HKUST is a comprehensive science and engineering university with cutting-edge science and high technology, characteristic management and humanities. Its majors are relatively complete, generally including science and engineering, literature and history, and engineering.

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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, referred to as University of Electronic Science and Technology, is located in Chengdu, a land of abundance. It is a unit directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), ranked as "21Project" and "985 Project", and selected as one of the national "201Plan" and "65438+".

The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, formerly known as Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering, was established in 1956 under the personal deployment of Premier Zhou Enlai, and was formed by the merger of telecommunications engineering related majors of Jiaotong University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi Jiaotong University), Nanjing University of Science and Technology (now Southeast University) and South China University of Technology (now South China University of Technology). 1960 was listed as a national key institution of higher learning in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. 196 1 was identified by the central government as one of the seven national defense industrial colleges. 1988, renamed University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. /kloc-0 was identified as the first batch of national key universities in "2 1 1 project" in 1997. In 2000, the former Minister of Information Industry was transferred to the Minister of Education. 200 1 entered the ranks of key construction universities in the national "985 Project".