Recently, ShanghaiRanking, a globally leading higher education evaluation institution, officially released the "2026 Best Chinese Vocational Colleges Ranking (BCVCR)". Dalian Maple Leaf College of Technology ranked 1st among private higher vocational colleges in Liaoning. Since the ranking was first released in 2023, the College has consecutively ranked 1st among private higher vocational colleges in Liaoning for four years. ShanghaiRanking is one of the most influential and authoritative higher education evaluation brands globally. Its "Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)", first released in 2003, has been adopted by multiple countries including the UK, France, Japan, and Russia as a standard for talent recruitment. World top-100 universities such as The University of Manchester and The University of Western Australia have listed improving their ARWU rankings as strategic objectives. The ShanghaiRanking series has long been covered by authoritative media including People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, and China Education Newspaper. Numerous overseas universities use the ShanghaiRanking Chinese University Rankings as a reference for admitting Chinese students. In 2023, ShanghaiRanking first released the Best Chinese Vocational Colleges Ranking (BCVCR), relying on the "360-Degree Data Monitoring Platform for Higher Vocational Colleges" to conduct stratified and categorized evaluations of over 1,400 higher vocational colleges in China. The 2026 ranking covers 307 private higher vocational colleges nationwide. Our College has consecutively ranked 1st among private higher vocational colleges in Liaoning for four years and entered the national top 100. A total of two private higher vocational colleges in the Northeast region made the list, with our College ranking first in the Northeast.
Educational Positioning: Keeping Pace with National Strategies, Building a Cutting-Edge Program Matrix
The College offers nearly 50 programs urgently needed by society and in high demand, establishing eight distinctive industry colleges. Its program settings precisely align with national strategies and emerging industries including national security and emergency response, cyberspace security, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, and the big health industry. The core program cluster has been rated as a provincial outstanding program cluster and a municipal high-level characteristic program cluster. Multiple programs were among the first to be launched nationwide, with program construction levels ranking among the top of similar institutions nationwide. The College also jointly develops curricula with leading platform enterprises, promoting the synchronous iteration of teaching content with industry frontiers, ensuring that talent cultivation always stays at the forefront of industrial needs.
Training Conditions: Real Project-Driven + High-Standard Platforms, Leading Practical Training Conditions in the Province
In the dimension of training conditions, the College has built a closed-loop education system of "stepping out of classrooms into factories, bringing problems back to classrooms". Students directly participate in real production orders and authentic business scenarios through on-campus industry colleges, honing their job competencies through hands-on practice. When encountering practical problems, they bring them back to the classroom, where faculty teams conduct targeted review and Q&A sessions, achieving full integration and mutual reinforcement of theory and practice. Guided by hosting national-level competitions and serving international major events, the College continuously tests and enhances students' comprehensive qualities through high-standard competitions and real-world practice. In terms of hardware support, the College operates a dual-campus layout with an enrollment of over 10,000 students. It has built high-standard teaching platforms including a provincial vocational skills training demonstration base, the first special operations AI examination center in the province, and Dalian's first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilot certification base, with practical training conditions fully aligned with frontline industry standards. Key industry colleges have invested tens of millions of yuan in building high-end practical training centers. The practical training bases integrate four major functional modules: teaching, training, assessment, and production, providing solid hardware guarantees for the cultivation of high-quality technical and skilled talents.
Faculty: Industry Experts + Dual-Mentor System, Mutual Empowerment Between School and Enterprise
The College deeply advances the full coverage of the "enterprise mentor + on-campus mentor" dual-mentor system, hiring frontline industry experts to deeply participate in curriculum design, practical training guidance, and the formulation of talent cultivation plans, injecting industry standards directly into the entire teaching process. Enterprise mentors bring in cutting-edge practical experience, while on-campus mentors are responsible for theoretical deepening and methodological construction, forming a teaching synergy mechanism of mutual empowerment between school and enterprise, and building a high-level teaching team with both theoretical literacy and industrial experience. At the same time, the College regularly conducts overseas training and international academic exchanges for faculty, continuously expanding the international vision and professional depth of the teaching team.
Moral Education: Red Bases Forging Souls, Integrating Patriotism into Growth
The College has built the largest museum of the history of the China Vocational Education Association (CVEA) in the country and an immersive Party building museum, integrating Huang Yanpei's vocational education thought and the spirit of craftsmanship in the new era into the entire process of moral education. The emergency rescue vanguard team regularly undertakes social rescue, safety drills, and science popularization publicity. It once represented universities nationwide in participating in the launching ceremony of the National Work Safety Month and received high recognition from State Council leaders. It assisted national competent authorities in producing a series of safety publicity content, cultivating students' sense of responsibility and professional mission on the front lines of social service.
Student Development: Leading Enterprise Order-Based Coverage, Honing Skills Through Competition-Promoted Teaching
The College has established deep collaboration with over 100 industry-leading enterprises. Each industry college has established "talent order classes". Students who pass the assessment are directly employed by leading enterprises. The program-specific employment rate in key colleges reaches as high as 95%. The cultivation mechanism of "joint enterprise construction, joint project cultivation, and joint employment guarantee" ensures that students are precisely aligned with industrial needs from enrollment to employment. The College has successively hosted the finals of national vocational skills competitions and provincial events of the WorldSkills Competition. Students have repeatedly achieved excellent results in national academic competitions, with the competition-promoted teaching cultivation model continuously stimulating students' professional potential and innovative vitality.
Serving Society: Professional Empowerment of the Region, Education Giving Back to People's Livelihood
The College deeply embeds social service into its educational system, annually undertaking vocational skills training and qualification certification for thousands of people, and opening senior universities and community health and wellness services to the public. The UAV team undertakes urban governance tasks such as forest fire prevention, power line inspection, and government inspection. It has successively served more than ten national and international major events including the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, and the Beijing Winter Olympics, testing professional strength through service and demonstrating educational responsibility through practice.
International Education: Four-Stage Progression, Building a Benchmark for Vocational Education Going Global
The College's international education has undergone continuous iteration through four stages and has fully entered the era of two-way empowerment, with a cooperation network covering over 60 countries along the Belt and Road. It has established a Royal Research Institute and a Digital Economy College in Cambodia, and launched a "Mozi Workshop" in Indonesia, promoting the cross-border export of Chinese vocational education standards through physical overseas platforms. It has established an AI Research Center in the United States, registered an Education and Medical Development Foundation in Hong Kong, and jointly built the World Education Exchange Conference with a national-level education foundation as one of the three parties, serving as the inaugural president unit. It has established long-term cooperation with world top universities such as the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. In collaboration with leading enterprises, it has built Chinese language and skills定向培养 (targeted training) programs, annually sending thousands of technical and skilled talents to developed countries, making it one of the largest skill-export talent bases in the country.
Looking Ahead
Consecutively ranking first among private higher vocational colleges in Liaoning for four years and topping the Northeast region, this achievement is both a reflection of educational strength and a validation of the cultivation model. In the future, the College will continue to deepen the integration of the education chain, talent chain, and industrial chain. With the eight industry colleges as the core support and international education as the window, it will continuously refine the six dimensions of moral education, educational positioning, faculty team, training conditions, student development, and social service, striving to build a domestic first-class and internationally renowned high-level higher vocational college, and continuously contributing to serving national strategies, regional industrial upgrading, and the reform and innovation of vocational education in the new era.
