University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
电子科技大学
UESTC xiaohui.png
Motto求实求真 大气大为
Motto in English
To seek facts and truth, to be noble and ambitious
Type Public university
Established1956;69 years ago (1956)
President Jun Hu
Party Secretary Ping Cao
Academic staff
3,800
Students40,000 [1]
Undergraduates 23,000
Postgraduates 15,000
Location
Chengdu
,
Sichuan
,
China

30°45′03″N103°55′48″E / 30.750724556157014°N 103.93011689054471°E / 30.750724556157014; 103.93011689054471
CampusQingshuihe
Shahe
Jiulidi
Yongning
Colors   Dark Blue
  Yellow Ginkgo
AffiliationsMinistry of Education, Double First-Class Construction, 211 Project, 985 Project, AMBA
Website uestc.edu.cn
en.uestc.edu.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 电子科技大学
Traditional Chinese 電子科技大學
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Diànzǐ Kējì Dàxué
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is a public university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Founded in 1956 by the instruction of then Premier Zhou Enlai, the university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. It is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Sichuan Provincial Government, and the Chengdu Municipal Government. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.

Contents

UESTC was established on the basis of the incorporation of electronics divisions of then three universities including Jiaotong University (now Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Xi'an Jiaotong University), Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), and South China Institute of Technology (now South China University of Technology). Now UESTC is a multidisciplinary research university with electronic science and technology as its nucleus, engineering as its major field, and featured with management, liberal art and medicine. [2]

UESTC is consisted of four campuses: Qingshuihe, Shahe, Jiulidi, and Yongning, with a gross built-up area of 1,490 km2 (370,000 acres) . It has more than 40 schools and 65 undergraduate majors (13 of them are national-level featured majors). In 2022, UESTC has more than 42,000 students and 3,800 faculties.

History

In 1956 summer, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, the inception of Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering (CIRE) [3] 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, which represents the importance of this university. In 1988, CIRE was renamed University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). In 1997, UESTC was selected as one of the top 100 key universities by the "State's Education Revival Project" (Project 211). In 2000, UESTC was transferred to the MoE-university system, hence a national key university directly affiliated to the State's Ministry of Education. In 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. In 2007, the new campus Qingshuihe was put into use. In 2017, UESTC has been included in the state Double First Class University Plan as a Class A Double First Class University.

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 3,800 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. [4]

Academic Schools

Built on the Stanford Model and as a member of both the "Project 985" and the "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. [5] In 1984 and 2018, many of the schools are reorganized.

Academics and Rankings

China Discipline Evaluation by the Ministry of Education of China

The China Discipline Evaluation (CDE) is the official assessment of the quality of disciplines (grouped into 14 domains and 113 first-level disciplines) in China and is one of the most important rankings for Chinese universities. The CDE is conducted every ~5 years starting in 2002. Ranking rule of the fourth CDE: A+ is among the top 2%, A is 2%-5%, A− is 5%-10%, B+ is 10%-20%, B is 20%-30%, B− is 30%-40%, C+ is 40%-50%, C is 50%-60%, and C− is 60%-70%. [6] [7] Previous CDEs are evaluated by a score of 0-100.

DisciplineRank (2017)Rank (2012)Rank (2007)Rank (2004)
Electronic Science and Technology1st (A+)1st (92)2nd (93)3rd (84.7)
Information and Communication Engineering1st (A+)2nd (87)5th (88)8th (80.0)
Computer Science and Engineering5th (A)12th (76)19th (74)20th (69.1)
Optical Engineering5th (A−)5th (81)10th (76)18th (66.8)
Instrumentation Science and Technology8th (A−)7th (78)-18th (71.0)
Biomedical Engineering8th (B+)10th (77)12th (71)14th (64.7)
Software Engineering17th (B+)34th (70)--
Management Science and Engineering19th (B+)-24th (72)30th (65.7)
Business Administration25th (B+)17th (78)--
Mechanical Engineering38th (B)--35th (63.2)
Material Science and Engineering35th (B)--37th (66.3)
Control Science and Engineering33rd (B)--24th (66.2)
Public Administration29th (B)---
Electrical Engineering44th (C)---
Chemical Engineering and Technology87th (C−)---
Applied Economics---30th (65.0)
Politics---23rd (64.4)
Foreign Language and Literature---25th (62.1)
Physics---26th (67.3)

General Rankings

University rankings
BCUR National [8] Domestic 33
Wu Shulian National [9] Domestic 30
CUAA National [10] Alumni 31
QS National [11] General 36
THE National [12] General 25–28
QS Asia
(Asia version) [13] 		General 217
THE Asia
(Asia version) [14] 		General 63
ARWU World [15] Research 151–200
QS World [16] General =519
THE World [17] General 301–350
USNWR World [18] General =137

According to College and university rankings, ARWU, QS, and THE are three most established and influential global rankings.

