Kunming University of Science and Technology

Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) is a provincial public university in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in south-western China, and the largest polytechnic institution in the province.昆明理工大学是位于中国西南云南省省会昆明的省属公办大学，也是全省规模最大的理工科高校。

It was founded in 1954 as Kunming Institute of Technology, took its present name in February 1995 and merged with Yunnan Polytechnic University in October 1999, which is why its history is traced through two engineering lineages.学校 1954 年以昆明工学院之名创建，1995 年 2 月改为现名，1999 年 10 月又与云南工业大学合并，因此其校史由两条工程教育脉络汇成。

In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it sits in the 401-500 band, it is ranked 1,043rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, and it entered neither the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027 nor the QS World University Rankings 2027.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位列第 401-500 名区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 1043 名；未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。

History

• The lineage begins with the private Donglu University, founded in Kunming on 8 December 1922 by the provincial governor Tang Jiyao, which opened the following year with undergraduate, preparatory and attached middle-school classes.学校的源头可追溯到 1922 年 12 月 8 日由云南督军兼省长唐继尧在昆明创办的私立东陆大学，该校次年开学，设本科、预科与附中。
• In 1932 the Yunnan Provincial Teachers College was merged into Donglu University, which then comprised a college of arts with politics, economics and law, a college of engineering with civil and mining-metallurgy departments, and a college of education.1932 年云南省立师范学院并入东陆大学，该校当时设有含政治经济与法律系的文学院、含土木与矿冶系的工学院，以及教育学院。
• In 1952 the non-ferrous metals programme of Chongqing University was transferred to Yunnan University, strengthening the metallurgical teaching that would define the new institute.1952 年重庆大学有色金属专修科并入云南大学，加强了日后决定新学院特色的冶金教学。
• In 1953 seven teachers from the Xichang Technical School joined the Yunnan University engineering college, and the mining-metallurgy and mechanical-electrical departments of Guizhou University were moved in with their staff, students and equipment.1953 年西昌技艺专科学校 7 名教师调入云南大学工学院，贵州大学矿冶系与机械电机系的师生及全部设备也相继并入。
• On 11 July 1954 the State Council approved the separation of Yunnan University's engineering college as an independent polytechnic concentrating on non-ferrous metallurgy and mining.1954 年 7 月 11 日，政务院批准云南大学工学院独立建校，定名为以有色冶金和采矿为重点的多科性工学院。
• Kunming Institute of Technology was formally established on 1 September 1954 under the Ministry of Higher Education, with civil engineering and mining-metallurgy as its founding departments.昆明工学院于 1954 年 9 月 1 日正式成立，隶属高等教育部，建校之初设土木工程系与采矿冶金系。
• In 1958 the institute was transferred to Yunnan Province, and in 1960 it created a branch at Luoci and saw the Yunnan Mechanical Institute set up from its mechanical department.1958 年学校下放云南省管理，1960 年成立罗茨分院，并以机械系为基础组建云南机械学院。
• In 1961 Yunnan Mechanical Institute, Yunnan Coal Institute, the Luoci branch, the metallurgy and mining-machinery departments of Southern and Western Yunnan universities, Yunnan Railway College and the steel metallurgy programme of Gansu University of Technology were merged into the institute.1961 年，云南机械学院、云南煤炭学院、罗茨分院、滇南大学冶金机械系、滇西大学采矿机械系、云南铁道学院以及甘肃工业大学钢铁冶金专业并入昆明工学院。
• In 1963 the chemical engineering department of Southern Yunnan University was merged in, and the institute passed to the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry.1963 年滇南大学化工系并入，学校划归冶金工业部管理。
• In 1970 it was placed under Yunnan Province again, and in 1978 it returned to dual leadership with the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry taking the leading role.1970 年学校再次下放云南省，1978 年恢复由冶金工业部与云南省双重领导、以冶金工业部为主。
• In 1983 the institute was transferred to the China National Nonferrous Metals Industry Corporation, the state body that then ran most of the country's metal producers.1983 年学校划归中国有色金属工业总公司管理，该公司当时统辖全国大部分有色金属生产企业。
• In February 1995 Kunming Institute of Technology was renamed Kunming University of Science and Technology, a change that recognised its expansion beyond metallurgy into wider engineering and science.1995 年 2 月，昆明工学院更名为昆明理工大学，这一变化反映了学校从冶金扩展到更广泛工程与理科领域的现实。
