University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, commonly abbreviated UCAS and known in Chinese as Guokeda, is a public university in Beijing that is owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is mainly devoted to graduate education.中国科学院大学，简称国科大，是一所隶属中国科学院、以研究生教育为主的北京公立大学。

Its predecessor, the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China, was founded in Beijing in 1978 as the first graduate school in mainland China, and it produced the country's first doctoral graduate in science, the first in engineering, the first female doctoral graduate and the first holder of a dual doctorate.其前身中国科学技术大学研究生院于 1978 年在北京创办，是中国大陆第一所研究生院，培养了中国大陆第一位理学博士、第一位工学博士、第一位女博士与第一位双学位博士。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings UCAS is placed 360th, it is not listed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it stands 53rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it does not appear in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex credits it with 394,472 research works and 31,333,600 citations.国科大在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 360，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名榜单，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 53，也未进入软科 2026 世界大学学术排名主榜，OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 394,472 项、累计被引 31,333,600 次。

History

• In 1951 the Chinese Academy of Sciences recruited graduate students for the first time, beginning a tradition of research training that later became the foundation of the university.1951 年，中国科学院首次招收研究生，开启了此后成为该校根基的研究生培养传统。

• In 1955 the State Council formally adopted the provisional regulations on graduate students of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a step regarded as the establishment of China's graduate education system.1955 年，国务院正式通过《中国科学院研究生暂行条例》，此举被视为中国研究生制度的建立。

• In 1977 the Chinese Academy of Sciences was among the first institutions in the country to restore the recruitment of graduate students after the Cultural Revolution.1977 年，中国科学院率先在全国恢复研究生招生制度。

• In 1978 the Chinese Academy of Sciences founded the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China in Beijing, the first graduate school in mainland China, with Yan Jici as its first dean.1978 年，中国科学院在北京成立中国大陆第一所研究生院即中国科学技术大学研究生院，严济慈出任首任院长。

• On 6 February 1982 the academy held China's first doctoral dissertation defence, that of Ma Zhongqi, a graduate student at the Institute of High Energy Physics.1982 年 2 月 6 日，中国科学院举行中国首次博士学位论文答辩，答辩人为高能物理研究所研究生马中骐。

• The institution produced China's first doctoral graduate in the sciences, its first doctoral graduate in engineering, its first female doctoral graduate and its first graduate holding two doctorates.该校培养了中国大陆第一位理学博士、第一位工学博士、第一位女博士，以及第一位获得双博士学位的毕业生。

• In 1986 the Beijing-based school was renamed the University of Science and Technology of China Graduate School in Beijing, after the university opened a second graduate school on its main campus in Hefei.1986 年，因中国科学技术大学在其合肥校本部另建研究生院，位于北京的该校更名为中国科学技术大学研究生院（北京）。

• In 1998, on the twentieth anniversary of the school, then Chinese president Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription urging it to revitalise the country through science and education and to value the cultivation of talented people.1998 年建校二十周年之际，时任中国国家主席江泽民题词，勉励学校以科教兴国、重视人才培养。

• In 2000 the school was renamed the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Bai Chunli serving as its dean.2000 年，该校更名为中国科学院研究生院，白春礼任院长。

• In 2005 the official English name of the institution was changed from Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.2005 年，学校的官方英文名称由中国科学院研究生院变更为中国科学院研究生院大学。

• In 2012 the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was renamed the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Bai Chunli as its first president under the new name.2012 年，中国科学院研究生院更名为中国科学院大学，白春礼出任更名后的首任校长。

• In 2014 UCAS began to recruit undergraduate students, completing its system of higher education, and in the same year it opened a department of philosophy.2014 年，国科大开始招收本科生，标志着该校形成了完整的高等教育体系，同年还新开设了哲学系。

• On 7 November 2014 the university officially took part in the activities of the C9 League, an alliance of elite Chinese universities, although it was not a formal member of that league.2014 年 11 月 7 日，该校正式参加中国顶尖高校联盟 C9 的活动，但并非该联盟的正式成员。

