It has been selected into the "excellent engineer education and training program" of the Ministry of Education, "national new engineering research and practice project", Chinese government scholarship institutions for overseas students in China, hundred school projects Liaoning provincial credit system management pilot University and Liaoning Provincial transformation and development pilot school, with the right to promote graduate students and the National University Science and Technology Park, is a multidisciplinary university focusing on engineering, covering engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, art, and other disciplines.
In 2006, it was renamed Liaoning University of science and technology, and became the doctoral degree awarding unit in the same year.
The software engineering field ranks top 60 to 80 in China according to the Ministry of Education evaluation.
[1] In 1958, the university was established as Anshan Institute of Iron and Steel Technology (AIIST) and placed under the administration of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry of the Chinese central government.
In 1998, the oversight of AIIST was transferred from Ministry of Metallurgical Industry to the government of Liaoning Province.