The predecessor of the College of Mining at Guizhou University was the Department of Mining Engineering at Guizhou Institute of Technology (later renamed Guizhou University of Technology), established in 1958. With over 60 years of educational history, the college currently offers four undergraduate programs: Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing Engineering, Safety Engineering, and Surveying and Mapping Engineering. It has three first-level discipline master's programs in Mining Engineering, Safety Science and Engineering, and Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology; one master's degree authorization point in Resources and Environment; and one doctoral degree authorization point in Resources and Environment.
As of March 2024, the college has 95 faculty and staff members, including 74 full-time teachers, 11 professional laboratory technicians, and 10 teaching assistants. Among the full-time teachers, there are 59 with senior professional titles (22 full professors and 37 associate professors) and 46 with doctoral degrees. The college boasts 16 doctoral supervisors (11 in-house and 5 external), and 55 master's supervisors (45 in-house and 10 external). The faculty includes one young scholar from the National Talent Program, two recipients of the State Council special allowance, three outstanding young scientific talents from Guizhou Province, two Tier One talents of Guizhou Province, one key contact expert and four contact experts from the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, three high-level innovative talents of Guizhou Province, four academic discipline leaders, and four provincial-level scientific and technological innovation talent teams.
The college houses four high-level experimental platforms: the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Karst Area Dominant Mineral Resources, the Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Comprehensive Utilization of Non-metallic Mineral Resources, the Guizhou Provincial Engineering Center for Safe Mining Technology of Complex Geological Mines, and the Guizhou University Gas Disaster Prevention and Coalbed Methane Development Research Institute.
The college adheres to the educational philosophy of teaching for the foundation, research for development, and talent for strength, inspiring and uniting its faculty and staff. Students are motivated and determined to succeed, driving substantial progress across all areas of the college. All four undergraduate programs—Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing Engineering, Safety Engineering, and Surveying and Mapping Engineering—have been approved as national first-class undergraduate program construction points. Mining Engineering and Mineral Processing Engineering have also received new engineering research and practice projects from the Ministry of Education and have passed the China Engineering Education Accreditation. The Safety Engineering and Surveying and Mapping Engineering programs are expected to pass the accreditation this year. The Mining Engineering program is also an Excellence Engineer Training Unit of the Ministry of Education. Through years of development, the college has established distinct research directions with significant disciplinary advantages, including safe mining technology under complex geological conditions, efficient separation technology for complex and refractory mineral resources, ecological environment improvement, and prediction technology for sudden dynamic disasters in mines. In the past five years, the college has undertaken 45 national-level scientific research projects, including national key R&D programs, and 66 provincial and ministerial-level projects, receiving 36 provincial and ministerial scientific and technological awards, including the First and Second Prizes for Scientific and Technological Progress in Guizhou Province. A series of achievements have been applied in large enterprises such as Guizhou Energy Group, with significant social and economic benefits, leading technological progress in the safe mining of mineral resources in the southwest karst region.
In the next step, the College of Mining at Guizhou University will further strengthen communication and cooperation with industry management departments and leading enterprises such as the Guizhou Provincial Energy Bureau, Guizhou Energy Group, Guizhou Phosphate Group, Guizhou Zijin Mining, and Lunan Mining. The college will enhance multi-party collaboration in government-industry-university-research-application, maximize the synergistic effect of its academic resources, scientific research capabilities, and high-level talent, and focus on tackling key common technologies in the mining field. Efforts will be concentrated on overcoming major technical challenges in areas such as coordinated development of coal-associated minerals, intelligent rapid tunneling, pumped-storage power stations in abandoned mines, and simultaneous extraction of underground coal gasification and coalbed methane, providing technological support for the efficient mining of rich minerals in Guizhou Province.