Suzhou University of Science and Technology:
Aim High with Will, Probe Far for Truth
The history of Suzhou University of Science and Technology (SUST) dates back to the 1950s. In the early 1980s, the state ministries of China established two institutions of high education to offer undergraduate programs in Suzhou. SUST was established in September of 2001, by merging the former Suzhou Institute of Urban Construction and Environmental Protection and the former Suzhou Railway Teachers College. It is managed jointly by the central and local governments, primarily by Jiangsu Province.
SUST is located in the western part of the city - Suzhou National Hi-Tech District. The university consists of three campuses, Shihu campus, Jiangfeng campus and Tianping campus, occupying a total area 132 ha. SUST has organized its academic programs into 19 schools offering 67 undergraduate programs and 48 postgraduate programs, covering 10 disciplines including engineering, natural physical science, liberal arts and humanities, business, social sciences and others. There are currently more than 1300 faculty and staff, including more than 200 professors and over 400 associate professors. There are over 180,000 full-time undergraduate students, over 2300 postgraduate students and about 100 international postgraduate students on campus.
SUST is one of the key universities in Jiangsu Province. It is consistently improving the quality of education by continuously modifying training modes, teaching contents and curriculum systems, as well as by improving and standardizing academic management. The university pays great attention to raising comprehensive abilities of the students' to learn, to think, to practice and to be creative. It has more than 90,000 alumni who are now in different professional areas all over China and abroad. Many alumni have become elite leaders in different social and economic sectors, including two academicians in CAS and CAE respectively. SUST has also made substantial achievements in the field of scientific research, technological innovation and community service.
SUST takes educational internationalization as one of its important development strategies and has established inter-school cooperation relationship with many foreign universities and colleges. As one of the universities providing China Aid training and education programs entrusted by state government, SUST regularly undertakes the training courses, seminars and degree education programs for the participants from developing counties for many years.
10 Provincial Key Disciplines:
- Architecture
- Urban and Rural Planning
- Landscape Architecture
- Environmental Science and Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Word History
- Mathematics
- Optical Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Architecture
- Urban and Rural Planning
- Landscape Architecture
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Civil Engineering
- Project Management
- Building Electricity & Intelligence
- History
- Applied Psychology
- Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
- Visual Communication Design
Web: www. usts.edu.cn
Add: No.99 Xuefu Road, Suzhou, China PC: 215009
Tel/Fax:
President Office Tel/Fax: 0086 (0)512-68247856/68242298
International Office Tel/Fax: 0086 (0)512-69379180/69379176
Email: po@mail.usts.edu.cn; wsc@mail.usts.edu.cn
