Changsha University of Science and Technology &; Science and technology), referred to as "CSUST", is located in Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Transport and the Hunan Provincial People's Government, and it belongs to the "First-class Universities in China" (Class A) in Hunan Province.
Selected as a member of China Electric Power University Alliance, Green Transportation Alliance and China-Russia Jiaotong University Alliance, it is a typical university with graduate employment experience and a national model university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.
The profile of Changsha University of Science and Technology is as follows:
Changsha University of Science and Technology was formed by the merger of Changsha Jiaotong University and Changsha Institute of Electric Power in 2003. The predecessor of Changsha Jiaotong University is Changsha Navigation Engineering School founded by Ministry of Communications 1956, and the predecessor of Changsha Electric Power Institute is Changsha Hydropower School founded by Ministry of Electric Power Industry 1956.
Hunan Water Conservancy and Hydropower School founded by 1956 and Hunan Light Industry School founded by 1958 (later renamed Hunan Institute of Light Industry) merged into the original Changsha Institute of Electric Power in 200 1 and 2002.
As of June 2023, the school has two campuses, Jinpenling and Yuntang, covering an area of 2,980 mu, with a total construction area of10.4 million square meters and 3.6 million paper books in the library. There are 22 teaching colleges, 1 independent colleges, 1 continuing education colleges and 86 undergraduate majors. There are 5 post-doctoral research mobile stations and 8 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points.
There are 42 doctoral degree authorization points in two disciplines, 1 doctoral degree authorization points, 29 master degree authorization points in first-class disciplines, 134 master degree authorization points in two disciplines, 18 master degree authorization points, and 6 disciplines are among the top in ESI global rankings 1%. There are more than 2 100 full-time teachers and more than 45,000 students (including more than 7,000 in Chengnan University), including more than 8,500 master's and doctoral students.