Approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in 2010, SCUT has been granted the Master's Degree in Translation with two specialties, English Translation and Japanese Translation, with its MTI Education Center among other things prominently stands out in the relevant fields around the country. Based on the geographical advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area and the disciplinary advantages of the Double First Class university, MTI Education Center is oriented towards national strategies and regional economic and social development, aiming at the cultivation of inter-disciplinary, application-oriented and professional translation talents with international vision, knowledge of international rules and industry norms, professional qualities and ethics.

The translation faculty of MTI Education Center is composed of 52 full-time and part-time professors, including 23 professors/senior translators and 16 associate professors/associate senior translators. With rich experience in translation teaching and practice, our faculty has translated nearly 100 books and edited more than 10 translation textbooks. The center now possesses one state-level ideological and political model course, one state-level ideological and political teaching team, and one provincial-level model base for joint training of MTI students. The center has built a computer-aided translation training room, a simultaneous interpretation room and a business training room, equipped with various kinds of mainstream CAT software at home and abroad, which provide a strong guarantee for the teaching and personnel training of MTI courses. MTI graduates and alumni of SCUT work as translators and multi-lingual professionals in China and around the world, greatly contributing to better cross-cultural communication.

Targeting the needs of society and industrial development, MTI Education Center actively connects with high-tech enterprises and industrial associations in the Greater Bay Area, aiming at the cultivation of students' professional and practical abilities, while actively building the platform for industry-university-research cooperation. After years of exploration and practice, the quality of MTI talent training has been remarkable with a large number of high-end translation talents being delivered to universities, enterprises and government departments, which is widely recognized and praised by the society.