The University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) is a multidisciplinary applied research-oriented university with engineering as its core.

There are 19 schools, colleges and departments with more than 28,000 full-time students, including more than 16,000 undergraduate students and more than 12,000 graduate students at USST. Of its over 2,700 faculty and staff members, there are 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (adjunct academicians included), 87 national-level talents, 331 provincial or ministerial-level talents, 1064 teachers with senior titles, and 543 doctoral supervisors.

USST currently has 64 undergraduate programs, eight first-class discipline doctoral programs, 29 first-class master's degree programs, and 20 professional master's degree programs and eight centers for post-doctoral studies.

A view of the USST campus. [Photo/Official website of USST]

USST has 29 national and 53 provincial or ministerial-level teaching platforms, seven national and 48 provincial or ministerial-level scientific research platforms. Its nine disciplines, namely Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental/Biological Science, Agricultural Science, Physics, Mathematics, and Social Sciences have long ranked among the top 1 percent of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) in the world.

One of the earliest institutions of higher education in China to set up international cooperative programs in school-running, USST, which currently has nearly 600 international students, has established cooperative relations with 208 institutions of higher education in 41 countries and regions. It has so far established two Sino-foreign joint educational institutions: the Sino-British College and Sino-German College.

A view of the Shanghai International Cultural Park at USST. [Photo/Official website of USST]

Contact Us

Address: 516 Jungong Road, Shanghai

Tel: 021-5527-0087 (Admission)

021-5527-1605 (Recruitment)

Email: fso@usst.edu.cn (Admission)

ussthr@163.com (Recruitment)

(Statistics as of February 2025)