Located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province and the largest city in central China, Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST) is a key public higher learning institution that operates under the auspices of Hubei Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education of PRC. It has been accredited as the key University to launch the Double First-Class Initiative of Hubei Province. It has been nominated by Ministry of Education of PRC as a National Exemplary University for Reform in Undergraduate Training for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and it is also recognized by Hubei Province as one of the first few Provincial Exemplary Bases for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 

The University dates back to Hubeigongyi xuetang (Hubei Technical School) founded in 1898 by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), viceroy of Huguang Province in China’s late Qing Dynasty. It began offering undergraduate degrees in 1957 upon the establishment of Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute, the University’s forerunner in the modern times. In 1978 and 1998, WUST was authorized by China’s State Council to confer its first master’s and doctoral degrees, respectively. In 1995 the institution was granted university status and renamed Wuhan Yejin (metallurgical) University of Science and Technology when Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute merged with two other colleges also based in Wuhan and existing under the then Ministry of Metallurgy of PRC. The University acquired its current name—Wuhan University of Science and Technology—in 1999 following its handover from China’s Ministry of Metallurgy to the local Hubei Provincial Government for administration.

WUST has three campuses distributed throughout Wuhan, including two in the vicinity of the Yangtze River and a lake, which has earned the University as an ecological garden. WUST’s campuses cover an area of about 1.71 million square meters (422 acres), including a floor space of over 1.29 million square meters (319 acres) for academic and administrative use. The University houses over 2.78 million volumes of books in two main libraries and their branches, a state-of–art information system, and modern facilities in support of the academic and research activities on campus.             

WUST claims traditional strengths in engineering and sciences, which are integrated with contemporary popular disciplines such as management, medicine, humanities, economics, law, philosophy, and art. For about 32, 200 full-time students (including over 24,000 undergraduates and about 8,200 postgraduates) hosted by 20 schools, 32 research centers and 1 hospital, WUST now offers a wealth of programs spanning across a broad range of disciplines. They include:

?    78 undergraduate programs

?    176 academic master’s degree programs

?    33 professional master’s degree programs in 18 areas

?    39 doctoral programs

?    8 post-doctorate programs.

Of all its disciplines, WUST has 4, i.e. Materials, Engineering, Chemistry and Clinical Medicine ranked top 1% globally by ESI. Its Materials Science and Engineering is also recognized as a national key discipline of minor category. This discipline, along with the Metallurgical and Mining Engineering discipline and the Mechanical Engineering discipline, are designated by Hubei Province for candidacy of first-class disciplines in China.  

Currently WUST is the employer of 2,700 including a faculty of over 1,900. Among the faculty there are:

?    5 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering serving WUST as distinguished professors of adjunct status;

?    1 Chinese-national member of the Russian Academy of Engineering;

?    21 scholars accredited Top Talents Project sponsored by the Central Government of China.

Thanks to involvement of outstanding international scholars, WUST’s Overseas Expertise Introduction Base for Marine Steel and Its Applications is accredited with the Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation sponsored by the Ministry of Education and State Administration for Foreign Experts, PRC. At the local level, WUST has 267 distinguished professors accredited with the Top Talents Project sponsored by the Hubei Provincial Government.

WUST attaches great importance to quality assurance in teaching. Testimonials of its excellence in teaching include the students’ continued job placement rate of 95% plus and the faculty’s attainment of 4 national teaching awards in recent years. This is further testified by our students’ quantities of awards. Examples of these honors include the Climbers’ world and national championships in FIFA Robo World Cup, the Red Dot Design awards, and the women’s basketball championships in CUBA, CUBS and the National College Sports Games.  

WUST features cutting-edge research in areas such as metallurgy, materials, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and control technology. It is the home of over 30 research centers accredited by the Central Government of China, Hubei Provincial Government, and Wuhan Municipal Government, including:

?    a state key laboratory (for refractory materials and metallurgy);

?    a state research center for engineering (for high-temperature materials and lining technology);

?    a key laboratory accredited by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (for Metallurgical Resources Utilization)

?    2 national university-industry collaborative innovation centers.

Since 2016 WUST faculty have undertaken 450 research projects sponsored by national research foundations of strategic importance. These projects have resulted in over 160 awards granted by governments at the national, or ministerial/provincial level. Our faculty’s most notable achievements are the 14 National Awards for Scientific and Technological Advancement and 5 National Awards for Technological Innovation, the highest research prizes in China recognized annually by the Central Government of China since 2007. 

In order to solve real-world problems, WUST has established strong linkages with the industry and the government. It engages over 30 large enterprises such as: China Baowu Steel, Evergrande, An Steel, Liu Steel, China First Metallurgical, WISDRI Engineering and Research, etc. A commendable outcome of this synergetic relationship is the birth of the WUST Baowu-Research Center for Engineering in Carbon Materials, WUST-Yixing Research Institute for Ceramic and Refractory Materials, and WUST Evergrande School of Management. The city governments in China that WUST partners include Yichang, Xiaogan, Huanggang, Suizhou in Hubei Province and Wuxi in Jiangsu Province, Zibo in Shandong Province and Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province, among others.

WUST is proud of its prominent contribution of an outstanding alumni body to China’s diversified walks of life, with the graduates’ job placement rate maintaining 95 per cent in the last five years. Many alumni assume leadership roles in academia, industry, business and government. Examples of outstanding WUST alumni include: members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, central and provincial government leaders, top entrepreneurs, leading members of the National Women’s Team, etc. Most remarkably, WUST has produced a galaxy of technology and management personnel including dozens of CEOs and chief engineers in the country’s 36 major iron and steel companies, for which WUST is rightfully reputed as “the cradle of high profile talents for China’s metallurgical industry.”

In the 1990s WUST emerged as a pioneer in international education in Hubei province when it ran the China-Australia Iron and Steel Training Center and the WUST-RMIT joint education program in international business. Today WUST is engaged in Study Abroad programs that provide pathways for students to further study in partner universities in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Japan, Singapore, Italy, South Korea, etc. Currently the University runs four international education programs with the approval of the Ministry of Education of PRC, namely:

?    BE in electronic information in partnership with University of Bridgeport, US;

?    BE in mechanical engineering in partnership with Deakin University, Australia;

?    BE in network engineering, in partnership with Birmingham City University, UK;

?    M.E. in Computer Science, in partnership with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

As well, WUST is a destination of almost 500 international students from various countries for pursuit of degree studies from bachelor’s to PhD.   

Albeit a leader in many fields, WUST never stops in pursuing its mission through excellence in education, research and service. Its faculty, staff, and students are committed to advancing knowledge in engineering, sciences, and humanities for addressing contemporary issues in the local region, country-wide and the world over.

 

Schools and colleges at WUST

?    Materials and Metallurgy

?    Mechanical Engineering

?    Computer Science and Technology

?    Chemical Engineering and Technology

?    Information Science and Engineering

?    Resources and Environment Engineering

?    Automobile and Traffic Engineering

?    Urban Construction

?    Art and Design

?    Management

?    Sciences

?    Medicine

?    Life Science and Health

?    Literature, Law and Economics

?    Foreign Languages

?    International Education

?    Continuing Education

?    Vocational and Technical Education

?    Sports Education

?    Independent Schools (City College; College for Foreign Languages and Foreign Affairs)

 

 

(updated as of November 2, 2022)

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