University of Science And Technology of China

USTC was established in Beijing in September 1958, moved to Hefei City, the capital city of Anhui province, in the early 1970’s, and set up the first graduate school in China in 1978 to effectively cultivate its postgraduate students. Since its very beginning, CAS has adopted a policy of "running the university with resources of the entire CAS and integrating each of its departments with relevant CAS research institutes." It has been one of the first institutions included in China's "985 Program" and "Project 211", and the only university participating in the National Program for Knowledge Innovation. It is one of the C9 League, an association of nine top Chinese universities.

USTC now has 15 schools, 30 departments and 2 institutes in Shanghai and Suzhou. It has 8 national key programs of first-level disciplines: mathematics, physics, chemistry, geophysics, biology, history of science and technology, mechanics, etc., 4 national key programs of second-level disciplines, 2 programs with major national support, and 18 programs with major provincial and ministerial support. It has 45 national-level and CAS/provincial/ ministerial-level laboratories and research centers, including the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, the National Key Laboratory of Fire Science.

USTC has 1,572 faculty members, of whom 42 are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering （CAE）, 14 academicians of the Third World Academy of Sciences, 551 professors and 643 associate professors. Of its 15,500 plus students, over 1,900 are doctoral students, over 6,200 are masters students, and more than 7,400 are undergraduate students. From 2000, USTC had joined Chinese Government Scholarship Programs （CGSP）. Now there’re 238 international students from 40 countries.