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The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is the only university affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Boasting as one of the national key comprehensive universities of sciences, engineering, management science and liberal arts, the university was founded in Beijing in September, 1958 under the presidential leadership of Dr. Guo Moruo, the first president of CAS. Those most famous scientists at time in natural sciences, such as Qian Xuesen, Hua Luogeng and Bei Shizhang, held concurrent posts of Vice-Presidents or deans in USTC. Its foundation was praised as a "significant event in China's history of education and science". USTC has graduate schools in Hefei. In Hefei, the university founded with CAS (Hefei Branch) the USTC Graduate School (Hefei). The main campus of USTC (Hefei) has ten schools, 24 departments and the Special Class for the Gifted Young. The university confers 40 undergraduate disciplines, 59 Master's degree-granting programs and 39 doctoral degree-granting programs. It is an important cultivation base for doctoral students' education of CAS. USTC (Hefei) has an enrollment of over 17000 students, including 744 Ph. D. students, 1600 Master's students, 7264 undergraduate students, 710 professional training students and approximately 7400 students enrolled in the College of Continuing Education (6400 degree students and 1000 non-degree). The University consistently maintains the freshman enrollment with the highest average scores in the College Entrance Examination and the outstanding comprehensive quality of students in China since 1977. USTC (Hefei) covers a total area of about 1,370,000 square meters (2055 mu), with a constructed area of over 50,000 square meters. Over 1.36 million copies of various books and documents are available in the university library. Computer network in USTC can be called first-level in China. |
