The university has an enrollment of over 14,000 full-time students, 96% of whom are undergrauates. and ther are 72 international students on campus. Now, the university consists of 19 academic departments with a total of 43 specialties with Bachelor’s Degree, including 5 specialties with national characteristics and 4 specialties implementing the Prominent Engineers Training Project.

Adhering to the orientation of “Regionalization, Application, and Internalization”, the philosophy of “ Cultivation-orientation, Moral Education First, as well as its motto of “Morality, Knowledge, Mind, Hand”, Hefei University commits to serving the regional economic and social development by means of improving the quality of education and talent cultivation, in particularly, strengthening students’s autonomous learning ability, sci-tech innovation ability, competence for social practice, and competitive power in job hunting.

In 1984, Anhui Province and Niedersachen ( a state of Germany) came to an agreement to co-build up Hefei United University as a Province-State Cultural Cooperation and Exchage Project. For 2 decades and more, Hefei University has been expanding international cooperation and exchange. having learneded a lot from the advanced educational philosophy of German University of Applied Sciences, Hefei University has found out a way of sustainable development for the application-oriented university in line with its own conditions, which has received favorable comments from the relevant authorities from the central to the provincial government. In 2009, the project A Study on the Application-oriented Talent Cultivation System of German Institute of higher learning and its Innovation and Practice took a second prize of the Sixth National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award.

So far, Hefei University has established cooperative relationships with 37 universities in Germany, Korea, Japan, the United America, Italy, Spain, Australia, Thailand and so on. There are more than 1,400 students studying abroad, in such  countries as Germany, Korea, Italy, and Spain. Anhui German Certre and Anhui Korea Certer are set up in Hefei University. Also, the College of International Education is established, and the Logistics Management Specialty cooperated with German is the first international cooperative program in Anhui Province approved by the Ministry of Education.