University of Science and Technology of China

The University of Science and Technology of China is a public research university in Hefei, Anhui Province, administered directly by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1958 and ranked 134th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 63.9中国科学技术大学（University of Science and Technology of China，简称中科大或中国科大）是位于安徽省合肥市的公立研究型大学，由中国科学院直接管理，创办于 1958 年，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第一百三十四名，总分 63.9 分。

It is one of the nine universities of the C9 League and the only mainland institution selected in the first round of the Double First Class initiative in 2017 and retained in 2022, and in the fourth round of the Ministry of Education's subject evaluation seven of its disciplines were rated A+, the highest grade学校是九校联盟成员之一，也是 2017 年首轮「双一流」建设高校中唯一入选的中国内地高校，2022 年第二轮继续入选；在教育部第四轮学科评估中，学校有七个学科获评 A+，为最高等级。

It had 55 academicians among its staff as of December 2023 and 34 colleges including eight that integrate teaching with research, and it is one of only two mainland universities that run two national laboratories of their own截至 2023 年 12 月，学校拥有两院院士 55 人，设有 34 个学院（其中含 8 个科教融合学院），并是中国内地仅有的两所同时运行两个国家级实验室的高校之一。

History

• In early 1958 scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, among them Qian Xuesen and Hua Luogeng, proposed creating a new type of socialist university built on the academy's research strength, with the whole academy running the university and institutes combined with departments, after the vice-president Zhang Jinfu applied to the central government in May 1958 and Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yun and Deng Xiaoping agreed1958 年初，中国科学院的科学家钱学森、华罗庚等提出以中科院科研力量为基础、「全院办校、所系结合」的方式创办一所新型社会主义大学；同年 5 月，中科院副院长张劲夫代表科学院向中央提出申请，刘少奇、周恩来、陈云、邓小平表示赞成。

• The preparatory committee, whose members included Guo Moruo, Zhu Kezhen, Wu Youxun, Yan Jici and Qian Xuesen, met for the first time on 8 June 1958, fixed the name on a sheet in Guo Moruo's handwriting, and planned twelve departments oriented towards atomic nuclear physics and engineering, technical physics, chemical physics, radio electronics, automation, mechanics, radiochemistry, geochemistry, polymer chemistry, applied mathematics and biophysics筹备委员会成员包括郭沫若、竺可桢、吴有训、严济慈与钱学森等人，于 1958 年 6 月 8 日召开第一次会议，以郭沫若手书确定了校名，并规划了原子核物理与原子核工程、技术物理、化学物理、无线电电子学、自动化、力学、放射化学、地球化学、高分子化学、应用数学与计算技术、生物物理等十二个系。

• The founding and opening ceremony was held on 20 September 1958 at 19 Yuquan Road in western Beijing, and the People's Daily described the following day as a major event in the history of Chinese education and science1958 年 9 月 20 日，学校在北京西郊玉泉路 19 号举行成立暨开学典礼；次日《人民日报》称其为「我国教育史和科学史的一项重大事件」。

• The university was named one of sixteen national key universities in 1959, at which point it was the youngest of them, and the China Scientific Information University merged into it that August to form a department of scientific information, while Guo Moruo delivered the speech Diligent Study, Red and Expert Together on the anniversary1959 年，学校被列为全国十六所重点大学之一，也是其中最年轻的一所；同年 8 月中国科学情报大学并入，成立科学情报系；校庆之际郭沫若发表了《勤奋学习，红专并进》的演讲。

• Its first commencement was held on 14 July 1963 attended by the vice-premier Chen Yi, the marshal Nie Rongzhen and the president Guo Moruo, and in 1964 the twelve departments were reduced to six, as mathematics, physics, modern chemistry, modern physics, modern mechanics and radio electronics1963 年 7 月 14 日，学校举行首届毕业典礼，副总理陈毅、聂荣臻与校长郭沫若出席；1964 年学科调整，十二个系简并为数学系、物理系、近代化学系、近代物理系、近代力学系与无线电电子学系六个系。

• The undergraduate course was extended to five years in 1966 and enrolment was suspended as the Cultural Revolution began, and in December 1969 the university was forced to leave Beijing, changing its proposed site twice before settling on Hefei in Anhui Province, with the move largely completed in October 1970 after the loss of most of its books, equipment and staff, leaving fewer than a hundred teachers for a time1966 年本科学制改为五年，文化大革命开始后停止招生；1969 年 12 月学校被迫迁出北京，选址两度变更后最终定在安徽省合肥市，至 1970 年 10 月基本完成搬迁；搬迁中图书、器材与教员流失大半，教师一度不足百人。

• Several hundred graduates of the years 1967 to 1970 were selected from around the country in 1975 to return for training and to replenish the teaching staff, and by the end of 1977 the faculty had reached 1,1571975 年，学校从全国范围挑选三百多名 1967 至 1970 届毕业生回校培训以补充师资，至 1977 年底全校教师已达 1,157 人。

• In March 1978 the Special Class for Gifted Young was founded on the suggestion of Tsung-Dao Lee with the support of Deng Xiaoping, admitting twenty-one children under twelve in its first intake, and that same year the first graduate school on the mainland after the Cultural Revolution was established in Beijing under the university's administration, taking 107 students in its first cohort1978 年 3 月，在李政道建议、邓小平支持下，学校创办少年班，首期招收二十一名不满十二岁的少儿大学生；同年，中国大陆文革后第一个研究生院在北京设立，由中国科技大学代为管理，首批录取 107 名研究生。

