Kunming University of Science and Technology

（昆明理工大学）

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City: Kunming, Yunnan
Founded in: 1954
Type: Public University
Number of total students: 49959
Number of international students: 697
Number of faculty: 4001

About Kunming

Kunming, the modern capital city and transportation hub of China’s southern Yunnan province, has a large student population and a temperate year-round climate. Bridges and pavilions cross the islands of Cui Hu (Green Lake), a park designed in the 17th century. Nearby is Yuantong Si. A temple founded by Buddhists in the 8th century, it features a statue hall and a pond with an ornate stone bridge. ― Google

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About Kunming University of Science and Technology

Officially founded in 1954 and with the history started from 1925, Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) is one of the top 100 universities in China, and the largest university as well as the only polytechnic university across Yunnan province. President Xi Jinping praised KUST “a famous university in China” in early 2015 during an inspection tour of Yunnan province. KUST has 3 campuses, all located in Kunming, the capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan province.

With 27 faculties (schools/colleges) and 3,858 staff members, KUST is offering over 300 degree programs at Bachelor, Master and Doctor levels to 45,923 full time on-campus students. The programs cover engineering, science, management, economics, medicine, law, arts, philosophy, agriculture, and education. Five (totally 11 in Yunnan as of March 9, 2021) disciplines (engineering science, material science, chemistry, environment/ecology, and plant and animal science) rate top 1% among world’s institutions by Essential Science Indicators (ESI).

The research in KUST is at the top level in Yunnan province, in both funding and achievements, with the important feature of very close connections to industries. In certain fields, especially the subjects related to mineral industry, KUST is at the top level of research in China. The annual research fund of KUST in recent 10 years has been taking a proportion of over a 60% of the total funding to all the universities in Yunnan province. KUST has 17 national level key-labs or research centers, and 91 of provincial/ministerial level and around 100 university level.

The goal of KUST is to develop into a high level research university in the international region, to serve the sustainable development of the region, and serve the wellbeing of mankind, by offering excellent teaching, research, social services, and also by promoting culture inheritance and exchange. KUST has established partnerships with over 110 universities in more than 30 countries, for the cooperation in research, student and staff exchange, joint programs, technical transfer etc. As a representative institution of Chinese universities, KUST has been playing an important role for China in the cooperation with the neighboring Southeast Asia and South Asia countries, including in the mechanisms of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC), China-ASEAN Cooperation, GMS Cooperation etc., and also in the other international and regional cooperation mechanisms including China-EU Cooperation, Asia-Europe higher education programs, among the others.

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As an open higher vocational college with an international perspective, Yunnan Forestry Technological College is now the chairman unit of Yunnan Ecological Civilization Construction Vocational Education Group, the vice chairman unit of “Lancang River-Mekong Vocational Education Alliance”, and the secretary general of Yunnan Forestry Vocational Education Group The unit, the governing unit of Yunnan Open Vocational Education Group and Yunnan Green Energy Vocational Education Group, has been designated as the training center of the China-Netherlands FCCD project. Successfully held the “First China-Myanmar Forest Resource Conservation and Community Development Forum” project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cooperated with the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada, and cooperated with the “2+2 College Upgrade” double diploma joint training project, and cooperated with the Vocational Education Committee of the Ministry of Education of Thailand and Bangladesh Education The Ministry signed a vocational education cooperation agreement to carry out “order” training of international students. There were 26 foreign students with academic qualifications from Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Malaysia. In 2017, the school was awarded the “Top 50 International Influential Colleges” in the country’s higher vocational colleges.

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