The goal of personnel training is to fully implement the party's educational policy, follow the laws of higher education and personnel training, adhere to the school motto of "erudite, pragmatic, correct and innovative", and adhere to the educational concept of "moral education first, knowledge-based, ability-based and all-round development".

School-running philosophy:

Based on the new era, the school will inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of running a school, implement the strategy of "building a school by quality, developing the school by disciplines, strengthening the school by talents, and managing the school according to law", adhere to the principles of educating people-oriented, talent gathering, cross-innovation, service integration, and cultural guidance, and strive to build an important place for cultivating talents with Hunan characteristics, an important base for scientific and technological innovation, a highland where first-class innovative talents gather in Hunan, and the forefront of the inheritance and dissemination of advanced culture.

Actively promote the construction of "double first-class" and comprehensively improve the quality of running schools and the level of educating people. Cultivate high-quality compound professionals with bright background, strong practice, affection and courage to take responsibility, realize characteristic development, innovative development, coordinated development and common development, and finally build "Top 100" universities into innovative high-level universities.

Teaching achievements:

There are 86 undergraduate majors in the school, including 43 national first-class undergraduate majors, 9 national characteristic majors, 4 national engineering education professional certification majors/kloc-0, and 3 Chinese-foreign cooperative education projects. There are 3 national and provincial teaching teams, 7 national first-class undergraduate courses 17, 88 provincial first-class undergraduate courses and 3 national and provincial ideological and political demonstration courses.

There are 12 national practical teaching platforms and 65 provincial practical teaching and innovative education platforms. The school is the pilot school of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" and the implementation school of "Innovative Experiment Plan for College Students" by the Ministry of Education.

In the past five years, the school has won more than 58 provincial teaching achievement awards; Students have won more than 1 100 national awards for various disciplines and scientific and technological achievements, and more than 2,700 provincial awards for disciplines and scientific and technological achievements. 2022 National University Student Competition Ranking (Undergraduate) 13.