According to the list of double first-class universities, although the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences is not included in the list of world-class universities, it is included in the list of world-class universities in discipline construction. Therefore, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences is a double-class university, and two disciplines are included in the list of double-class universities for discipline construction.

The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, referred to as "National University of Science and Technology", is an innovative university with the integration of science and education as its running mode, postgraduate education as its main body and elite undergraduate education as its running feature.