USTC, a University of National Recognition and Prestige
The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is a university affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences; it is one of the national key universities, which attaches importance on frontline science and new & high technology, and technological management and humanities learning and research. It was founded in Beijing in September 1958, and was transferred to Hefei in 1970, with Mr. Guo Moruo being the first president of the university. It is one of the nation¡¯s 9 universities that are heavily sponsored by the nation to be built into world first-class research universities.
At present, the university has 8 schools of different learning, 24 departments, a Youngster Class (educational reform experimental class), a postgraduate department, a software school, an adult continuing education institute. It co-founded the USTC Higher Research Institute with Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and set up postgraduate department Suzhou Branch and Shanghai Branch in Suzhou City and Shanghai City. The university also possesses three national basic science and research and teacher-cultivation bases, namely, mathematics, physics and mechanics, one national center for cultivating talents for life science and technology, 19 key studies of national level; it has national key laboratories such as Hefei National Synchronous Radiation Laboratory with Cylindrical Particle Accelerator, Hefei National Fire Disaster Laboratory, and has 16 science and technology organizations of national and provincial level. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale which is currently under construction.
The university has built up a complete educational system for granting bachelor¡¯s, master¡¯s and doctor¡¯s degrees. It offers 37 undergraduate programs, 109 programs are authorized to grant master¡¯s degree, 17 doctoral degree programs at the first level of learning, 93 doctoral degree programs at the second level of learning, and it offers profession-related masters degree programs in the field of business administration (MBA), public administration (MPA) and engineering. It also has 17 stations for postdoctoral research, and 48 branches of learning for postdoctoral studies. The university has built up a complete educational system of cultivating bachelors, masters, and doctors. At present, the university has 25 academicians granted by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, two academician granted by The Third World Academy of Sciences, 460 professors and 580 associate professors. In addition, some scientists of world prestige have been bestowed upon the title of honorary professor, honorary doctor or guest professor by the university for his/her dedicated service and professional distinction in those disciplines in which he/she has served with excellence, including Professor Chen Ning Yang, Professor Tsung-Dao Lee, and Professor Samuel Chao Chung Ting.
Vowing to stay at the leading edge of the world¡¯s scientific and technological developments, USTC is committed to the nation¡¯s significant science researches, increasing competitiveness and creating knowledge, inventing and discovering that aim to turn the commitment into actual practice and technological development.