University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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Built on the MIT model and as a member of "Project 985Project 985
Project 985 is a project first announced by CPC General secretary and Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the 100th anniversary of Peking University on May 4, 1998 to promote the development and reputation of the Chinese higher education system...
", UESTC is an electronics-centred multidisciplinary leading research university located in Chengdu
Chengdu
Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...
China, currently enrolling over 10,000 research students and about 14,000 undergraduates in 14 academic Schools:
- School of Automation Engineering
- School of Communication and Information Engineering
- School of Computer Science and Engineering (including an affiliated School of Software)
- School of Electronic Engineering
- School of Life Science and Technology
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- School of Mechatronics Engineering
- School of Micro- and Solid-State Electronics
- School of Optoelectronics
- School of Physical Electronics
which cover all of the 6 National Key Disciplines
National Key Disciplines
National Key Disciplines is a list of key disciplines currently recognized as important and receiving support by the central government of the People's Republic of China...
specified for higher education in electronic and information science and technology in China, with multidisciplinary extensions and enhancements including Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences, a Business School
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
comprising:
- School of Economics, Finance and Management
- School of Political Science and Public Administration
and a
- School of Foreign Languages
plus a
- School for International Education
which is an international college dedicated to facilitating international and trans-national education. In addition, there is a cross-disciplinary research institute:
- Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology.
Academic standing
The most recent official ranking made by Ministry of Education (based on input-output performance), which was published in the "People's Daily", ranked UESTC the 5th among the 39 "Project 985" Universities, surpassing Fudan, Tianjin, Xi'an Jiaotong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sichuan, Shanghai Jiaotong, Sun Yat-sen and Nankai .UESTC is the only higher-education institution in China that covers all 6 National Key Disciplines in electronic and information science and technology. It also has 22 Ministerial or Provincial Key Disciplines, 4 National Key Labs and 39 Ministerial or Provincial Key Labs. UESTC offers 36 MoE-authorized subject areas for a Ph.D. It achieved 43 National Awards in science, over 600 ministerial or provincial awards, about 500 patents and 20,000 scientific papers and books during the past decade. Research funding reached RMB 510 million (2007).
International collaboration
UESTC currently has co-training agreements in place with over 40 overseas institutions, such as Purdue UniversityPurdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
, University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
and University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
in the World Top 100 University League. At various levels, UESTC collaborates with more than 300 overseas institutions and multi-national companies . There are over 1,000 overseas companies collocated with UESTC in Chengdu, including over 100 Fortune 500's, such as 3M, Dell, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, National Semi, Onsemi, ABB, Acatel, BAT, BHP, Ericsson, GSK, KLM, Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Shell, Canon, NEC, Samsung, Toyota, etc.
About UESTC
Located in Chengdu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), formerly Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering (CIRE), is reputed to be “the cradle of China’s national electronic industry”. (ChineseChinese character
Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...
: 电子科技大学)
In 1956, under the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, the inception of Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering ushered in the first higher education institution of electronic and information science and technology of China. CIRE was then created from the combination of electronics-allied divisions of three well-established universities: Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southeast University
Southeast University
Southeast University , colloquially Dongda is a public, coeducational research university located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China....
(the then Nanjing Institute of Technology) and South China University of Technology
South China University of Technology
South China University of Technology is a Chinese university located in Guangzhou, capital of the Guangdong province. In 1999, SCUT ranked No...
. As early as the 1960s, it was ranked as one of the nation's Key Higher Education Institutions. In 1997, UESTC was included in the first group of universities in the “211 Project”, a national program for advancing China's higher education. In September 2001, UESTC was selected as one of the 39 elite research-intensive universities in China that gain special funding under "Project 985
Project 985
Project 985 is a project first announced by CPC General secretary and Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the 100th anniversary of Peking University on May 4, 1998 to promote the development and reputation of the Chinese higher education system...
".
Today, UESTC has developed into a multidisciplinary university directly reporting to the Ministry of Education, which has electronic information science and technology as its nucleus, engineering as its major field, and incorporates nature science, management, economics and liberal arts. UESTC has more than 3,000 faculty members, of whom 7 are academicians of CAS & CAE, 196 Ph.D. advisors, 325 full professors and 483 associate professors. It has a current enrollment of 26,000 students, including about 10,000 Ph.D. and M.S. candidates. Since its foundation in 1956, UESTC has trained more than 100,000 graduates.
Campus
UESTC has two campuses, occupying 2.67 km2 (about 660 acres). The new campus has 25,000 sets of equipment with a library of over three million volumes, and the largest gymnasium in an Asian university.Vision of UESTC
“ …to develop UESTC into the headstream of hi-tech and the base of fostering talents with creativity; to run UESTC into a global university featured in electronic and information science.”Recruitments and graduates
UESTC's students come from all over China and internationally. Its graduates:jobs ratio is sustained at between 1:8 and 1:9 in the Chinese jobs market.While a high proportion of UESTC graduates stay on to do research for a Master's degree, about 30% of the graduates are recruited to Pearl River Delta
Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta , Zhujiang Delta or Zhusanjiao in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea...
