The School of Computer and Big Data traces its origin back to the Department of Technical Engineering of Minjiang Vocational University founded in 1984. In September 2002, after the university was upgraded to a bachelor’s degree-granting institution, the Department of Computer Science was established. In June 2018, to meet the needs of disciplinary development, it was renamed the School of Computer and Control Engineering. In December 2023, to further optimize the disciplinary layout, the school merged and reorganized with the former School of Mathematics and Data Science (School of Software), officially establishing the School of Computer and Big Data.
The school has 112 faculty members, including 74 full-time teachers. Among full-time teachers, there are 51 teaching-and-research faculty, 52 PhD holders, and dual-qualified teachers account for 62%. The faculty comprises 15 professors, 31 associate professors and senior engineers, 4 doctoral supervisors and 56 master’s supervisors. The school boasts 1 national-level talent, 1 member of the Steering Committee for Software Engineering Education of the Ministry of Education, 1 member of the Expert Committee of the Ministry of Transport, 1 recipient of Fujian Provincial Hundred Talents Program, 3 awardees of Fujian Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project, 2 Minjiang Leading Education Talents, 24 Class A/B/C high-level talents, 1 Provincial Distinguished Teacher, 1 recipient of the Young Eagle Program, 2 awardees of the New Century Excellent Talents Support Plan for Fujian Universities, and 6 recipients of the Outstanding Young Scientific Research Cultivation Plan for Fujian Universities. In addition, the school flexibly engages Academician Lin Huimin from the Chinese Academy of Sciences as Chief Advisor and invites many professors from prestigious domestic universities to guide research teams.
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the school strives to build the Concentric Circle Party building brand and integrates Party leadership into the whole process of school governance. In the past five years, remarkable achievements have been made in Party building. The school was selected as a cultivation and construction unit of Fujian Provincial Benchmark School for Party Building Work and has passed the acceptance inspection. It hosts 1 national-level model Party branch, 2 provincial-level model Party branches and 1 Fujian Provincial Dual Leaders Teacher Party Branch Secretary Studio in higher education institutions. The school has won 39 municipal and above honors including Fujian Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, Fujian University Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, Fujian May 4th Youth Medal, and Fuzhou May Day Pioneer Unit. Its organizational education project was awarded the Fujian Provincial Excellent Ideological and Political Project for Universities.
Electronic Information discipline of the school is listed as the core discipline of Fujian’s high-quality application-oriented university construction initiative. The school successfully obtained the Professional Master’s Degree Authorization in Electronic Information in 2024 and has enrolled two cohorts of postgraduates, totalling 248 professional masters in Computer Technology and Artificial Intelligence. In terms of degree program incubation, the school has built the Fujian Provincial Incubation Base for Doctoral Program in Electronic Information, together with two master’s degree incubation programs in Computer Science and Technology and Intelligent Science and Technology, both of which have met the standards for master’s degree authorization application. Since 2017, the school has carried out in-depth cooperation with Fuzhou University, Fujian Normal University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and other universities, jointly training more than 130 postgraduates majoring in computer-related disciplines.
The school hosts a number of provincial key research platforms, including Fujian Key Laboratory of Information Processing and Intelligent Control, Digital Fujian IoT Laboratory for Intelligent Production, Joint R&D Center of New-generation Information Technology for Smart Marine Fishery and Intelligent Production, and Fujian Research Center for Human-Computer Interaction Technology in Mental Health. Focusing on cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and big data, it conducts in-depth research on application scenarios including engineering intelligence, marine informatization and smart healthcare. Catering to the intelligent transformation and upgrading demands of small and medium-sized enterprises in Fujian Province, the school provides solid intellectual and technical support driven by talent cultivation and technological innovation. Over the past five years, the school’s total research funding has exceeded 60 million RMB. It has undertaken 11 national projects, 68 provincial and ministerial projects, and more than 160 university-enterprise cooperation projects with a single project funding up to 5 million RMB. A total of 204 invention patents have been transferred. The school has led the formulation of 3 national standards and 2 industrial standards. Faculty teams have won 2 first prizes, 1 second prize and 2 third prizes of provincial and ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards.
The school vigorously promotes the integration of industry and education. It has jointly established the Minjiang University Artificial Intelligence Industry College (Provincial Demonstrative Modern Industry College) with 7 Specialized, Refined, Differential, Innovative and Technology Little Giant enterprises including Star-Net Ruijie, Zhongrui Networks, Yilian Kanghu and Huichuan Technology. Centering on key technologies of end-edge-cloud collaboration in artificial intelligence, the Industry College has developed the 3+X university-enterprise cooperation model and the project-driven applied talent training model, precisely meeting the industrial intelligent upgrading demands of the region and offering talent and intellectual support for the high-quality development of the digital economy.
The school offers four undergraduate programs: Computer Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Big Data Technology, and Software Engineering. Among them, Computer Science and Technology is approved as a National First-class Undergraduate Program. It holds the Professional Master’s Degree Authorization in Electronic Information (with Computer Technology and Artificial Intelligence concentrations), which has admitted two batches of postgraduates with a total of 248 students. There are 1,815 full-time students on campus. Taking the Dual-Drive & One-Traction talent training model as the core, the school has set up the Computer Experimental Class co-constructed by University of Science and Technology of China. In recent years, faculty have achieved fruitful teaching outcomes, winning 2 National Second Prizes of Teaching Achievement, 3 Provincial Special Prizes of Teaching Achievement, 2 Provincial Second Prizes of Teaching Achievement, and 7 Provincial First-class Undergraduate Courses.
The school attaches great importance to cultivating students’ innovation capacity. Since 2023, students have achieved outstanding results in discipline competitions, winning over 120 national awards. Highlights include the Grand Prize of the National Finals in the AI Main Arena of the 19th Challenge Cup National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition — China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Challenge & Take Tournament, the First Prize of the National Finals in the AIGC Practice Track of the 13th Future Designer National University Digital Art Design Competition, the Bronze Award of the 2024 China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, the First Prize of the National Finals in Software Application & Development of the 17th China College Computer Design Competition, and the First Prize of the 1st National Intelligent Operator Test Competition in 2026. Students have published 14 core journal papers and obtained 16 intellectual property rights. A total of 29 provincial and above college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training programs have been approved, including 12 national-level projects.