湖南信息学院是经中华人民共和国教育部批准建立的应用型本科大学，隶属湖南省人民政府管理，位于中国历史文化名城长沙，坐落于国务院原总理朱镕基的家乡——长沙经济技术开发区毛塘工业园。学校下设电子信息学院、管理学院、商学院、艺术学院、马克思主义学院、创新创业学院、继续教育学院、国际学院（筹）等二级学院，开设工学、管理学、经济学、艺术学等多个学科门类，30余个本、专科专业，现在校学生近14000人。

    办学理念。学校以“教育报国”为己任；以“生态化、信息化、国际化”为标准；以“自强不息，敢为人先”为校训；以“立品行、求品质、讲品位、创品牌”为校风；以“创新、内涵、特色、优质、共享”为发展理念；以“人格健全、心理健康、身体健美、专业坚实”“德、智、体、美、劳全面发展”为人才培养标准；以办“中国特色、世界先进水平的技术大学”为发展目标。

    办学条件。学校占地1000多亩，生态化校园风景如画，五湖、五园、五桥、五广场相映成趣，处处是美景、处处有文化、处处能育人，被誉为“中国高校最美校园之一”；学生公寓典雅温馨、设施先进、生态环保，被誉为“中国高校最舒适的学生公寓之一”；建有纸质与数字图书共享的现代化图书馆，馆藏资源丰富，教学资源库完善；建成了中国高校最先进的多屏多媒体智慧教室和有线无线全覆盖的“顶级信息高速公路”、“一心三云”智慧校园；实施办学思想中国化、办学理念国际化、教学资源全球化、
教学手段现代化、师生评价科学化、管理服务精细化，被誉为中国高校信息技术人才培养的先行者。

    师资队伍。学校按照“管理队伍精英化、教师队伍职业化、服务队伍专业化”的要求，建立了以青年博士、教授为代表的“青年教师创新教学团队”，以海外归国人才为代表的“海外教学团队”，以企事业高管、高级技术人员为代表的“实践教学团队”；建立了五级教师教学能力评价制度；构建了现代大学优绩优酬的待遇体系，为建设一支师德高尚、业务精湛、结构合理的高素质、创新型、应用型师资队伍提供了坚实的保障。

    共享机制。学校始终坚持共享发展理念，开办了全国高校首所教职工子弟免费学前教育附属幼儿园；提供了免费拎包居住的精装修教师公寓；建成了优秀教职工、专家海南免费休养基地；实行了“湘信学者”“首席专家”等人才特殊津贴制度；设立了教职工家庭重大事故救助基金；实行了教职工年金制度；建立了教职工、专家“功勋、功臣、功德”“湘信学者”和学生“湘信英才奖学金”及贫困生五级等奖助制度，实现了不让一名学生因家庭困难而辍学的承诺；开展了对口支持企业、薄弱学校帮扶工作。

    育人质量。学校不断朝着优质卓越攀登，以与国防科技大学合作建设的北斗卫星开放实验室为引领，以国家、省市支持建设的100多个实验（训）室（中心）为依托，以1000多家校企合作企业为支撑，形成了校校、校政、校企合作共赢的创新协同育人机制；加强“一院一品”建设和凝练，构建了“聚智”“聚能”“聚思”“聚美”四大书院育人新格局；形成了毕业生参军入伍、创业、考研、就业等多元化的发展机制，学生就业率和就业质量始终保持在湖南省高校第一方阵前位。

    办学声誉。学校先后获得教育部人才培养工作水平评估优秀等级、中央综治委平安校园建设优秀成果奖、省综治工作先进单位、省级示范性院校、省级高等教育教学成果一等奖、省党建工作先进高校、省文明单位、省平安高校、省信息化校园示范高校、省大学生就业创业示范建设高校、省民办普通本科学校办学情况优秀等级等600多项荣誉，被省教育厅推选为教育部“全国民办高校内涵发展创新案例”。在党委、政府、科研机构、协会、第三方机构等组织的办学情况评估、评价、评比等工作中，始终保持同类院校全省领军、全国领先地位，受到了国家领导人和社会各界的高度赞誉，被誉为中国高校校风最优校园之一。

    办学目标。学校立足于以“互联网+”、云计算、大数据、人工智能为标志的信息技术时代，紧紧围绕“一带一部”“中部崛起”“长江经济带”“中国制造 2025”“富饶美丽幸福新湖南”和“长沙国家中心城市”发展战略的人才需求导向，充分发挥学校地处省会长沙的区位优势，体制机制优势，生态环境优势，“互联网+”、云计算、大数据、人工智能新时代的大发展优势，“自强不息，敢为人先”的学校文化优势，致力打造校园环境最美丽、校风教风学风最优良、师生家长最满意的示范性文明校园，建成办学理念最先进、专业设置最前瞻、教学设施最前沿、人才培养模式最创新、师资结构最科学、人才培养质量最优质的一流高校。正在创造条件将学校更名为湖南信息大学！

    立足湖南、放眼世界、扎根中国办大学，学校正朝着“中国特色、世界先进水平的技术大学”目标阔步前进！

Hunan University of Information Technology (HNUIT) is an applied undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and affiliated with Hunan Provincial People’s Government. The campus, situated in the Maotang Industrial Park, Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone, enjoys a favorable geographical location and convenient access to all destinations. The university consists of the schools of Electronic Information, Management, Business, Art, Marxism, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Further Education, as well as International School (preparatory). HNUIT offers over 30 full-time undergraduate degree and associate degree programs. Up to now, a comprehensive multi-discipline network, under the structure of engineering, management, economics and arts, has been shaped for its strategic development. The university attracts about 14,000 full-time students from different places across the nation.