• In 2015 the university enrolled 44,464 graduate students alongside 664 undergraduate students, reflecting its long-standing orientation towards postgraduate training.2015 年，该校在校研究生达 44,464 人，本科生仅 664 人，体现出其长期以研究生培养为主的办学取向。

• In 2017 UCAS joined the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, and in the same year it was ranked first among Chinese graduate schools in both the sciences and engineering.2017 年，国科大加入环太平洋大学联盟，并在当年的中国一流研究生院排名中，理学与工学两大学科均位列第一。

• In 2020 UCAS opened the Hua Luogeng experimental class in mathematics and the Guo Yonghuai experimental class in mechanics, and the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was established on its basis.2020 年，国科大开设“华罗庚数学实验班”与“郭永怀力学实验班”，并依托国科大建立中国科学院哲学研究所。

• Asteroid 189018 Guokeda was named in honour of the university, with the official naming citation published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018.小行星 189018“国科大”以该校命名，其正式命名公告由国际小行星中心于 2018 年 9 月 25 日发布。

• In 2025 the university expanded its undergraduate intake, moved undergraduate teaching to the Yanqi Lake campus and introduced a combined bachelor-to-doctorate training scheme.2025 年，该校扩大本科生招生规模，将本科办学地点迁至雁栖湖校区，并实行本科至博士贯通培养模式。

Academics

• UCAS holds 26 first-level doctoral degree authorisation points, 114 second-level doctoral points and 130 second-level master's points, and may award degrees in nine broad fields.国科大拥有一级学科博士学位授权点 26 个、二级学科博士学位授权点 114 个、二级学科硕士学位授权点 130 个，可授予九个学科门类的学位。

• The nine degree fields are philosophy, economics, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management, and the university also offers professional degrees in engineering and business administration.这九个学科门类为哲学、经济学、教育学、文学、理学、工学、农学、医学与管理学，此外该校还设有工程硕士与工商管理硕士等专业学位授权点。

• The university operates 102 postdoctoral research stations, and its teaching staff combines full-time teachers hired by the education bases with researchers drawn from the institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.该校设有 102 个博士后科研流动站，其师资由各教育基地招聘的专职教师与来自中国科学院各研究所的科研人员共同组成。

• More than 340 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, along with about 6,100 doctoral supervisors and more than 3,900 master's supervisors, take part in training students.340 余位中国科学院与中国工程院院士，以及约 6,100 名博士生导师与 3,900 余名硕士生导师参与学生培养。

• Research training is supported by four national laboratories, 30 national major science and technology infrastructure facilities, 84 national key laboratories and 163 key laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.科研训练依托 4 个国家实验室、30 个国家重大科技基础设施、84 个国家重点实验室与 163 个中国科学院重点实验室。

• By 2014 the university had produced about 110,000 graduated research students, and most of its students carry out their thesis work in more than one hundred institutes of the academy.截至 2014 年，该校已培养出约 110,000 名毕业研究生，大多数学生在遍布全国的研究所中完成课题与学位论文。

• Undergraduate teaching began in September 2014 in six disciplines, namely mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, materials and computer science, and later grew to include astronomy, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.本科教学于 2014 年 9 月在数学、物理、化学、生命科学、材料与计算机六个学科启动，此后又扩展到天文学、人工智能与网络空间安全等专业。

• Academic organisation includes the School of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physics, School of Astronomy and Space Science, College of Engineering Science and the School of Artificial Intelligence.学术组织包括数学科学学院、物理学院、天文与空间科学学院、工程科学学院以及人工智能学院。

• Other units include the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology, the College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the College of Resources and Environment and the College of Life Sciences.其他单位还包括化学科学学院、材料科学与光电技术学院、地球与行星科学学院、资源与环境学院与生命科学学院。