• In March 1998 the university came under joint construction by the nonferrous metals corporation and Yunnan Province, and in September of the same year it moved to a central-local arrangement led by the province.1998 年 3 月，学校实行中国有色金属工业总公司与云南省共建，同年 9 月转为中央与地方共建、以云南省为主的管理体制。
• The second lineage starts in 1910, when an apprentice school became the Elementary Industrial School and a Higher Mining and Industry School was opened in Yunnan, initially for male students only.第二条脉络始于 1910 年：艺徒学堂改称初等工艺学堂，云南又开办高等工矿学堂，初期只招收男生。
• That school was renamed the Provincial Industrial School in 1912 and the Yunnan Class-A Industrial School in 1913, and part of it became the Road Engineering School in 1921.该校 1912 年改为省会工业学校，1913 年更名云南甲种工业学校，1921 年其一部分改为路政学堂。
• In 1930 it became the Yunnan Provincial First Industrial School, and after 1949 the Kunhua Advanced Industrial Vocational School and part of the Kunhua Women's Practical Arts School were merged into the Kunming Industrial School.1930 年学校改称云南省立第一工业学校；1949 年后，省立昆华高级工业职业学校与省立昆华女子实用技艺职业学校的一部分合并为云南省昆明工业学校。
• The Kunming Industrial School was renamed the Yunnan First Industrial School in 1961, and in 1965 the Yunnan Third Industrial School and the Yunnan Agricultural Machinery School were created alongside it.昆明工业学校 1961 年更名云南省第一工业学校；1965 年又创建了云南省第三工业学校与云南省农业机械学校。
• On 11 December 1974 those three schools were expanded into the Yunnan Institute of Technology, which in 1984 was joined by a Kunming branch of the Chongqing Institute of Architecture and Engineering.1974 年 12 月 11 日，以这三所学校为基础扩建成立云南工学院，1984 年重庆建筑工程学院昆明分院成立。
• In 1985 the Yunnan Chemical Engineering College and a Kunming branch of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China were opened, and on 6 September 1994 the four institutions were merged into Yunnan Polytechnic University.1985 年云南化工专科学校与电子科技大学昆明分部成立，1994 年 9 月 6 日这四所院校合并组建云南工业大学。
• In October 1999 the former Kunming University of Science and Technology and Yunnan Polytechnic University merged into the present university, which kept the KUST name.1999 年 10 月，原昆明理工大学与云南工业大学合并组建新的昆明理工大学，保留了昆明理工大学的校名。
• On 28 December 2004 the Yunnan Analysis and Testing Centre was incorporated into the university as a whole, adding a provincial analytical laboratory to its research base.2004 年 12 月 28 日，云南省分析测试中心成建制并入学校，为其研究平台增添了一所省级分析实验室。
• In March 2011 the university opened its medical school and took over the Kunhua Hospital, the First People's Hospital of Yunnan, as an affiliated hospital.2011 年 3 月，学校成立医学院，并将云南省第一人民医院作为附属昆华医院。
• In June 2016 the School of Aeronautics was inaugurated on the Chenggong campus, and in September 2018 the Yunnan Provincial Government and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence agreed to co-build the university.2016 年 6 月，航空学院在呈贡校区揭牌；2018 年 9 月，云南省人民政府与国家国防科技工业局签署协议共建学校。
• In May 2021 the university was admitted to the national Programme for Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities, known as the 111 Programme, and in December of that year its artificial intelligence industrial college was named among the first modern industrial colleges.2021 年 5 月，学校获批高等学校学科创新引智计划，即「111 计划」；同年 12 月，人工智能产业学院入选首批现代产业学院。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into 30 schools and faculties with about 3,900 staff, offering degrees from bachelor's to doctoral level across engineering, science, medicine, management, economics, law, art and education.学校设有 30 个学院，有教职工约 3900 人，在工、理、医、管、经、法、艺术与教育等领域授予学士至博士学位。
• It offers 107 undergraduate programmes, 17 first-level doctoral disciplines, three professional doctoral categories, 44 first-level master's disciplines and 22 professional master's categories.学校开设 107 个本科专业，拥有 17 个一级学科博士学位授权点、3 个博士专业学位授权点、44 个一级学科硕士学位授权点与 22 个硕士专业学位授权点。
• Research training is supported by 11 national postdoctoral stations and eight provincial ones, covering metallurgy, materials, mining, geology, environment, mechanics and management science.科研训练依托 11 个国家级博士后科研流动站与 8 个省级流动站，覆盖冶金、材料、矿业、地质、环境、力学与管理科学等学科。
• The university holds one national key discipline, non-ferrous metallurgy, one national key discipline under cultivation, environmental engineering, 23 provincial key disciplines and nine jointly built with provincial academies.学校有 1 个国家重点学科有色金属冶金、1 个国家重点培育学科环境工程、23 个省级重点学科，以及与省院省校合作共建的 9 个重点学科。