The school’s mission: The university takes “serving the country by education” as its own responsibility; Its standard is “ecologicalization, informationization and internationalization”; Its motto is “pursuing excellence and daring to be pioneers”; Its spirit is “culturing proper behavior, pursuing high quality administration, treasuring elegant living taste, establishing predominant achievement”; Its development concept is “innovation, connotation, characteristics, quality and sharing”; Its standard for talents cultivation is “sound morality, healthy mentality, physical fitness, professional solidity”, and “the all-round development of morality, intelligence, body, beauty and labor”; Its development goal is “building a world-class university of science and technology with Chinese characteristics”.

The school’s conditions: The campus covers a total area of 666,667 square meters with picturesque scenery including five lakes, five gardens, five bridges and five squares, which is renowned as one of the most beautiful universities in China. The beautiful and smart campus has been filled with clusters of modern and elegant constructions, ranging from academic buildings, library, laboratory, and well-equipped student residential facilities. Also, the university has been hailed as the pioneer in the cultivation of information technology personnel in China’s universities. HNUIT implements the sinicization of school-operating methodology, the internationalization of school education concepts, the globalization of teaching resources, the modernization of teaching methods, the scientific evaluation of teachers and students, and the refinement of management services.

Faculty and staff: HNUIT has established a “young teacher innovation teaching team” represented by young doctors and professors, an “overseas teaching team” represented by overseas returnees, a “practical teaching team” represented by enterprises and senior technical personnel. Moreover, it has established a five-level teachers’ teaching ability evaluation system and built a modern university preferential treatment system for the construction of the high-quality, innovative and applied faculty with teacher’s morality, exquisite workmanship and reasonable structure.

The sharing mechanism: Adhering to the concept of shared development, HNUIT has opened a free preschool education affiliated kindergarten for the children of the faculty and staff, which is pioneering among China’s universities. The university has also provided well-decorated teacher’s apartments and built a free recuperation base in Hainan for excellent faculty. It has also implemented a special allowance system for talents such as “Xiangxin Scholar” and “Chief Expert”, established a major accident rescue fund for faculty and staff, and implemented the faculty and staff annuity system. Furthermore, the university has established an award system to provide excellent students with scholarship and the poverty-stricken students with financial aid, which fulfills the promise of not letting a student drop out of school due to family difficulties. 

The school’s quality: The university, guided by the Beidou Open Laboratory of Changsha built in cooperation with the National University of Defense Technology, relying on more than 100 laboratories and training centers supported by the state, provinces and municipalities, and supported by more than 1,000 school-enterprise cooperative enterprises, continues to climb towards high quality and excellence, and a win-win innovative and cooperative education mechanism of school-school, school-government and school-enterprise cooperation has been formed. The university strengthens the construction of “one college, one feature” and builds a new pattern of educating college students with four academies: “gathering wisdom”, “gathering talents”, “gathering thought” and “gathering beauty” academies. A diversified development mechanism has been formed for graduates to join the army, start their own businesses, take postgraduate entrance examinations, and obtain employment. The employment rate and quality of graduates have always been in the forefront of colleges and universities in Hunan province.

The school’s reputation: The university has successively won more than 600 honors such as Excellent Grade in the Evaluation on the Level of Personnel Training by the Ministry of Education, Excellent Achievement Award for Safe Campus Construction by the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, the Provincial Advanced Unit of Comprehensive Management, the Provincial Demonstration University, the First Prize for Provincial Teaching Achievement in Higher Education, the Provincial Advanced University of Party Construction, the Provincial Civilized Unit, the Provincial Safe University, the Provincial Demonstration University with Information Campus, Provincial Demonstration and Construction University on College Students’ Employment and Entrepreneurship, and Excellent Grade in School Running among Provincial Private Regular Undergraduate Institutions. The university has been selected by the Provincial Education Department as “A Case of Innovation in the Connotative Development of National Private Colleges and Universities” of the Ministry of Education. In the assessment, evaluation, and comparison of school running organized by Party committees, governments, scientific research institutions, associations, third-party organizations, etc, the university has always maintained the leading position of the same kind of colleges and universities in the whole province and the whole country, has been highly praised by the leaders of the state and all walks of life, and is praised as one of the best campuses in the school spirit of Chinese universities and colleges.

The school’s objectives: The school, based on the age of information technology marked by “Internet +”, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, focuses on the demand orientation of the development strategies of “One Belt, One Road”, “the Rise of Central China”, “the Yangtze River Economic Belt”, “Made in China 2025”, “Rich, Beautiful and Happy New Hunan” and “Changsha National Central City”, so as to give full play to the advantages of the location of the school which is located in Changsha, the capital city, the system and mechanism, the ecological environment, the great development of “internet plus”, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence in the new era, and the school cultural superiority of “pursuing excellence and daring to be pioneers”. The university strives to create a demonstrative civilized campus with the most beautiful campus environment, the fine school spirit, teaching spirit and learning spirit, where teachers, students and parents are most satisfied. The university is committed to building a first-class university with the most advanced school-running concept, the most forward-looking professional settings, the most advanced teaching facilities, the most innovative personnel training mode, the most scientific structure of staff and the highest quality of personnel training. The university is creating conditions to build a first class university of information technology.

Based on Hunan, having the whole world in view and taking root in China, the university is striding towards the goal of “building a world-class university of science and technology with Chinese characteristics”.