Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) is located in the beautiful ' Spring City' of China - Kunming. As the largest university in Yunnan Province and one of the well-known universities in China, the earliest departments of KUST started admitting undergraduate students for Bachelor's degree in March 1925, and KUST became an independent public higher education institution in September 1954.In October 1999, based on a decision made by Yunnan Provincial Government and approved by the Ministry of Education of China, the former KUST and Yunnan Polytechnic University (founded in 1974) amalgamated into a new and much larger university and remained under the name of Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) . The University offers comprehensive mandarin language program for students at all levels.

University Facts

With the current 21 faculties (schools), covering the fields ranging from science, engineering and economics to management, arts, law and education, KUST offers a complete list of degree programs including Ph. D., MS., MSEng., MEng, MA, BS, BSEng and BA, as well as other programs including post-doctor, preparatory, continuing education, vocational training and Chinese language training for international students.

KUST recruits students from all over China , including Hong Kong , Macao and Taiwan . In addition, KUST is authorized to recruit international students for degree programs ranging from Bachelor to Master and Ph. D. There are over 40,000 students currently studying at KUST, and among them over 3,000 are graduate students. KUST presently offers 67 Bachelor programs, 74 Master programs and 24 Ph.D. programs. There are 4 state authorized post-doctoral stations, 1 state-level key academic subject and 18 province-level key academic subjects in KUST.

KUST has a qualified and experienced academic staff team that conducts both teaching and research. The total number of the staff is about 3,300 including academic and non-academic ones, nearly 800 of them are professors and associate professors, and over 1,600 are full-time teaching staff. Furthermore, there is one academician of China Academy of Engineering working for KUST and there are a number of academicians of China Academy of Science and of China Academy of Engineering jointly working for KUST.

KUST is composed of three campuses, namely Lianhua, Xinying and Bailong, all are in Kunming City, occupying an area of about 120 hectares. The floor area of the buildings in the 3 campuses occupy over 900,000 square meters, and many important construction projects are still in progress. The university library has about 2.2 million.