, which results in the students' achievements in various contests, such as the Aircraft Model Contest, Mathematics Modeling Contest, Challenge Cup, Mechanical Design Contest, Electronic Design Contest, English Speaking Contest, Environment Art Design Contest and Industrial Design Contest.
Every year, the university sends lecturers abroad for study, academic exchanges and scientific cooperation. Close academic and cooperative ties have thus been established between SAU and foreign institutions, which extends more than 30 universities from countries, such as the USA, UK, Russia, Australia, Korea, Japan, etc.
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