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Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) is located in the beautiful 'Spring City' of China - Kunming, the capital city of the mysterious and attractive Yunnan Province, the province located 'in the remote south of the colorful clouds'. As the largest university in Yunnan Province and one of the well-known universities in China, the earliest departments of KUST started admitting undergraduate students for Bachelor's degree in March 1925, and KUST became an independent public higher education institution in September 1954.In October 1999, based on a decision made by Yunnan Provincial Government and approved by the Education Ministry of China , the former
KUST and Yunnan Polytechnic University (founded in 1974) amalgamated into a new and much larger university and remained under the name of Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) .

With the current 20 faculties (schools), covering the fields ranging from science, engineering and economics to administration, arts, law and education, KUST offers a complete list of degree programs including Ph. D., MS., MSEng., MEng, MA, BS, BSEng and BA, as well as other programs including post-doctor, preparatory, continuing education, vocational training and Chinese language training for international students. 

KUST recruits students from all over China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In addition, KUST is authorized to recruit international students for degree programs ranging from Bachelor to Master and Ph. D. There are about 28,000 students currently studying at KUST, and among them nearly 2,000 are graduate students. KUST presently offers 64 Bachelor programs, 49 Master programs and 8 Ph.D. program areas. There are 3 state authorized post-doctoral stations, 1 state-level key academic subject and 14 province-level key academic subjects in KUST. 

KUST has a qualified and experienced academic staff team that conducts both teaching and research. The total number of the staff is about 3,700 including academic and non-academic ones, nearly 1,100 of them are professors and associate professors, and about 1,600 are full-time teaching staff. Furthermore, there is one academician of China Academy of Engineering working for KUST and there are 17 academicians of China Academy of Science and of China Academy of Engineering jointly working for KUST. 

KUST is composed of three campuses, Lianhua, Xinying and Bailong, all are in Kunming City, occupying an area of about 120 hectares. The buildings in the 3 campuses occupy over 730,000 square meters, and many important construction projects are still in progress. The university library has about 1.7 million volumes of books and periodicals, and the library is authorized as a state-level research documents collection unit. KUST has founded a state-level engineering research center, 2 provincial and/or ministerial level test stations, 2 research and development centers, 2 key laboratories of provincial level and 1 class-A design and research institute. There are 32 research institutes, 13 research laboratories and 13 research centers in KUST. 

KUST attaches great importance to both domestic and international exchange and cooperation. It has established cooperative and exchange relationships with nearly 70 universities of about 30 different countries, and solid ties with over 100 domestic local governments, institutions of higher education and research, as well as enterprises. The research activities in KUST play an important and critical role in Yunnan Province as well as in the southwest region of China. For each of the past two years, the increment of the research fund for KUST took a proportion of over 2/3 in the total increment for all the universities in Yunnan Province.

As the goal of perspective by 2010, KUST is on its way to become a key university with strong science and engineering background as its unique characteristic, a university with a leading position in Yunnan Province, advanced position in China and well-known position in the world. The university is to be developed into an important provincial training base for advanced technical personnel, a research base for both applied fundamental research and hi-tech research, an industrialization base for hi-tech, and also a research and consulting center for the national social and economic development.

Chief Heads of KUST:
President: Prof. ZHOU Rong
 Dean, School of Graduate Studies: Prof. WANG Hua
 Chief Librarian: Prof. ZHANG Zhonghua
 Director, Division of Teaching Affairs: Prof. LU Jiansheng
 Director, Division of Research and Development: Prof. SHEN Lizhong
 Director, Division of International Cooperation: Prof. DENG Gang

Important Statistics:
 Three Campuses' Area: 120 hectares
 Building Area: 7.3 hectares
 Library Collections: 1.7 million volumes
 Faculty Members: 3.7 thousand
 Student Number: 27 thousand 

List of Faculties:
1. Faculty of Land Resource Engineering
2. Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
3. Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
4. Faculty of Electric Power Engineering
5. Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation
6. Faculty of Civil and Architectural Engineering
7. Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering
8. Faculty of Biological and Chemical Engineering
9. Faculty of Transportation Engineering
10. Faculty of Modern Agricultural Engineering
11. Faculty of Law
12. Faculty of Arts
13. Faculty of Science
14. Faculty of Management and Economics
15. Faculty of Continuing Education
16. Faculty of Applied Technology
17. Faculty of Physical Education
18. Jinqiao College
19. Chuxiong College of Applied Technology
20. School of Graduate Studies