, the fast growing consumer electronics design and manufacturing centre of China. Similarly, a high proportion of UESTC Master's graduates stay on to do a PhD, about 12% of the Masters are recruited to Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...
alone, and 8.3% are recruited to Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
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International education
★ Degree Programs| Bachelor |
|---|
•Communication •Engineering Network Engineering •Information Engineering •Electronic Information Engineering •Information Antagonizing Technique •Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology •Radio Wave Propagation and Antenna •Electronic Science & Technology (Solid-State Engineering) •Electronic Science & Technology (Microelectronic Technology) •Integrated Circuits Design & Integrated Systems •Microelectronic Science •Applied Chemistry (including Nano-meter Electronic Materials) •Electronic and Information Science and Technology •Applied Physics •Vacuum Electronic Technology •Electronic Science and Technology (Physical Electronic Technology) •Electronic Science and Technology (Opto-Electronic Engineering and Optical Communication) •Optical Information Science and Technology •Information Display and Opto-Electronic Technology •Computers Science and Technology •Information Security •Measuring and Testing Technology & Instruments •Automation •Environment Engineering •Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation •Electric Engineering and Automation •Industrial Engineering •Biomedical Engineering •Biotechnology •Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (including application of computer) •Information and Computation Science •Management-Electronic Engineering •Jurisprudence •Public Administration •Information Management and Information System •English Language •Japanese language •Software Engineering |
| Master |
|---|
•Information and Communication Engineering •Electronic Science and Technology •Materials Science and Engineering •Mathematics •Regional Economics •Finance •Econometrics •Constitutional Jurisprudence and Administrative law •International Politics •Basic Theory of Marxism •Ideological and Theoretical Education •Applied Psychology •English Language and Literature •Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics •Communicology •Computational Mathematics •Applied Mathematics •Operational Research and Control Theory •Plasma Physics •Condensed Matter Physics •Optics •Radio Physics •Biochemistry and Molecular Biology •Biophysics •Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation •Electric Engineering and Automation •Mechanical Design and Theory •Optical Engineering •Precision Instruments and Mechanics •Test Measurement Technology and Instrument •Electronic Electricity and Electric Transmission •Physical Electronic Technology •Circuit and System •Micro-electronics and Solid State Electronics •Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology •Electronic Information Materials and Components •Communication and Information System •Signal and Information Processing •Information Acquisition and Detection Technology •Information Security •Control Theory and Control Engineering •Detection Technology and Automatic Equipment •Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems •Computer System Structure •Computer Software and Theory •Computer Application Technology •Software Engineering •Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering •Applied Chemistry •Biomedical Engineering •Cryptography •Management Science and Engineering •Information Management and E-commerce •Emerging Technology Management •Financial Engineering •Enterprise Management •Technological Economy and Management •Public Administration |
| PHD |
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•Information and Communication Engineering •Electronic Science and Technology •Material Science and Engineering •Ideological and Theoretical Education •Applied Mathematics •Plasma Physics •Condensed Matter Physics •Optics •Radio Physics •Mechatronics Engineering •Optical Engineering •Test Measurement Technology and Instrument •Physical Electronic Technology •Circuit and System •Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics •Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology •Electronic Information Materials and Components •Information Security •Testing Technology and Automatic Equipment •Computer System Structure •Computer Software and Theory •Computer Application Technology •Biomedical Engineering •Management Science and Engineering •Emerging Technology Management •Information Management and E-commerce •Financial Engineering |
★ Tuition for Foreign Students (Unit RMB)
Fees | Category | Term and Majors | RMB |
Registration | All Applicants | ￥400 | |
Tuition Fee | Chinese Training Program | ￥14,000/year | |
Bachelor Degree Program | Liberal Arts, Business. | ￥14,000/year | |
Sci., Eng. | ￥20,000/year | ||
Master Degree Program, Visiting Scholar | Liberal Arts, Business. | ￥17,000/year | |
Sci., Eng. | ￥24,000/ year | ||
Doctoral Program, Senior Visiting Scholar | Liberal Arts, Business. | ￥22,000/year | |
Sci., Eng. | ￥37,000/year |
★Accommodation
| Dorm Building | Prices | |||
| Foreign Students Dorm | Less than 30 days study program | More than 30 days study program | ||
| Single Room | 70RMB/day | Paid all the fee for water, gas and electricity | 40RMB/day | Free for water and electricity (limited amount) |
| Double Room | 35RMB/day | Paid all the fee for water, gas and electricity | 20 RMB/day | Free for water and electricity (limited amount) |
• Other Expenditure（living cost）: about 800 RMB/month
★Admission Categories and Entry Requirements
| Admission Categories | Entry Requirements | Study Period |
| Chinese training | High school diploma or above; age range from 18 to 65; healthy | 0.5-1 year |
| Bachelor | High school diploma or above; age range from 18 to 30; healthy; HSK qualification (HSK 6 or equivalent for liberal arts ；HSK 3 for engineering and business) | 4–6 years |
| Master | Bachelor degree; two recommendation letters from persons with professional title of associate professor or above; healthy; HSK qualification，(HSK 7 or equivalent for liberal arts ；HSK 4 for engineering and business); age range from 18 to 40 | 2.5–3 years |
| PHD | Master degree; two recommendation letters from persons with professional title of Associate Professor or above; in good health; under 45 years old. | 3-4 Years |
★Contact Information
Address: Main Building Mid-144, School of International Education, UESTC
No.4, 2nd Section, North Jianshe Road, Chengdu, P. R. China
Post code: 610054
Phone: 86-28- 83200203
Fax: 86-28- 83201002
Contact: Wang Wanqiu or Li Ye
E-mail: admission at uestc.edu.cn or wwq at uestc.edu.cn
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