• The university also includes the School of Medicine, the School of Computer Science and Technology, the School of Cyber Security, the School of Microelectronics and the School of Economics and Management.该校还设有医学院、计算机科学与技术学院、网络空间安全学院、微电子学院以及经济与管理学院。

• In the humanities and social sciences UCAS has the School of Public Policy and Management, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of Foreign Languages and the International College.在人文社会科学方面，国科大设有公共政策与管理学院、人文与社会科学学院、外语系以及国际学院。

• International and interdisciplinary units include the Sino-Danish College with the Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences and the Tsung-Dao Lee Center of Sciences and Arts.国际与跨学科机构包括中丹学院、卡弗里理论科学研究所与李政道科学与艺术中心。

• The university offers international students master's and doctoral programmes as well as programmes for regular visiting students and senior visiting students across many fields of research.该校为国际学生提供硕士与博士项目，以及普通访问学者与高级访问学者项目，覆盖众多研究领域。

• Teaching is organised in two stages, with graduate students first spending about a year on theory at the Beijing headquarters before returning to institutes in more than twenty provinces for their research.教学实行两段式安排，研究生先在北京本部进行约一年的理论课程学习，然后回到分布在全国二十余个省区市的研究所开展课题研究。

• In 2017 the university was ranked first in China in both the sciences and engineering among graduate schools, and it is a member of the Double First-Class University Plan.2017 年，该校在理学与工学两个学科的中国一流研究生院排名中均居首位，同时入选国家“双一流”建设高校名单。

Campus

• UCAS has four campuses in Beijing, at Yuquan Road, Zhongguancun, Yanqi Lake and the Olympic Village, together with five graduate education bases outside the city, which is why it is called a university without walls.国科大在北京拥有玉泉路、中关村、雁栖湖与奥运村四个校区，并在京外设有五个研究生教育基地，因此有“没有围墙的大学”之称。

• The Yuquan Road campus, the earliest campus, adjoins the Institute of High Energy Physics, covers 118,347 square metres and largely occupies the old site of the University of Science and Technology of China founded in 1958.玉泉路校区是国科大最早的校区，毗邻高能物理研究所，面积为 118,347 平方米，校址基本延续 1958 年成立的中国科学技术大学老校址。

• The landmark of the Yuquan Road campus is its auditorium, a mainly wooden building that seats about 800 people and where cultural events and lectures are held, and whose construction date was recently established as 1951.玉泉路校区的标志性建筑是大礼堂，主体为木质结构，可容纳约 800 名师生，是举办文艺活动与报告之地，其确切建造年份据口述历史还原为 1951 年。

• The Zhongguancun campus adjoins the basic science park of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is surrounded by institutes of physics, chemistry, mathematics and information science, and its youth apartments house senior graduate students.中关村校区毗邻中国科学院基础科学园区，周边聚集着物理、化学、数学与信息科学领域的众多研究所，校内的青年公寓是高年级研究生最主要的居住地。

• The Yanqi Lake campus is the newest and largest campus, comprising east and west sections with a total area of 3,121,383 square metres and now forming part of the Huairou Science City.雁栖湖校区是国科大最新且面积最大的校区，由东、西两个校区组成，总面积达 3,121,383 平方米，现为怀柔科学城的一部分。

• Construction of the Yanqi Lake campus began with a foundation stone laid on 2 December 2006 and formal work starting on 28 October 2009, the west section opened in September 2013 and the whole campus was completed in 2015.雁栖湖校区于 2006 年 12 月 2 日奠基，2009 年 10 月 28 日正式开工建设，西区于 2013 年 9 月投入使用，至 2015 年全部落成。

• The Yanqi Lake dormitories are arranged as suite-like flats each combining a private single room with shared living room, bathroom and shower, though some single rooms were converted to doubles after 2017.雁栖湖校区的学生宿舍为“单间加客厅”的套间式建筑，每名学生拥有独立房间，客厅、卫生间与浴室公用，2017 年 9 月起部分单人间因扩招改为双人间。

