Research Excellence

USTC is a world leader in fields like quantum manipulation, nanotechnology, high-temperature superconductivity, speech processing, fire science and life science.

♦ 9 academic disciplines were listed in the top 1% by the Essential Science Indicators (ESI). And all the disciplines in science at USTC are rated A level by the Ministry of Education.

♦ Success rate of research proposals to National Science Foundation of China exceeds 45%, the highest among the Chinese universities

USTC was ranked first among Chinese universities from 2008 to 2014 by Nature Publishing Index China.

♦ Citations per faculty at USTC in the past ten years are 9.32, the highest among Chinese universities.

♦ USTC is the only university in China that has been listed in the “Annual Top 10 Advances in Sci & Tech in China” evaluated by academicians of CAS and CAE for the recent eight consecutive years.

USTC attaches great importance to technology transfer and has incubated dozens of high-tech enterprises. It jointly built the Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT) with Hefei City in 2012, aiming to better promote the combination of education, research and industry. USTC-IAT focuses on fostering technological innovation and technology transfer in the IT industry, as well as microelectronics, health care, new energy, new materials and quantum information, etc.