• Six fields enter the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators ranking: engineering, materials science, chemistry, environment and ecology, plant and animal science and agricultural sciences.学校有 6 个学科进入 ESI 全球前 1%，分别是工程学、材料科学、化学、环境与生态学、植物与动物学、农业科学。
• Thirty-two undergraduate programmes are designated national first-class programme points and 15 are provincial first-class points, a designation used in China's recent teaching reforms.学校有 32 个国家级一流本科专业建设点与 15 个省级一流本科专业建设点，这是中国近年教学改革中的专业认定。
• Eight programmes carry the national characteristic specialty label: metallurgy, mechanical engineering and automation, information management and information systems, architecture, environmental engineering, mineral processing, water conservancy and hydropower, and electrical engineering and automation.8 个专业为国家级特色专业：冶金工程、机械工程及自动化、信息管理与信息系统、建筑学、环境工程、矿物加工工程、水利水电工程、电气工程及其自动化。
• National experimental teaching centres cover environmental engineering, engineering training and metallurgical engineering, and a national virtual simulation centre serves metallurgical teaching.国家级实验教学示范中心覆盖环境工程、工程训练与冶金工程，另有国家虚拟仿真实验教学中心服务冶金教学。
• Twelve national engineering practice education centres link teaching to companies including Kunming Iron and Steel, Yunnan Power Grid, Chinalco Yunnan Copper, Pangang Group, Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower and Yunnan Metallurgical Group.12 个国家级工程实践教育中心把教学与昆明钢铁、云南电网、中铝云铜、攀钢集团、华能澜沧江水电、云南冶金集团等企业连接起来。
• Five programmes have passed national professional evaluation and 15 have passed national engineering education accreditation, and the university has run four national new-engineering research and practice projects.学校有 5 个专业通过国家专业评估、15 个专业通过国家工程教育专业认证，并获批 4 项国家级新工科研究与实践项目。
• It has built eight national excellent courses, two national open video courses, one national shared resource course and three national experimental teaching demonstration centres.学校建成 8 门国家精品课程、2 门国家精品视频公开课、1 门国家精品资源共享课与 3 个国家级实验教学示范中心。
• The medical school teaches across 14 clinical bases made up of ten affiliated hospitals, three teaching hospitals and one internship hospital.医学院在 14 个临床教学基地开展教学，其中包括 10 所附属医院、3 所教学医院与 1 所实习医院。
• Engineering faculties include metallurgical and energy engineering, materials science and engineering, environmental science and engineering, land resources engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering and electric power engineering.工科学院包括冶金与能源工程、材料科学与工程、环境科学与工程、国土资源工程、机电工程与电力工程等学院。
• Further faculties cover information engineering and automation, civil engineering and mechanics, architecture and city planning, chemical engineering, transportation engineering, civil aviation and aeronautics, and public security and emergency management.其他学院涵盖信息工程与自动化、土木工程与力学、建筑与城市规划、化学工程、交通工程、民航与航空，以及公安与应急管理等领域。
• Management and economics, law, science, art and communication, Marxism and foreign languages and cultures are taught in their own faculties, and the law school hosts a provincial institute for local legislation and one for intellectual property development.管理与经济、法学、理学、艺术与传媒、马克思主义、外国语言文化等均设独立学院，法学院还设有云南省地方立法研究院与云南省知识产权发展研究院。
• The university also lists City College, Oxbridge College, the School of International Education, the School of Continuing Education and a graduate school among its teaching units.学校的教学单位还包括城市学院、津桥学院、国际学院、继续教育学院与研究生院。
• Its staff includes about 1,100 professors and associate professors and some 1,600 full-time teachers, with one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on the faculty and 17 academy members working with the university in various capacities.学校有教授、副教授约 1100 人，专任教师约 1600 人，校内有一名中国工程院院士，另有 17 位两院院士以不同方式参与学校工作。
• In 2015 the university reported 52,754 students, of whom 20,331 were postgraduate, taught in 64 bachelor's, 49 master's and eight doctoral programme areas at the time.2015 年学校报告在校生 52754 人，其中研究生 20331 人，当时设有 64 个本科专业、49 个硕士专业与 8 个博士专业领域。
• The library holds about 1.7 million volumes of books and periodicals and is authorised as a state-level research document collection unit.图书馆藏书与期刊约 170 万册，并被确定为国家级科研文献收藏单位。

