长沙理工大学是一所以工为主，工、理、管、经、文、法、哲、艺等多学科协调发展，以本科教育为主体，具有博士后科研流动站、博士学位授予权和硕士生推免权的多科性大学，是国家“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”高校、国家“特色重点学科项目”建设高校、教育部“卓越工程师教育培养计划”实施高校、湖南省“国内一流大学建设高校”（A类）。

Changsha University of Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary university with engineering as its main focus, coordinated development of engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law, philosophy, art and other disciplines. It takes undergraduate education as its main body, and has a post-doctoral research station, doctoral degree authorization and master's recommendation rights. It is a university under the "Midwest University Basic Capacity Construction Project", a university under the "Characteristic Key Discipline Project", an implementation university of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, and a "domestic first-class university construction university" (Class A) in Hunan Province.

学校拥有金盆岭、云塘两个校区，校园占地面积2980亩，校舍总建筑面积140余万平方米。图书馆纸本藏书360余万册，电子图书960余万册，中外文献数据库116个，拥有现代化的教学科研仪器设备总值6.5亿元。学校现有全日制在校本科生30000余人，博士、硕士研究生8000余人，留学生近200人。

The university has two campuses, Jinpenling and Yuntang, covering an area of 2980 mu, with a total building area of more than 1.4 million square meters. The library has more than 3.6 million paper books, more than 9.6 million e-books, 116 Chinese and foreign literature databases, and the total value of modern teaching and research instruments and equipment is 650 million yuan. At present, the university has more than 30,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 8,000 doctoral and master students, and nearly 200 international students.