East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) was founded in 1952 as East China Institute of Chemical Technology, and its school-running history can be traced back to Nanyang College and Aurora College more than 100 years ago. After more than half a century of reform and construction, it has developed into a research-oriented national key university with distinctive characteristics and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.
The school campus has elegant environment and beautiful scenery, and is a garden unit in Shanghai. There are three campuses: Xuhui, Jinshan and Fengxian. Fengxian Campus, located in Shanghai Bay Tourist Resort, was officially put into use in 2007. The total area of the school is 1.768 million square meters, and the total area of various buildings is 51.30 million square meters. There are many standard sports facilities such as gym, swimming pool and plastic track and field. The school library has a total collection of 2.3 million books, more than 7000 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals/KLOC-0, more than 20 large CD-ROM databases such as CA and EI, and a full set of patented microfilm in the United States. It is the leading unit of the national information cooperation network of chemical engineering colleges and universities, and has established the Shanghai branch of the CD-ROM Information Center of Beijing Library, the workstation of the Science and Technology Project Consultation and Achievements Novelty Retrieval Center of the Ministry of Education, and the foreign language teaching material center of Shanghai universities. School analysis and testing center and jewelry testing center are national metrological certification units.
The school has 15 professional colleges and Marxist colleges, including chemical engineering college, bioengineering college, chemical and molecular engineering college, pharmacy college, materials science and engineering college, mechanical and power engineering college, resources and environmental engineering college, science college, business college, social and public management college, art design and media college, foreign languages college, law school, sports science and engineering college (humanities
The school's degree authorization points cover 1 1 disciplines and 34 first-level disciplines such as science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, philosophy, economics, law, literature, history and teaching. There are 54 undergraduate majors, 12 1 master's degree authorization points, 43 doctoral degree authorization points, 16 engineering master's degree authorization fields and MBA, MPA and university teachers' professional degree authorization rights, and there are 5 post-doctoral mobile stations. Chemical engineering is the most important discipline in Shanghai and a national key discipline. The disciplines of biochemical engineering, chemistry and pharmaceutical engineering are national key disciplines and Shanghai key disciplines; Materials science and engineering are the key disciplines in Shanghai. There is a national course construction base for engineering chemistry.