Taiyuan university of technology is a national "double first-class" key construction universities, from the former taiyuan university of technology and the former shanxi mining college formed by the merger. After 116 years of development, the university has become an institution of higher learning with a focus on engineering, a combination of science and technology and a coordinated development of multiple disciplines. Has been rated as "excellent unit of job of teaching of undergraduate course of common colleges and universities", "national civilized unit", "national civilized campus" in "the national first batch of deepening the reform of creative education in colleges and universities" demonstration "national demonstration base of cultivating creative personnel" "national university practice education innovation entrepreneurship base", was named "national May Day labor diploma", "national advanced basic-level party organization".

The school is rooted in the land of sanjin and has a broad platform for talents. At present, the school covers an area of more than 3,200 mu, with a floor space of 1.49 million square meters. At present, there are 31154 full-time undergraduates, 5,692 postgraduate students, 736 doctoral students and 507 international students. It has 81 undergraduate programs, 31 first-level master's programs, 15 first-level doctoral programs and 13 post-doctoral research stations. With three national key disciplines, four national experimental teaching demonstration center, five national characteristic specialty construction points, seven national engineering practice education center, a provincial construction of state key laboratory breeding base, the four key laboratory of the ministry of education, an important fields of science and technology innovation team, creative team 2 the ministry of education Yangtze river scholars, engineering, materials science, chemistry three entered the ESI global top 1%; Currently, there are 3,531 faculty members, including 2,068 full-time teachers, 2 academicians of the academy of engineering, 185 doctoral supervisors and 938 teachers with senior professional and technical titles.