Universities of Applied Sciences is the off-campus learning center of the online education college of East China University of Science and Technology, relying on the adult higher education running entity of the continuing education college.

East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), located in Shanghai, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), with disciplines of 1 1. It ranks among the national "double first-class", "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform". Selected as one of the national 16 key engineering universities, including the national public graduate program for building high-level universities, the innovation ability enhancement program for universities, the discipline innovation and intelligence introduction program for universities, the training program for top-notch students in basic disciplines 2.0, the two-million-dollar program, the education and training program for outstanding engineers, the research and practice program for new engineering, the national innovation experiment program for college students, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students, the national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the scholarship receiving institution for foreign students in China.