Located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan- the Land of Abundance, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is the most famous university on information technology under the direction of the National Ministry of Education. From 2001 on, UESTC has been selected as one of 39 universities heading for world-famous research-oriented universities.
UESTC was founded in 1956. Sixty years’ efforts and cultivations have witnessed the University’s process from sole dependence on electronic information engineering to all-around programs in electronic disciplines, and the University now turns out to be a key multidisciplinary university with electronic information science and technology as its nucleus, engineering as its major field, and incorporates science, management and liberal arts.
UESTC occupies a total area of 635 acres, including three campuses: Qingshuihe Shahe, Jiulidi. UESTC library boasts of a storage of 2.57 million books and digital recourses around 220TB. Besides, UESTC has kinds of sports facilities like outdoor playground, indoor gym, tennis court, swimming pool and so on.
UESTC has more than 3,800 faculty members. Among them over 2200 are full-time teachers, more than 550 are professors. UESTC has a current enrollment of 34,390 students, including 13,390 doctors and masters. There are over 1000 international students on campus currently, 666 of which are masters and doctors.
UESTC keeps close link with more than 200 universities, scientific research institutions and enterprises from over 67 countries and regions all over the world. Since 2010, UESTC has recruited approximately 2,200 international students from more than 100 countries, including undergraduate, master, doctoral, exchange and visiting students. The university organizes international academic conferences more than ten times annually. Besides, it often sends a large number of teachers abroad for further study, cooperation research and international conferences. The university has signed cooperation training agreements with such well-known foreign universities as UCB, UCLA, the Northwest University, Queen Marry of London University, etc. World-renown companies like Intel, Microsoft, TI and IBM have set up in this university joint -laboratories, research centers, scholarship projects, etc, and participate directly in the personnel training. The university positively introduces high quality educational talents from abroad participating in personnel cultivating, and established the joint school (School of UoG-UESTC Joint School) with university of Glasgow, the Confucius Institute with University of Montpellier, and some other cooperative programs as IMBA, UESTC-KTH Joint Master’s Programs on SoC with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and DBA with American and Portugal universities.
The university is to be built into a first-rate university with its leading status in the field of electronic information worldwide, a foundation of high and new tech as well as a base for the cultivation of innovative talents.