Campus

• KUST has three campuses, Chenggong, Lianhua and Xinying, all inside Kunming, occupying about 120 hectares with more than 730,000 square metres of building floor space.学校有呈贡、莲华、新迎三个校区，均在昆明市内，占地约 120 公顷，校舍建筑面积超过 73 万平方米。
• The Lianhua campus in the Wuhua district is the historic site, and its library and main building appear in most published views of the university.位于五华区的莲华校区是历史较久的校园，其图书馆与主楼出现在学校对外发布的大多数影像中。
• Behind the main building at Lianhua stands a statue known on campus as the goddess, a landmark used to arrange meetings and graduations.莲华校区主楼后方立有一座被师生称为「女神」的雕像，是约见与毕业留影常用的地标。
• The Chenggong campus, in the university town south-east of the city centre, hosts newer faculties including the School of Aeronautics inaugurated in 2016.呈贡校区位于市中心东南的大学城，容纳了包括 2016 年揭牌的航空学院在内的较新学院。
• The School of Architecture and City Planning maintains an earthen architecture centre at Chenggong, where the Yunnan Rural Revitalisation College was inaugurated in July 2021.建筑与城市规划学院在呈贡校区设有生土建筑研究中心，2021 年 7 月云南乡村振兴学院在此揭牌。
• Yunnan University Science Park, created as an experimental university science park in 1999 and given national status in May 2001, is jointly supported by Yunnan University, KUST and Yunnan Normal University.云南大学科技园 1999 年作为大学科技园试点创建，2001 年 5 月获国家级认定，由云南大学、昆明理工大学与云南师范大学共同支撑。
• The university's clinical teaching is anchored by the Kunhua Hospital, the First People's Hospital of Yunnan, which became affiliated in 2011 and sits in central Kunming.学校的临床教学以昆华医院即云南省第一人民医院为依托，该院 2011 年成为附属医院，位于昆明市区。
• In July 2021 the university signed an agreement with the Anning municipal government to run the First People's Hospital of Anning as a second affiliated hospital.2021 年 7 月，学校与安宁市人民政府签约，共建昆明理工大学附属安宁市第一人民医院。
• The three campuses are connected by the city's public transport network, with Chenggong linked to the old city by the metro lines that serve the university town.三个校区由城市公共交通网络相连，呈贡校区通过服务大学城的地铁线路与老城区连通。
• More than 730,000 square metres of buildings house the 30 schools, the library, the design and research institutes and the laboratories that support the university's accredited engineering programmes.超过 73 万平方米的校舍容纳 30 个学院、图书馆、设计研究院以及支撑工程教育认证专业的各类实验室。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed KUST in the 401-500 band in 2026.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将昆明理工大学列入第 401-500 名区间。
• U.S. News ranked it 1,043rd in its 2026-2027 global table, and the university did not enter the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027 or the QS World University Rankings 2027.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度全球榜单中将其列为第 1043 名，学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• Its national key discipline in non-ferrous metallurgy reflects a specialism that runs from the tin and copper industry of Yunnan through to vacuum metallurgy research.其国家重点学科有色金属冶金，对应着从云南锡铜产业延伸到真空冶金研究的专长。
• In early 2015, during an inspection tour of Yunnan, Xi Jinping described the university as a famous university in China, a remark the institution now cites in its own profile.2015 年初视察云南时，习近平称学校为「全国著名高校」，这一评价此后被学校写入自身简介。
• In 2013 the Ministry of Science and Technology approved KUST as one of the first 18 innovation talent training demonstration bases in the country.2013 年，科技部批准昆明理工大学为全国首批 18 家创新人才培养示范基地之一。
• In February 2019 the Ministry of Education named it one of the first bases for the transformation and transfer of scientific and technological achievements.2019 年 2 月，教育部认定学校为首批高等学校科技成果转化和技术转移基地之一。
• Six disciplines in the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators, led by engineering and materials, underpin its position as the strongest research university in Yunnan after Yunnan University.工程学与材料科学领衔的 6 个 ESI 前 1% 学科，支撑其作为云南仅次于云南大学的科研强校地位。
• In 2017 it was named among the first group of universities reforming innovation and entrepreneurship education, and it was also listed that year for typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship.2017 年学校入选全国首批深化创新创业教育改革示范高校，同年又入选全国创新创业典型经验高校。
• Admission to the 111 Programme in 2021 gave the university national support for recruiting foreign experts into its priority disciplines.2021 年入选「111 计划」，使学校在优先发展学科引进外国专家方面获得国家支持。