• The Olympic Village campus, also called the CAS Science Park for Life, Astronomy and Earth Sciences, hosts senior students in life sciences, astronomy, earth sciences, resources and the environment.奥运村校区又称中国科学院天地生科学园区，主要聚集了生命、天文、地学、资源与环境等领域的高年级学生。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings UCAS is placed 360th, while it does not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，国科大位列第 360，但未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名榜单。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the university stands 53rd, and it does not appear in the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 53；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中则未进入主榜。

• UCAS ranked 41st in the CWUR World University Rankings 2026, placing it third in China behind only Tsinghua University and Peking University, after 46th in the 2025 edition.国科大在 2026 年 CWUR 世界大学排名中位列第 41，为中国第三名，仅次于清华大学与北京大学，此前在 2025 年版中排名第 46。

• In the Nature Index 2023 the university was the number one university in China and the Asia Pacific region and second in the world among global universities, after Harvard University.在 2023 年自然指数中，该校是中国及亚太地区排名第一的大学，在全球大学中位列第二，仅次于哈佛大学。

• The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 placed UCAS 12th in the world on the strength of its scientific publications between 2020 and 2023.莱顿大学科学技术研究中心 2025 年排名依据 2020 至 2023 年的科研论文，将国科大列为全球第 12。

• As of 2025 the U.S. News and World Report Best Global University Ranking placed UCAS 54th globally, ninth in Asia and fifth in China, with many of its subjects inside the global top hundred.截至 2025 年，《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名将国科大列为全球第 54、亚洲第 9、中国第 5，其众多学科进入全球前一百。

• In the 2022 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings the university was placed in the 71-80 band globally and ranked eighth among Chinese universities.在 2022 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学声誉排名中，该校位居全球 71 至 80 区间，在中国高校中排名第八。

• The NTU Ranking placed UCAS 18th in the world in 2019, first among Chinese universities, reflecting the strength of its research output.在 2019 年南洋理工大学排名中，国科大名列全球第 18，在中国高校中居首，体现出其科研产出的实力。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 394,472 research works attracting 31,333,600 citations, and its faculty are drawn from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, long ranked first among research institutions worldwide.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 394,472 项研究成果，累计被引 31,333,600 次，其师资来自长期位居全球研究机构之首的中国科学院。

Student life

• Graduate students spend their first year on theory at the Beijing headquarters and then return to institutes in more than twenty provinces, so campus life alternates between dense coursework and laboratory research.研究生先在北京本部完成一年的理论学习，随后回到分布在全国二十余个省区市的研究所，因此校园生活随理论学习与实验室研究的交替而变化。

• The university has a long tradition of New Year galas, and as early as 2007 it linked its Yuquan Road auditorium with eight Hong Kong institutions for a cross-city new year celebration using live video technology.该校有举办元旦晚会的传统，早在 2007 年就曾以玉泉路礼堂为主会场，联合香港八所高校，借网络视频技术举办两地新年联欢会，是国内首次以此技术举办的文艺活动。

• The programme Bringing Fine Arts to Campus invites conservatories and art academies such as the China Conservatory of Music, the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts and the Beijing Dance Academy to perform regularly.“高雅艺术进校园”活动邀请中国音乐学院、中国戏曲学院、中央音乐学院与北京舞蹈学院等院校定期来校演出，以丰富学生文化生活并提升艺术修养。

• The campus culture and arts festival has been held for more than thirteen editions and traditionally includes calligraphy and photography competitions, song and dance galas and a table-tennis invitational tournament.校园文化艺术节迄今已举办十三届以上，传统上包括书画摄影大赛、文艺汇演以及乒乓球邀请赛等活动。

• The China Science and Humanities Forum was founded in April 2003 on the initiative of Lu Yongxiang and Zheng Bijian, and by its 159th session it had hosted leaders, scholars and entrepreneurs from China and abroad.“中国科学与人文论坛”于 2003 年 4 月由路甬祥与郑必坚倡导创办，至第 159 场时已邀请众多中外政要、学者与企业家与会。

