Bird's eye view of QUST

Founded in September, 1950, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) is located in the beautiful costal city of Qingdao known as the “Eastern Switzerland”, it was formerly known as Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology. It got its present name in March of 2002 after the approval of the Education Ministry of China.

QUST has two campuses: the Sifang Campus has a space area of 370,000M², and the East Campus, covering 1,335,000M², situates in the beautiful Old Stone Man National Tourist Resort. QUST has a staff of 1880, with 624 of them holding professorship, and 23,000 students, about 1000 of them are postgraduates or PhD students.

QUST has 19 colleges, 7 PhD majors, 49 Master’s degree majors, and 55 Bachelor’s degree majors. Its majors around Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Information and Controlling Engineering etc. have played important roles in China.

School Gate of Sifang Campus

QUST always takes teaching as its core, and has educated more than 60,000 high-level professional talents for the society. It emphasizes scientific research as well and has created a “QUST Phenomenon”. In the past decade, QUST has won 13 State Technical Invention Prizes and State Science and Technology Progress Prize. According to the ranking parade about the situation of gaining 3 State Technical Achievement Prizes among the state general universities conducted by the Central Educational Institute for the period of 1997 to 1999, QUST ranks 5th for State Technical Invention Prize, and 74th for State Science and Technology Progress Prize. And it ranks 67th according to “The List of Universities of the Patent Application Figure”(1985-2000) issued by the Technical Developing Center of Education Ministry.  Between 2003 and 2004, the papers of QUST included in SCI and EI rank 87th , 66th  (SCI) and 83rd, 86th (EI) among all the state universities in China.

QUST develops rapidly in co-operation and exchange with foreign institutions. It has already established Sister University relationship with 16 universities of many countries like Russia, Germany, Korea, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, and USA. And it starts 9 joint-education programs with universities of Germany, Korea, France, USA, Estonia and Canada. The Sino-Germany Technical College co-established by Paderborn University (Germany) and QUST is considered as a model in both China and Germany.  

Every year there are about 150 long-term foreign students and over 300 short-term ones studying in QUST. They are mainly from Korea, USA, Russia, Viet Nam, Germany, Japan, Pakistan, India, etc.

A View of Campus in Winter

Every year, QUST employs about 30 foreign experts and teachers to teach English, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean, and academic courses. And it also sends teachers and students abroad teaching and studying in foreign universities.

QUST aims to develop itself into a world famous teaching and research university offering academic degrees in Science, Engineering, Business, Management, Humanities, Medicine, Law, etc.