AHUT is among the 'First batch of National Model Universities of Deepening the Reform of Innovative Entrepreneurship', 'Top 50 Universities modelling in Innovative Entrepreneurship Practices', 'Member of Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program of Ministry of Education (MOE) of China' and 'Anhui High-level University with Local Characteristics'. Materials Science, Engineering and Chemistry have been ranked among ESI 1%. 10 scholars of AHUT have been featured among world’s Top 2% scientists list created by Stanford University. In the "2021 Shanghai Ranking's Academic Ranking of World Universities", AHUT was listed as one of the top 1000 for the first time. In the past three years, in the annual "Highly Cited Scientists" list released by Clarivate Analytics, 6 AHUT experts from 3 disciplines have been selected, ranking first among provincial universities. Since 2016, AHUT students have won 96 international awards, 1,304 national awards, and 3,165 provincial awards in various discipline competitions, including the first national special prize of the "Challenge Cup" scientific and technological competition in provincial universities, the first national "Winning Cup", the "four consecutive championships" of the Robot World Cup China, and the gold medal in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition.
Up to now, AHUT has officially established cooperative relations with nearly 100 foreign universities, undertaken a number of international research cooperation projects, and has been approved to set up ISO-TC107/SC9PVD International Standards Sub-Committee. AHUT joined the "Belt and Road" University-Enterprise Alliance for Talent Training and obtained the qualification of the Chinese Proficiency Test Institution of the Sino-foreign Language Exchange Cooperation Center, and successfully passed the quality certification of international education by the Ministry of Education.