Birth from two World-class Universities:
The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Formed through a merger in 1956
In the 2024 ESI subject rankings *, UESCT has one major ranked in the global top 1‱, 4 majors in the world's top 1‰, and 16 majors in the world's top 1%.
In the 2024 US News World Academic Ranking *, the university is ranked 6th in the world for electrical and electronic engineering and 16th for computer science. The university is ranked No. 3 in the world for communication engineering and No. 11 in the world for computer science and engineering in the Softech World Class Academic Ranking.
In the 2024 soft science world university academic ranking *, the school entered the world's top 150. The school has more than 360 high-level talents with the largest scale and excellent structure in the field of electronic information in China.
'The land of abundance'/cradle for electronic industry
One of the early group of 7 key universities for national defense
Project 211 and Project 965
Selected for top 36 'double firstclass' in 2017
c. 40,000 students
c. 4.000 academic staff
University of Glasgow
Established in 1451
Member of the Russell Group of research-intensive Uk universities
Ranked in the top 100 of the world's universities/ THE University of the year in 2021 / 2nd in the Russell Group for teaching andstudent satisfaction (NSS 2020)
c. 35,000 students from more than 140 countries
8 Nobel Laureates, 2 Prime Ministers, 3 First Ministers of Scotland
Honorary Alumni :
Adam smith ： Founder of modern economics (Enrolled at Glasgow University at 14, later a Professor, author of “The Wealth of Nations”)
James Watt ： Developed a commercially viable steam engine, which led to British industrial revolution
Lord Kelvin ：Discovered absolute temperature (Enrolled at the University of Glasgow at 10 and became a Professor at 24)
John Logie Baird : Pioneer of television
William John Macquorn Rankine : Complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines.
Quality assurance recognised by domestic and international official bodies
UESTC:
Accepted the assessment of undergraduate educational work level by the Ministry of Education of China and the assessment of Chinese-foreign
co-operation in operating schools.
UofG:
Accredited by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). High-level and diversified international exchange platform
* Data from:
Essential Science Indicators - Clarivate
US News Education | Best Colleges | Best Graduate Schools | Online Schools
软科-高等教育评价领先品牌 (shanghairanking.cn)
The data has been updated as of May 2024.
