Universities
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is a Chinese national key university in Chengdu, Sichuan, and a Class A Double First Class University directly under the Ministry of Education. UESTC was included as one of the first universities into “Project 211” in 1997, and then the nation’s “Project 985” in 2001.
After more than sixty years of development, UESTC now has evolved into a key multidisciplinary university covering all-around programs in electronic disciplines with electronic science and technology as its nucleus, engineering as its major field and a harmonious integration of science, engineering, management, liberal arts and medical science.
In 1956, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, the inception of Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering ushered in the first higher education institution of electronic and information science and technology of China. CIRE was then created from the combination of electronics-allied divisions of three well-established universities: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Southeast University (then Nanjing Institute of Technology) and South China University of Technology. As early as the 1960s, it was ranked as one of the nation’s Key Higher Education Institutions. In 1997, UESTC was included in the first group of universities in the “Project 211”, a national program for advancing China’s higher education. In September 2001, UESTC was selected as one of the 39 research-intensive universities in China that gain special funding under “Project 985” for developing into world-class universities.
Today, UESTC has developed into a multidisciplinary university directly reporting to the Ministry of Education, which has electronic information science and technology as its nucleus, science and engineering as its major field, and incorporates management, economics, medicine and liberal arts. UESTC has more than 3,000 faculty members, of whom 8 are academicians of CAS & CAE, 325 full professors and 483 associate professors, 21 IEEE Fellows, 121 “Thousand Talents Program” recipients and 15 Elsevier highly cited scholars. It has an enrollment of 33,000 students, including 12,000 graduate students.
Built on the Stanford model and as a member of both “Project 985” and “Project 211”, UESTC is an electronics-centered multidisciplinary leading research university, covering all of the 6 National Key Disciplines categorized for higher education in electronic and information science and technology in China and a broad range of subjects:
- School of Information and Communication Engineering
- School of Electronic Science and Engineering (Demonstration School of Microelectronics)
- School of Materials and Energy
- School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering
- School of Automation Engineering
- School of Resources and Environment
- School of Computer Science and Engineering (School of Cyberspace Security)
- School of Information and Software Engineering (Demonstration School of Software)
- School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- School of Physics
- School of Medicine (Est. jointly with Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital in 2013)
- School of Life Science and Technology
- School of Economics and Management
- School of Public Administration
- School of Foreign Languages
- School of Marxism
- Glasgow College (Undergraduate BEng (Honours) Programme in Electronics and Electrical Engineering)
- Sports Department
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences
- National Key Laboratory Science and Technology on Communication
- Yingcai Honors College
- Chengdu College of UESTC
- Zhongshan Institute of UESTC
