The PLA University of Science and Technology is a new comprehensive key university directly under the General Staff Department and one of the five key comprehensive universities built by the whole army. It shoulders the heavy responsibility of cultivating high-quality new military command and engineering technical personnel for national defense and military modernization, and is an important base for scientific research, technological innovation and equipment development of the country and the military.

China University of Science and Technology of the People's Liberation Army, formerly known as China People's Liberation Army Communication Engineering College, China People's Liberation Army Corps of Engineers Engineering College, Air Force Meteorological College, and the 63rd Research Institute of the General Staff were merged and formed. From the respective specialties of merged universities, the dominant discipline of PLA Communication Engineering College is communication engineering, while the 63rd College of General Staff is the new military communication technology college. The dominant disciplines of PLA Engineering College are bridge and tunnel engineering, disaster prevention and mitigation engineering and protection engineering; The dominant discipline of the Air Force Meteorological College is atmospheric science. To sum up, the characteristic majors of PLA University of Science and Technology are communication and information system, disaster prevention and mitigation engineering and protection engineering, bridge and tunnel engineering, software engineering, atmospheric science, civil engineering and armament science and technology, which are also national or provincial key majors.