• Guest speakers at the forum have included the Nobel laureates Yang Zhenning, Ding Zhaozhong and Spencer, the entrepreneurs Liu Chuanzhi, Ma Yun and Kai-Fu Lee, and former leaders George H. W. Bush and Lee Kuan Yew.论坛曾邀请诺贝尔奖得主杨振宁、丁肇中与斯宾塞，企业家柳传志、马云与李开复，以及美国前总统乔治·布什与新加坡资政李光耀等嘉宾。

• Student life is documented in the student union song I Want a Happy Future, written and composed by students, which debuted at the eleventh arts festival in May 2012 as the first song to record campus life at the institution.学生会之歌《我想要幸福的未来》由学生原创词曲，于 2012 年 5 月第十一届文化艺术节首演，是该校首次以歌曲形式记录校园生活。

• The university also produces films and broadcasts for prospective students, including the recruitment video Meeting UCAS, Meeting Your Incredible Future, released on 9 April 2015.该校还制作面向考生的宣传影像，包括 2015 年 4 月 9 日推出的本科招生宣传片《遇见国科大 遇见未来不可思议的自己》。

Notable people

• Its first dean Yan Jici was a physicist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who led the graduate school from 1978 to 1985.首任院长严济慈是物理学家、中国科学院院士，自 1978 年至 1985 年主持研究生院工作。

• Bai Chunli, an academician and chemist, served as dean and then as president of the university until 2014, and afterwards became its honorary president.院士与化学家白春礼先后担任院长与校长直至 2014 年，此后成为该校名誉校长。

• Later presidents include Ding Zhongli, a geologist, who led the university from 2014 to 2018, Li Shushen from 2018 to 2023, and Zhou Qi, who has served since May 2023.此后的校长包括地质学家丁仲礼，于 2014 年至 2018 年任职，李树深于 2018 年至 2023 年任职，周琪则自 2023 年 5 月起任职。

• Ma Zhongqi, a graduate student at the Institute of High Energy Physics, defended China's first doctoral dissertation in 1982 and is counted among the university's first doctoral graduates.高能物理研究所研究生马中骐于 1982 年完成中国首次博士学位论文答辩，被视为该校首批博士毕业生之一。

• Lu Yongxiang, a mechanical engineer and academician who headed the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed the university motto in 2003 and co-founded the China Science and Humanities Forum.机械工程专家、中国科学院院士路甬祥于 2003 年提议确定校训，并共同倡议创办中国科学与人文论坛。

• Zheng Bijian, a theorist who wrote the name of the forum in calligraphy, co-initiated that forum together with Lu Yongxiang and the publisher Higher Education Press.理论家郑必坚为论坛题写名称，并与路甬祥及高等教育出版社共同发起该论坛。

• Among the leading scholars associated with the university is the Nobel laureate Yang Zhenning, who has lectured at its forum and is linked to the Tsung-Dao Lee Center of Sciences and Arts.与该校相关的知名学者包括诺贝尔奖得主杨振宁，他曾在论坛发表演讲，并与李政道科学与艺术中心有所关联。

• Ding Zhaozhong, a Nobel laureate in physics, and the entrepreneurs Liu Chuanzhi and Ma Yun have spoken at the university's forum as invited guests.诺贝尔物理学奖得主丁肇中，以及企业家柳传志与马云，都曾作为受邀嘉宾在该校论坛发表演讲。

• Guo Moruo, the first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote the characters of the academy that ring the university emblem, and the emblem depicts six crystals forming a material structure.中国科学院首任院长郭沫若题写了环绕校徽的院名，校徽中部由六个晶体组成一个物质结构图案。

• The namesakes of its experimental classes are the mathematician Hua Luogeng and the mechanic Guo Yonghuai, both celebrated Chinese scientists honoured by the university's special programmes.其两个实验班分别以数学家华罗庚与力学家郭永怀命名，两位均为受该校特殊项目致敬的著名中国科学家。