Kunming University of Science and Technology is a provincial key university with the combination of science and engineering and multidisciplinary development. It was established by the Yunnan Provincial People's Government and the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. It is a national key discipline project, the key construction university of the "Basic Capacity Building Project of Central and Western Universities", and the China Municipal Government accepts scholarships for international students in China. It was selected into the excellent engineer education and training plan of the Ministry of Education, the national postgraduate project of building a high-level university, and the first batch of new engineering research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education. It is one of the first batch of six universities in the national innovative talents training demonstration base, and the first batch of national demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

As of 20 19, 1 1, the school has three campuses, namely Chenggong, Lianhua and Xinying, covering an area of 39 15 mu. There are 1 1 national post-doctoral research stations, 7 provincial post-doctoral research stations, 18 first-class doctoral programs, 4 1 first-class master programs, and 2 1 master degree categories. Undergraduate majors 1 12, there are nearly 45 national correspondence stations, and 50 undergraduate majors in night university and correspondence university; There are 26 colleges, 1 teaching department, 1 teaching department, 7 research institutes, 15 clinical teaching base, 29 high-quality student source bases and 3 applied talent training bases.

As of March, 20 18, the school has 28 colleges, 1 teaching department, 6 research institutes, 13 clinical teaching bases and 3 applied talents training bases, with 1 10 undergraduate majors.