Global Rankings
Board202620252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
ARWU 151-200101-150151-200151-200151-200151-200201-300201-300301-400
QS 519451486561-570591-600701-750751-800
US News 137153231272342507555597584572
THE 301-350351-400401-500501-600501-600601-800n/a801-1000801+601-800
CWUR 233276319346381438484710783783790
NTUR 133180236184200280372440
RUR 247220250414476567611631523
URAP 85103129153166191264

National Rankings

National Rankings
Board20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006200520042003
ARWU 22-2311-2314-2611-2414-229-1713-2310-1819-31
Best Chinese Universities Ranking by ARWU31283031322733343635
Alumni Association China University

(校友会中国大学排名)

3129303033343734293737424547474949504939463746
Wushulian (武书连)303033343636393737394040383940374348


National Key Disciplines

Research Strength

State Key Laboratories

University Research Centers

Students

National Electronic Designing Contest: Top scoring team since 2005

The Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon)

Mathematical Modeling Contest

International Genetic Engineering Machine Competition, iGEM

International collaboration

International Cooperation

UESTC has collaborative and solid relationships with over 200 universities and research institutes in 67 countries, as reflected in visits for academic purposes, joint research and joint application of research projects, joint academic conferences and workshops, joint supervisions of Master and Ph.D. degrees and student exchange programs. There are over 1000 students from 67 countries study for bachelor, master and Ph.D degrees in UESTC as well as over 500 short term international students in UESTC every year.

Joint Education Projects authorized by the MOE

  1. International MBA Joint Program by UESTC and Webster University (USA, 2003)
  2. DBA Joint Program by UESTC and ISCTE (Portugal, 2009)
  3. AF-Chengdu: UESTC-Alliance Française Joint Center of French Training (2003)
  4. Glasgow College, UESTC (with University of Glasgow, UK, 2013)
  5. UESTC - University of Montpellier Confucius Institute (France, 2013)
  6. UESTC - KTH Joint Master's Programs on SoC (Sweden, 2016)

Campus

UESTC now has three main campuses in Chengdu—Qingshuihe, Shahe and Jiulidi, occupying a total of 16.6 km² (4100 acres). There are many affiliated institutes outside of Chengdu. [20]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "学校简介 - 电子科技大学 Uestc".
  2. ↑ "Introduction to the University". Homepage of UESTC. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "About page-oice.uestc". faculty-en.uestc.edu.cn. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  4. ↑ "电子科技大学".
  5. ↑ "University of Electronic Science and Technology of China". en.uestc.edu.cn (in English and Chinese). Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "全国第四轮学科评估".[ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "China Discipline Evaluation".
  8. ↑ "2025 Best Chinese Universities Ranking". Shanghai Ranking. 2025. Retrieved April 17, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Wu Shulian 2025 China University Evaluation". Chinese Academy of Management Science. 2025. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  10. ↑ Chinese Universities Alumni Association (2025). "Alumni Association (22nd Edition): Chinese University Rankings 2025" . Retrieved January 7, 2025. Alternative URL
  11. ↑ "QS University Rankings 2026 - China (Mainland)". Top Universities. 2026. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  12. ↑ "THE University Rankings 2025 - China". Times Higher Education (THE). 2025. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  13. ↑ "QS World University Rankings: Asia 2025". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2025. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Asia University Rankings 2025". Times Higher Education. 2025. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Academic Ranking of World Universities". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  16. ↑ "QS World University Rankings". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2026. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  17. ↑ "THE World University Rankings". Times Higher Education. 2025. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  18. ↑ U.S. News & World Report (2025). "2025-2026 Best Global Universities Rankings" . Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  19. ↑ "Key Disciplines". UESTC. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  20. ↑ "教学科研单位、研究机构". 2024-06-05.
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