The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (hereinafter referred to as the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and it is a national "double first-class", "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project" construction university. The school is located in Chengdu, with Wang Yafei, Party Secretary, and Ceng Yong, President. The school motto is "seeking truth from facts, majestic".

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China is a multi-disciplinary research university with electronic information science and technology as its core, engineering as its core, science and engineering as its infiltration, and the coordinated development of science, engineering, management, literature and medicine.

By March 2022, the school had four campuses, namely Qingshuihe, Shahe, Jiulidi and Yongning, with a total construction area of 1.39 million square meters, 23 colleges (departments) and 65 undergraduate majors, of which 13 was a national specialty, 32 majors were selected as national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, 2 national first-class key disciplines, and 2.

There are 9 doctoral degree authorization points 19 for first-class disciplines, 3 master degree authorization points11 for first-class disciplines, 4 doctoral degree authorization points, 2 master degree authorization points 12, postdoctoral mobile stations 15, and more than 3,800 faculty members.

The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, formerly known as Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering, was established in September. 1956. It is the first radio university in new China, which is formed by the merger of the telecommunication engineering department of Jiaotong University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi Jiaotong University), the telecommunication department of South China University of Technology (now South China University of Technology) and the radio department of Nanjing University of Science and Technology (now Southeast University). 1988 was renamed University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

By 2022, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China will rank 30th in China University of Soft Science in 2022.