Student life

• The motto is a four-part Chinese phrase usually rendered as illuminating virtue, bearing responsibility, seeking knowledge and putting it into practice.校训为「明德任责，致知力行」八字。
• The university's declared tradition is one of hard struggle and practical realism, a pair of phrases that appear on campus alongside the motto.学校标举的传统是「艰苦奋斗，求真务实」，这八个字与校训一同出现在校园中。
• Its stated spirit is to be rooted in the red earth, attached to the non-ferrous metals industry, resilient and loyal to the country.学校精神表述为「根植红土，情系有色，坚韧不拔，赤诚报国」。
• A school ethos of diligence and reform, a teaching ethos of expertise and care, and a learning ethos of diligence, breadth, practice and innovation are published alongside the motto.与校训并列发布的还有「励精图治，求实奋进」的校风、「德高业精，教书育人」的教风，以及「勤奋，博学，实践，创新」的学风。
• Medical students rotate through ten affiliated hospitals, three teaching hospitals and one internship hospital, so clinical training takes place across Yunnan rather than on one site.医学生要在 10 所附属医院、3 所教学医院与 1 所实习医院轮转，临床训练因此遍布云南各地而非集中于一处。
• The university is authorised to recruit international students for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and it offers Chinese language training to prepare them for degree study.学校获准招收本科、硕士与博士层次的国际学生，并开设汉语培训为其学位学习做准备。
• It reports exchange relations with nearly 70 universities in about 30 countries, and it is a member of the SAP University Alliances programme.学校与约 30 个国家的近 70 所高校建立了交流关系，并是 SAP 大学联盟成员。
• In 2021 the university was named among the first batch of Yunnan universities piloting comprehensive reform of school sports.2021 年，学校入选云南省第一批学校体育综合改革试点高校。

Notable people

• Zhang Guocheng, a rare-earth metallurgy specialist and graduate of the institute, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.稀土冶金专家、该校毕业生张国成当选中国工程院院士。
• Dai Yongnian, a professor at the university and a specialist in vacuum metallurgy of non-ferrous metals, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.该校教授、有色金属真空冶金专家戴永年是中国工程院院士。
• Peng Jinhui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a former president of KUST, later served as head of the organisation department of the Chongqing municipal party committee.中国工程院院士、昆明理工大学原校长彭金辉，后任重庆市委组织部部长。
• Ji Weizhi, director of the university's Institute of Primate Translational Medicine, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.该校灵长类转化医学研究院院长季维智是中国科学院院士。
• Wang Xiji, a specialist in satellite and re-entry technology honoured for the Two Bombs, One Satellite programme, is counted among the university's distinguished figures.卫星与返回技术专家、两弹一星功勋奖章获得者王希季，被列为学校的杰出人物之一。
• Xu Zuyao, a materials scientist and educator, was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.材料科学家、教育家徐祖耀当选中国科学院院士。
• Li Menggeng, a tin metallurgy specialist, is credited with founding the modern fire-refining technique for tin and with inventing the continuous spiral crystalliser.锡冶金专家李梦庚被誉为现代锡冶金火法精炼技术的奠基人，并发明了连续螺旋结晶机。
• Luo Jianchuan, an alumnus, served as executive director and president of the Aluminium Corporation of China.校友罗建川曾任中国铝业执行董事、总裁。
• Ao Hong, another alumnus, served as deputy party secretary and vice-general manager of the Aluminium Corporation of China and as president of Chalco.另一位校友敖宏曾任中国铝业集团党组副书记、副总经理，并任中铝股份总裁。
• Kou Wei, an alumnus, became general manager of China Datang Corporation and a member of the 19th Central Committee as an alternate.校友寇伟任中国大唐集团公司总经理，并为中共十九届中央候补委员。
• Long Qian, who taught at Kunming Institute of Technology and served as its vice-president, was secretary to Zhou Enlai and later director of the National Museum of China.曾在昆明工学院任教并任副院长的龙潜，曾任周恩来秘书，后任中国历史博物馆馆长。
• He Tianchun, an alumnus, served as director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education and as president of Yunnan University.校友何天淳曾任云南省教育厅厅长与云南大学校长。