The  Changchun Institute of Technology is a multi-disciplinary full-time university  with a primary focus on engineering, but also offers degrees in management,  business, and the humanities. CIT is affiliated with the Jilin Provincial  Government and recognized by the Jilin Province Academic Degrees Committee. CIT  is further recognized by the Ministry of Education and has the power to grant  bachelor and master degrees. CIT is dedicated to providing outstanding  engineering classes and excellent training programs.

CIT  currently has about 16000 full-time students, 213 post-graduate students, 25  Foreign Students, as well as more than 7000 part-time students.

CIT  has 17 schools: the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the School  of Electronics and Information Engineering, the School of Energy and Power  Engineering, the School of Civil Engineering, the School of Water Conservancy  and Environmental Engineering, the School of Prospecting & Surveying  Engineering, the School of Computer Technology and Engineering, the School of  Architecture and Design, the School of Business Management, the School of  Sciences, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of International  Education, the School of GraduateStudies,  the School of Marxism, the Department of Physical Education, the Engineering  Training Centre，the  School of Continuing Education, with electrical engineering and automation,  civil engineering, resource exploration, 'water conservancy and hydropower  engineering' as well as machinery design, 'manufacture and automation',  engineering cost and construction, and 'gem and material technology' (altogether  54 professional courses).

CIT's  two campuses – east and west of Changchun's South Lake Park – cover a total area  of 458 000 square meters, including 78 000 square meters of sporting  facilities.

CIT  has a Computer Training Center, an Engineering Training Center, a Numerical  Control Technology and Manufacturing Practice Facility, a Power System  Simulation practice Facility, a Civil Engineering Construction Practice  Facility, a Power Plant Simulation Facility, a Geotechnical Engineering and  Drilling Practice Facility, an Experimental Textile Facility, a Modern Business  Simulation Facility, and an Engineering Management Facility i.e. a total of 10  training facilities and centers, as well as 140 off-campus training facilities  at large and medium-sized enterprises.

CIT  was founded in 1951 and during following decades has welcomed close to 140 000  graduates in various fields and degrees. CIT alumni have left their mark in many  prestigious projects. CIT alumni achievements and participation: The Three  Gorges Dam, The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and other  large national infrastructure projects.

CIT  participates and focuses on a wide range of international cooperation and  exchange i.e. with the University of the West of Scotland of UK; Platov  South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) of Russia，the  New Mexico State University of USA，the  Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Spain，Komsomolsk-na-amure  State University，the  JADE University of Applied Sciences of Germany，California  State University at Chico of USA，Yonam  Institute of Technology of Korea，and  the Chaoyang University of Technology of Taiwan，the  Datong University of Taiwan,  the National Kaohsiung First University of Science  and Technology of Taiwan. CIT and the aforementioned institutions have  established exchange relations, carried out student exchanges as well as several  cooperation projects, exchanged experts and scholars and cooperated in  scientific research.

CIT  focuses on the cultivation of international talents and vigorously promotes  Sino-foreign education programs. There are currently three Sino-foreign programs  in civil engineering, machine design, and manufacturing, automation, as well as  energy and power engineering. CIT is happy to announce the successful  introduction of quality educational resources. CIT offers degrees and diplomas  for international students as well as Chinese language courses, undergraduate  courses, and graduate-level professional courses in the fields of wooden  construction engineering and water conservancy engineering. CIT has recruited  students from Pakistan, Kazakhstan, India, and Ethiopia. CIT is committed to  expanding its focus on international projects. CIT applied and was approved of  for the EU Erasmus International Project cooperating with 10 colleges and  universities in France, Germany, Italy, and Russia etc. CIT is supporting its  staff in continuously strengthening its overseas learning and training work in  order to further high-level international teaching. In the past five years, more  than 100 of CIT's teachers have been to the UK, the United States, Russia, South  Korea, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Canada, and  Taiwan. CIT has also conducted visits and exchanges with colleges and  universities abroad, furthering the exchange of knowledge.