Huazhong University of Science and Technology, HUST for short, is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province. It is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and a vice-ministerial university directly under the Central Government. Ranked in the first batch of double-class, 985 Project, 2 1 Project, 21Century Academic Alliance, China-International Applied Science and Technology Development Cooperation Network and Sino-Russian Comprehensive University Alliance.
It is also a member university of China-Russia Engineering University Alliance, China-Europe Engineering Education Platform, Seven-University Joint Education, Global Energy Internet University Alliance, Carbon-neutral World University Alliance, China Pilot Free Trade Zone Research Institute, China-Europe Engineering Education Platform, National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Alliance, and 16 National Engineering University Science and Technology Alliance, and was selected into1plan.
The University of Science and Technology of China has also been selected into the excellent doctoral education and training plan, the Hubei 20 1 1 plan, the national college students' innovation experiment plan, the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, the national public graduate program for building a high-level university, the new engineering research and practice plan, the national demonstration university for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and the China government scholarship receiving institution for international students in China.
It is also a demonstration base for studying in China by the Ministry of Education, a national cultural quality education base for college students, one of the ten medical colleges jointly established with the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and one of the four colleges jointly established with the National Science Center.