Changsha University of Science & Technology

Changsha University of Science and Technology (CSUST) was established in 2003 by the merger of the former Changsha Institute of Transportation and Changsha Institute of Electric Power, which were both built in 1956. It is a multi-disciplinary university with engineering as priority and coordinated development of engineering with science, management, economics, law, philosophy and arts. CSUST is devoted to high quality undergraduate education with 32 national first-class undergraduate programs under construction, accounting for 48% of the 83 undergraduate programs. Currently, the university has 3 Sino-foreign undergraduate cooperative education programs granted by the Ministry of Education, namely civil engineering, electrical engineering and automation, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation. It has 5 post-doctoral research stations, 6 primary-discipline doctoral programs, 33 sub-discipline doctoral programs, 27 primary-discipline master's programs, 126 sub-discipline master's programs and 17 professional master's programs. It is accredited to enroll international students under China Government Scholarship Programs. Its total enrollment is about 31,000.

CSUST is one of the Universities in Central and Western China of Basic Capability Building Project. It was chosen as the first batch of national top 50 Pilot school of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan". It is now implementing the "Innovative Experiment Plan for College Students" project of the Ministry of Education and the "Domestic First-class University Construction " of Hunan Province. CSUST is prestigious in industries such as transportation, electric power, hydraulic engineering, light industry, etc. Five disciplines, including engineering, materials science, chemistry, computer science and mathematics, are ranked in the top 1% globally by ESI.

It has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 90 universities and research institutions in more than 20 countries and regions. Up to now it has cultivated more than 400, 000 senior talents，with job quality and employment rate of graduates at the forefront of the province's universities for many years. The employment rate for 2020 was 95.57%.

In the latest QS World University Rankings, it is ranked as the 100th best university in mainland China. The university has two campuses, namely Yuntang Campus and Jinpenling Campus. There are 21 teaching colleges and 1 continuing education college. It has 2 national engineering laboratories, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and a dozen of provincial key laboratories. There are 6 national engineering practice education centers, 2 national demonstration experiment teaching centers, 2 national virtual simulation experiment teaching centers, 1 national off-campus practice education base for college students, 11 provincial demonstration experiment (practice) teaching centers, and 4 provincial virtual simulation experiment teaching centers. Three Confucius Institutes have been set up in cooperation with University of Montenegro, University of Liberia and University of Sabah in Malaysia.

CSUST makes it its responsibility to cultivate virtuous and creative students with knowledge and capability. Striving to build a high-level university with distinctive characteristics, we implement the strategy of promoting the university through teaching quality improvement, talent training and discipline construction under the guidance. We are committed to serving the society and cultivating all-round application-oriented senior professionals and industry elites to make greater contributions to transportation, electric power, water conservancy, light industry and other industries as well as local economic and social development.

Founded in June 2015, the International College of CSUST endeavours to cultivate international students, carry out Sino-foreign cooperation in education, provide training concerning foreign languages and affairs, and develop extensive international exchange and cooperation. It is a teaching college in line with international standards while with distinctive Chinese characteristics.

The College has office of joint-education program, office of international student affairs, center for learning and development including Department of  Chinese International Education, and office of international exchange and cooperation. It is the training base for international talents, window for open education, innovative platform for international exchange and cooperation.

Missions

Equality, cooperation, win-win

Visions

To fully carry out the Party’s education policies and achieve a new leap forward in talent cultivation, scientific research, social services and cultural inheritance and innovation; to implement the guiding principle of “expanding capacity, improving standards, standardizing management and ensuring quality” and the running strategies of “opening, cooperation, amalgamation and development”;  and to promote the coordinated development of international education, exchanges and cooperation, and establish a well-known high-quality instructional international college with distinct characteristics.

Objectives

Centered on students’ development, the College carries out the fundamental mission of “strengthening moral education and cultivating talents”, and adheres to the education concept of “moral education as the primary, knowledge as the foundation, ability as the focus, and all-round development”. Besides, it introduces, integrates and absorbs high-quality educational resources abroad, relying on the university’s preponderant disciplines and majors. On one hand, to cultivate highly-specialized foreign-related professionals and industry elites with outstanding ideological quality, international vision and patriotism, spirit of innovation and skills in cross-cultural communication, as well as “solid foundation, wide range of knowledge, strong capabilities, and high quality”; on the other hand, to cultivate foreign highly specialized and administrative talents who understand China and are friendly to China, with satisfactory scientific and humanistic quality, solid professional foundation, outstanding practice ability, and sufficient knowledge in international engineering laws, regulations and practices.