Liaoyang Professional Technology Institute

Liaoyang Professional Technology Institute, based in Liaoyang, is a full-time tertiary college and the only municipal college concentrating on higher education in vocational technologies.
Located in Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoyang city is famous for its historical and cultural heritage and isalso known for its modern petrochemical and textile industries.
The college is composed of three campuses---- the main campus, the branch for primary school teachers’ training and the branch of continuing education. The whole college covers an area of 202,400 m2, with 86,367 m2 of floor area. With fixed assets value of 130 million, the college is well equipped with modern facilities for teaching purposes. There are 6 comprehensive teaching buildings, two libraries, a recreational house, a gymnasium, an art center and a newly-built lab building with multimedia classrooms and an internet website system. There are all together 22 laboratories for physics, electronics, biochemistry and farming, and computer science. The laboratories are equipped with some 800 sets of advanced computers and other modern facilities for teaching purposes. With a US$ 3.6 million loan from the Austrian Government, the college is building its training center for Chemical Engineering Department on the main campus.
There are six student dormitories, five dining-halls, a newly-built standardized stadium, several courts for basketball and volleyball, a tennis court and some scenic spots for students to enjoy the leisure hours and to relax. It is an ideal place for higher learning.
There are 35 majors distributed amongst 13 departments. Among the 630 staff, there are 159 professors, 280 lecturers, 150 teaching assistants and 3 foreign teachers in the Foreign Language Department. To satisfy market needs, the college is actively searching for new concepts in educating its students in the area of higher vocational skills. For the purpose of upgrading its teaching, the college is planning to send its backbone teachers to do further learning in some key universities and colleges both home and abroad. With 5,000 students enrolled, the college has contributed a great deal to the local economy by education high quality employees. For its innovations and its achievements in education, the college has been honored with many titles by the provincial government and provincial Educational Committee since last year.
The college has cooperated with Northeast University in the area of distant education via computer network. This has built an interchange between secondary and higher vocational education, regular education& adult education, diploma education and vocational education. At present, traditional classroom teaching is running side by side with modern distant education, forming a multi-level, multi mode system of vocational education.
Looking into the future, the faculties of the college are very confident. They are aiming at building the college into one of the first rate vocational universities in the country.