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(华东理工大学)

Basic information

  • City: Shanghai
  • Founded in: 1952
  • Type: Public University
  • Number of total students: 28669
  • Number of international students: 402
  • Number of faculty: 3098
上海南京路步行街 Nanjing Road Walkway, Shanghai. Image by iStudy-Hera.

About Shanghai

Shanghai, on China’s central coast, is the country's biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds. ― Google

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About East China University of Science and Technology

Located in the southwest of Shanghai, a center of commerce, finance, culture and industrial production of China, East China University of Science and Technology is a dynamic and prominent research-intensive university with high teaching quality.

ECUST is comprised of more than 1.7 million square meters on 3 campuses. The main campus, being 17 kilometers from Hongqiao Airport and 45 kilometers from Pudong International Airport, is situated in the prosperous and energetic Xuhui District. In addition to its downtown location, the university also features two other campuses in Fengxian and Jinshan District.

The history of education of the university can be dated back to Nanyang Public School (1896) and Université d’Aurora (1903). The university was officially founded in 1952 after the mergence of chemical or chemistry departments from Jiaotong University, Université d’Aurora, Utopia University, Soochow University and Jiangnan University, and became the first chemical industry oriented university in China named as East China Institute of Chemical Technology.

With the value of “Diligence, Factuality, Aspiration and Virtue”, ECUST has always been making every endeavor to develop its united and pioneering spirit since its establishment, and is dedicated to providing its students with advanced knowledge and skills in an academic environment full of intellectual stimulation and scientific innovation.

Today, the university has 17 academic schools, together with the MOE-approved Sino-French joint school, International Elite Engineering School. A wide range of programs, covering 11 disciplines, namely science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, economics, management, literature, law, art, philosophy and education, is offered to cater to the demands of the society and to prepare the students for an ever-changing global context. Chemistry is among Top 1‰ of World ESI Ranking, and Materials Science, Engineering, Biochemistry and Biology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Environment/Ecology have walked into Top 1% group. Besides the education carried out in China, ECUST also takes initiative going global by establishing China’s first International Business School in Sibiu, Romania and building the first Confucius Institute featured in Science and Technology Innovation with the University of Huddersfield in UK.

Housing one Joint Research Center headed by 2016 Nobel Laureate in chemistry Ben Feringa, one Research Center of Contracts and Governance named after 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics Sciences Oliver Hart, together with five international joint laboratories, the university aims at global frontiers of science and technology and committed to high-level joint education and research for building a better shared future of mankind.

The current number of students has been around 28346, including over 11,500 postgraduates. The faculty and staff members has reached 3098 among whom there are more than 1200 professors and associate professors.

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The university faces the major needs of the country, aims at the frontiers of international science, insists on writing its thesis on the motherland, and continues to enhance the university’s ability to serve economic and social development. The university has 2 State Key Laboratories, 1 National Engineering Laboratory, 3 National Engineering (Technology) Research Centres, 1 Frontier Science Centre of the Ministry of Education, 1 Basic Science Centre of the Foundation Committee, 39 provincial and ministerial key research bases, and 5 provincial and ministerial think tanks (bases) for humanities and social sciences. It has built the National University Science and Technology Park, is one of the first six universities in China to establish a national technology transfer centre, and has been selected as a national intellectual property information service centre for universities, a base for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and technology transfer in universities, a national intellectual property demonstration university, and the first batch of pilot units for the construction of specialized national technology transfer institutions in universities. A large number of major innovative achievements have been made, with more than 2,000 valid patents of various types at home and abroad, and the large-scale industrialization and application of a number of common and key technologies in the industry have produced significant economic and social benefits.

The university has established long-term cooperation with more than 130 overseas institutions and research institutes, including the University of Oxford, and has built up an all-round, wide-ranging and multi-level openness and exchange with the world’s leading universities. The University was awarded the first batch of innovative practice bases for high-level international talent training by the Ministry of Education. Awarded 11 “111 Plan” disciplinary innovation bases by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The Fellinga Joint Research Centre for Nobel Prize Scientists and the Oliver Hart Research Centre for Contracts and Governance have been established. The International Institute of Excellence for Engineers (IIE), a Sino-French cooperative institution, the world’s first Confucius Institute for Science and Technology Innovation in the UK, and the first Sino-Romanian Sino-European International Business School in Sibiu, Romania were established.

Today, East China University of Science and Technology is guided by Xi Jinping’s thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, comprehensively implementing the spirit of the National Education Conference, and striving to build a first-class socialist university in accordance with the goals and tasks set by the 11th Party Congress of the university, based on the new era and rooted in China.

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