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Former names | Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (北京钢铁学院) | ||||||||
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| Motto | 求实鼎新 | ||||||||
Motto in English | Seeking Truth and Endorsing Innovation | ||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||
| Established | 1952; 73 years ago (1952) | ||||||||
| Chancellor | WU Guilong（武贵龙） | ||||||||
| President | YANG Renshu (杨仁树) | ||||||||
| Undergraduates | 13,934 (2024) | ||||||||
| Postgraduates | 13,377 (2024) | ||||||||
| Location | , China[1] | ||||||||
| Campus | Urban 803,900 square meters[2] | ||||||||
| Nickname | Seashell (贝壳)[3] | ||||||||
| Affiliations | Beijing Tech Sino-Spanish University Alliance (SSU) | ||||||||
| Website | www.ustb.edu.cn/(in Chinese) en.ustb.edu.cn/(in English) | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 北京科技大学 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 北京科技大學 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 北京钢铁学院 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 北京鋼鐵學院 | ||||||||
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| Beijing Industrial Institute of Steel and Iron | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 北京钢铁工业学院 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 北京鋼鐵工業學院 | ||||||||
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TheUniversity of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB;北京科技大学) is apublic university inHaidian,Beijing,China.[4] It is affiliated with theMinistry of Education. The university is part ofProject 211 and theDouble First-Class Construction. The university was formerly known asBeijing Steel and Iron Institute (北京钢铁学院) before 1988.
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The university was founded in 1952 from the combination of five former colleges. It known then as theBeijing Industrial Institute of Steel and Iron (北京钢铁工业学院). It was renamed asBeijing Steel and Iron Institute (北京钢铁学院) in 1960. TheUniversity of Science and Technology Beijing name was not adopted until 1988.
In 1997, USTB was selected into the first tier of universities for China's211 Project (involved with the development of 100 world class universities in the 21st century for China).[5]
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| Beijing Steel and Iron Institute 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| University of Science and Technology Beijing 1988 | |||||||||||||||
USTB consists of 38 schools, provides 48undergraduate programs, 121 master programs, 73 doctoral programs and 16 postdoctoral research fields. The University has large departments inphysics,chemistry,engineering,economics, andEnglish. One of the largest departments is the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The University has about 14,000 undergraduate students and about 14,000PhD and graduate students. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has about 500 students in the undergraduate program and about 200 students in various graduate and PhD programs. Owing to its origin as a former iron and steel university the university has one of the strongest departments in the field of materials science with strong international visibility and reputation particularly in the field of physical metallurgy and metal physics of the microstructures of structural and functional materials.
USTB total area 803,900 m2 is located inHaidian District,Beijing, facingFourth Ring Road, where most key institutions of higher learning are gathered. TheUSTB Gymnasium for2008 Summer Olympics is located on the east part of the campus. It is one of the four competition gymnasiums in Beijing's universities, which provided places for competition items like judo and taekwondo in the 29th Olympic Games, as well as competition items like wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby in the 13th Paralympic Games. The USTB provides its students with newly builtdormitories, completed in 2005. After the Olympic Games, the main part of the gymnasium is provided as the place for indoor physical education, fitness training, athletic contests and artistic performances. The comprehensive gymnasium is provided as the place for swimming teaching and aquatic park.
USTB is an institution involving the Chinese Government Scholarship Program and has been accepting theinternational students since 1954. More than two thousands of students from 74countries andregions have been studying and doing research work in the university.
| BCUR National[7] | Domestic | 35 | |
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| Wu Shulian National[8] | Domestic | 45 | |
| QS National[9] | General | 30 | |
| QS Asia (Asia version)[10] | General | =153 | |
| ARWU World[11] | Research | 201–300 | |
| QS World[12] | General | =480 | |
| USNWR World[13] | General | =357 | |
The University of Science and Technology Beijing is listed as one of the top 500 global universities in several world university rankings such as theQS World University Rankings, theAcademic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), theU.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking, theCenter for World University Rankings, and theCWTS Leiden Ranking.[18][19][20][21][22]
As of 2023, theAcademic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the "Shanghai Ranking", placed USTB 201-300 in the world.[19] TheU.S. News & World Report ranked USTB 381th globally and 89th in Asia in its2024 Best Global Universities Rankings.[22]
The university is considered one of the major research institutions for Engineering in Beijing.[23] USTB's metallurgy and materials science programmes are highly regarded in China.[24] Since 2018, USTB has been ranked the best globally in theAcademic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for "Metallurgical Engineering".[24]
In recent years, eminent faculty members, together with outstanding young researchers of the university, such as Prof. YUE Qingrui,[25] have contributed significant original research to top-tier international journals in cutting-edge scientific domains. The Autonomous Vehicle Metaverse Project "Jiu Lu" by USTB was successfully launched.[26] Two papers from the USTB SCCE were selected as excellent papers by the China Association for Science and Technology.[27] 23 achievements by USTB won the 2022 China Metallurgical Science and Technology Award.[28]Five achievements of USTB won the State Science and Technology Awards.[29]
English: No. 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
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