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汕头职业技术学院是经广东省人民政府批准，汕头市人民政府主办、主管，在原汕头教育学院（含汕头幼儿师范学校）、汕头商业供销学校、汕头机电学校和汕头市教师进修学校等院校合并的基础上设立的的公立全日制普通高等学校。

学院由院本部、金园校区、新津校区和东墩校区四个校区组成，占地1252亩。其中院本部位于风光秀丽的汕头市濠江区东湖山麓，占地1056亩；金园校区位于汕头市区金园路原汕头教育学院和汕头幼儿师范学校校址，占地56亩；新津校区位于汕头市龙湖区外充公，占地115亩；东墩校区位于汕头市蛇针路8号，占地25亩。学院总建筑面积23.5万平方米，教学、实验实习设备总值约4841万元，图书藏量93万册。近三年毕业生就业率分别为92.66%、95.28%、97%。

学院共开设57个大专专业（含方向）和10多个中职类专业。现有全日制大、中专在校生14119人；成人学历大专生、联合办学的本科班学生1500多人。在编教职工725人，其中硕士以上学位者173人，具有副教授及以上专业技术职称者133人，同时还聘请一批实践经验丰富的专家、高中级工程师为兼职教师。

学院设有计算机系、机电工程系、经济管理系、自然科学系、人文社科系、外语系、艺术体育系、学前教育系、中专部、思想政治理论课教学部、成人教育部、中小学教师继续教育中心、现代教育技术中心、图书馆、技能实训中心等十五个教学、教辅部门。

学院积极与国际先进教育接轨，现已与英国胡佛汉顿大学和澳大利亚巴拉瑞特大学签订了合作办学协议，三年专科生毕业后可直接进入这两所大学攻读本科（一年）获得学士学位，并可继续攻读硕士、博士学位。同时，学院还组织开展大学生暑期赴美国带薪实习、旅行活动。此外，学院还与国内数所著名本科院校达成合作办学协议，以利于学院毕业生在国内继续深造。

创建以来，学院坚持以服务为宗旨，以就业为导向，以提高岗位能力为重点，以高技术应用型人才培养模式为基本特征，以推行全面职业素质教育和创业教育为个性化特色，树立“以人为本、以职业素质培养为核心”的教育理念，按照“知行合一、德技双馨”的校训要求，高起点，严要求，强技能，重实践，办学规模不断扩大，教学质量逐步提高，办学效益初步显现。

目前，学院已基本形成文、理、工、艺术和师范教育等学科门类齐备，大中专普通教育与成人教育并存，学历教育与职业培训共荣的办学体系，学院的知名度不断提高，发展规模和办学质量已位于省内同类院校前列。
 
General Information About Shantou Polytechnic

Sponsored by Shantou Municipal Government, Shantou Polytechnic is a college ratified by Guangdong Provincial Government March 29, 2002, by merging Shantou College of Education (Shantou Preschool Normal School included), Shantou Commercial Supply and Marketing School, Shantou Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School and Shantou Teacher Training School.

Shantou Polytechnic has four campuses: the Headquarter, which is located next to Donghu Mountain covering an area of 1252 mu(Chinese acre),Jinyuan Campus(56mu), located at the place where Shantou Education College and Shantou Preschool Normal School once lay, Xinjin Campus(115mu), at Waichonggong in Longhu district, and Dongdun Campus(25mu) at No.8 Shantou Snake Needle Road. It has 235,000 square meters of building areas. The teaching and experimental facilities are worth about48,410,000yuan and the library has 930,000 books. In the past three years, the employment rate of graduated students reached a height of 92.66%, 95.28%, and 97%.

It offers 57 majors(or orientations) for college students and more than 10 majors for secondary vocational students. Presently 14,119 full time students are studying at the college and there are more than 1,500 are grown-up students and undergraduate students studying in classes set by the college and its partners.It currently has 725 staff, of whom 173 are holding master degree and doctoral degree and 133 are professors and associate professors. The college also employs experienced scholars and senior engineers as part-time teachers.

The college has 15 departments and auxiliary units. They are: Department of Computer Sciences, Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Department of Economics and Management, Department of Natural Sciences, Department of Human & Social Sciences, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of Arts & Physical Education, Department of Preschool Education, Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching, Secondary Specialized School, Department of Adult Education, Center for Further Education, Modern Educational Technology Center, Library, and Skills Practicing Center.

It focuses mainly on full time degree-oriented education and also keeps an eye on adult education, further education and career training. During these years it has been playing an active role in joint ventures with international universities. By now it has signed an agreement with University of Wolverhampton to cooperate some programmes. That means that graduates of Shantou Polytechnic can enter University of Wolverhampton to further study for another year to get a bachelor degree and can go on wth their programmes for Master’s degrees. or even Ph.D. The college also formed partnership with some famous universities in China for joint programmes.

With service as its ultimate purpose and career training as its core, the college focuses mainly on students’ career capabilities. It cultivates hi-tec applied talents and specializes in carrying out comprehensive professional quality education and entrepreneurship education. It caters to the development of the local economy and serves the local society. It has been progressing and renovating to improve its standard and core competitiveness. Based in the east part of the province, its goal is to become a well known model vocational college with unique features in Guangdong.

Shantou Polytechnic’s motto: Agreement of Knowledge and Deeds, Acquisition of Both Virtues and Skills.