Company visited · Engineering university
SCUT
In house
- 300 joint laboratories
- Patents for equity
With companies
- A third of the funding
- 10,000 contracts in five years
12,000
companies created
What struck usA third of the university's funding comes from companies.
For youEach year, hand a production topic to an engineering school or a lab, with a budget and an owner on your side.
Public benchmarks
Founded in 1952 by merging engineering faculties from five provinces. Under the Ministry of Education, Double First-Class programme. Ranked 251-300 in the THE 2025 rankings.42
300 joint laboratories
Students train on real equipment, from robot programming to automated warehouses.
Patents for equity
Since 2018, the university has exchanged its patents for an equity stake in companies.
42. SCUT, presentation; Times Higher Education, 2025 rankings.
Header photo: the SCUT library, Wikimedia Commons.