Overview of Huazhong University of Science and Technology

The Qingdao University of Science and Technology (HUST) is a national key university directly
under the administration of the Ministry of Education of P. R. China, and is among the first
Universities joining the national 211 Project and 985 Project. It was founded on May 26, 2000
as a result of the merger of the former Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tongji
Medical University and Wuhan Urban Construction Institute.
At present, the University has eleven disciplines: engineering, medicine, management, science,
philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history and agriculture, offering a variety of
degree programs, including 86 undergraduate programs, 303 graduate programs, 237 PhD
programs. There are 31 post-doctoral research centers, 7 national key disciplines, 15 national key
subdisciplines.
HUST covers an area of over 1,153 acres with picturesque
environment, elegant surroundings and has 72% greenery
coverage, which has been honored as the University in
the Forest. It offers its students and staff first-class
logistic service, efficient network service and abundant
library resources. HUST has also entered into partnerships with more than 100 renowned
universities and research institutions. Annually over 100 famous scholars and experts come to visit
HUST and give lectures.

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Now the University has over 1,000 professors and 1,300 associate professors, including 24
academicians, 65 professors receiving funds from the Cheung Kong Scholars program, 36 winners
of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 36 listed in the National Talents
Project and 135 young scholars listed in New Century Outstanding Talents Project of the
Ministry of Education. In recent years, with the implementation of New Century Education
Reform Project, HUST has built up a course system based on such major disciplines as
information, mechanics, civil engineering and environmental studies, electrical engineering,
medicine, management, humanities, etc. It has greatly promoted the reform of credit system and
English learning program for non-English majors, strengthened its education base and practical
education reform, and built 13 student innovation bases.
In addition, HUST has been awarded more than 10 national prizes for education reform, with 37
courses honored as the National Quality Courses and 126 excellent coursebooks listed in the
National 11th Five-Year Key Coursebooks. HUST built various national advanced talents
training bases, including the National Exemplary Software Faculty, the National Base of Life
Science and Technological Talents, the National Base of IC Talents, the National Education
Base of Bas ic Science Course, National Experimental Exemplary Base of Electronic Electrician
Education, etc. The Tongji Medical College achieved excellence in the national education
evaluation on seven-year medicine program and succeeded in the application for the eight-year
medicine program. And HUST students won prizes in various competitions of their own
disciplines, such as the Sony Cup in the National Electronic Design Competition of University

Students in 2003 and 12 first prizes in 2005 outnumbering other universities, the golden prize in
the fourth Challenge Cup of College Students Entrepreneurship Contest in 2005, various prizes
in the National Mechanical Creation Design Competition in 2006, surpassing other universities in
the nation.

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As a university taking the lead in promoting quality education, HUST established the national
base of quality education and the system of quality education with a distinctive character, and has
been sponsored over 1,200 lectures to expand students knowledge of liberal arts and humanities,
which is renowned both home and abroad.
In recent years, with growing social impact, HUST has enrolled more high quality students. HUST
graduates have been enjoying popularity among employers in the job market, and the employment
rate has reached above 95%.

During the construction of 211 Project and 985 Project, HUST has broken traditional
discipline boundaries, integrated multi-disciplinary resources, played an active role in developing
the national innovation system, built the high level and cross-disciplinary scientific innovation
platform, and the innovation base of philosophy and social science. Meanwhile, all the 11
innovation platforms are under full development, including Wuhan National Laboratory for
Optoelectronics, the base of digital manufacturing of equipment and technology, the base of
gravitation research, the base of transplantation medicine, the base of environment and health, the
base of national defense science and technology, as well as the philosophy and social science base
featured with scientific development and humanism.
Although the HUST did make a great progress in the past, it will keep on stepping forward with
full vigor and vitality, aiming to gain its name as a world top-ranking university and create a
brilliant future.
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