Changsha University of Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary university focusing on engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law and art. It is a provincial key university jointly established by the Hunan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Transport, an "excellent engineer education and training program" university of the Ministry of Education and an engineering university for basic capacity building in the central and western universities, one of the six universities of the "Green Transportation Alliance" and one of the "UHV Scholarship" universities, and the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. The school has Post-Doctoral Research Center, the right to confer doctoral degrees and the right to exempt master students from exams.
In April 2003, the school was formed by the merger of Changsha Jiaotong University under the former Ministry of Communications and Changsha Electric Power College under the former State Power Company (former Ministry of Electric Power Industry).