Independent institute is a novel kind of high education which developed rapidly in the recent years due to its characteristic of self-establishment education system

flexible adjustment to the society and market

and paying more attention on the employment of the graduates.Specialty construction is foundation of teaching construction for higher education.In the recent years

practice and exploration from four aspects of increasing hardware devotion

streng thening teacher procession

optimizing cultivate scheme

modifying practice teaching system were performed the polymer material and engineering specility of Ningbo Institute of Technology

Zhejiang University

and made this specialty to achieve some scale and become a key speciality of Ningbo city.The rate of employment keeps at a high level of over 90% since its first graduates at 2006.Several suggestions

e.g. strengthening the teaching materials

establishing professional website teaching system

increasing students practical training

cultivating the spirit of innovation

cultivating double-qualified teachers

and set the master's degree or doctorate degree unit

are proposed for the further the speciality construction of polymer materials and engineering in the independent institutes .