• The first president Guo Moruo died in 1978 and Yan Jici, a pioneer of modern Chinese physics, became the second president in 1980 with the motto Create a University of Global Renown and Nurture Talent from Around the World, while in 1983 the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory was approved to be established on the university campus, the first national laboratory run by a university首任校长郭沫若于 1978 年去世，中国现代物理研究先驱严济慈于 1980 年出任第二任校长，提出「创寰宇学府，育天下英才」的办学目标；1983 年，国家同步辐射实验室获批在科大设立，这是第一个由高校运行的国家实验室。

• With the support of Deng Xiaoping the university was approved in 1984 as one of the ten institutions designated for national key construction during the Seventh Five-Year Plan, and in December 1986 more than four thousand students took to the streets demanding democratic elections, with the president Guan Weiyan, the vice-president Fang Lizhi and the chemistry department head Wen Yuankai speaking in support, before Fang was expelled from the Party in January 1987在邓小平支持下，学校于 1984 年获国务院批准成为「七五」期间国家重点建设的十所高校之一；1986 年 12 月，四千余名学生上街要求民主选举，校长管惟炎、副校长方励之与化学系主任温元凯公开支持，1987 年 1 月方励之被开除党籍。

• Construction of the new campus that became the western campus began in 1986 and it opened in 1994, and in December 1999 the Hefei University of Technology merged into the university on a whole-institution basis, though it was abolished after 2003 and its staff absorbed into other departments作为日后西校区的新校区于 1986 年动工，1994 年启用；1999 年 12 月，合肥经济技术学院整建制并入中国科大，该学院在 2003 年后被撤销，师资并入其他专业。

• The university joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Knowledge Innovation Programme in 1998, which is treated as the start of its third entrepreneurial phase, and in 2008 it held its fiftieth anniversary, when China Post issued a commemorative stamp, the first ever for a fiftieth anniversary of a university, and the minor planet 19298 was named Chinese University of Science and Technology Star1998 年，学校加入中国科学院「知识创新工程」，被视为其「第三次创业」的起点；2008 年学校举行五十周年纪念大会，中国邮政发行建校五十周年纪念邮票——这是首次为名校五十周年发行纪念邮票，小行星 19298 亦被命名为「中国科大星」。

• The university was selected into the first round of the Double First Class initiative in September 2017 and retained in the second round in February 2022, with eleven disciplines placed on the list of world-class disciplines, and in February 2023 it decided to establish a future technology school in Shanghai学校于 2017 年 9 月首轮入选「双一流」建设高校 A 类，2022 年 2 月在第二轮名单中继续入选，共有 11 个学科入选世界一流学科建设名单；2023 年 2 月，学校确定建设中国科大未来技术学院（上海）。

Academics

• The university has thirty-four colleges, including the School of the Special Class for Gifted Young, the Schools of Mathematical Sciences, Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science, Engineering Science, Earth and Space Sciences, Environmental Science and Nuclear Science and Technology, together with eight colleges that integrate teaching with research in environmental science and optoelectronics, materials science and engineering, astronomy and space science, nanotechnology and nanobionics, applied chemistry and engineering, biomedical engineering in Suzhou, energy science and technology, and rare earths学校设有三十四个学院，包括少年班学院、数学科学学院、物理学院、化学与材料科学学院、工程科学学院、地球和空间科学学院、环境学院、核科学技术学院，以及环境科学与光电技术、材料科学与工程、天文与空间科学、纳米技术与纳米仿生、应用化学与工程、生物医学工程（苏州）、能源科学与技术、稀土等八个科教融合学院。

• The university's thirteen national research platforms include the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, the State Key Laboratory of Fire Safety, the Precision Intelligent Chemistry Key Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Detection and Nuclear Electronics, the National Engineering Research Center of Speech and Language Information Processing, the CAS Quantum Information and Quantum Innovation Institute and the National High Performance Computing Center in Hefei学校拥有十三个国家级科研平台，包括国家同步辐射实验室、合肥微尺度物质科学国家研究中心、火灾安全全国重点实验室、精准智能化学全国重点实验室、核探测与核电子学国家重点实验室、语音及语言信息处理国家工程研究中心、中国科学院量子信息与量子科技创新研究院与国家高性能计算中心（合肥）等。

• As of December 2023 it employed 2,995 teaching and research staff, including 1,055 professors and 1,092 associate professors, and counted 55 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 17 members of the academies of sciences of the developing world, 115 national distinguished young scholars, 108 excellent young scholars and 51 Changjiang Scholars截至 2023 年 12 月，学校拥有教学与科研人员 2,995 人，其中教授 1,055 人、副教授 1,092 人；拥有两院院士 55 人、发展中国家科学院院士 17 人、国家杰青 115 人、优青 108 人、长江学者（含青年）51 人。

• Its high-level talent totals 708 people, or 44.7 per cent of the permanent teaching staff, with the remainder consisting of academicians, national talent programme awardees, Changjiang Scholars and national teaching masters学校高层次人才（两院院士、国家级人才计划入选者、长江学者、百人计划与国家级教学名师等）不重复统计共 708 人，占固定教师总数的 44.7%。

• In the fourth round of the Ministry of Education subject evaluation, published in 2017, all of its basic sciences disciplines were rated in the top five per cent of the country, with seven disciplines rated A+ in the top two per cent, namely physics, chemistry, astronomy, geophysics, the history of science and technology, nuclear science and technology, and safety science and engineering在教育部 2017 年发布的第四轮学科评估中，中科大的理学基础学科全部进入全国前 5%，其中物理学、化学、天文学、地球物理学、科学技术史、核科学与技术、安全科学与工程共七个学科获评 A+（前 2%）。

• Its library system spans the east, west and central campuses, with the western campus library completed in 1997 having served as the main library and been the tallest building in that part of the campus学校图书馆体系横跨东、西、中三个校区，西区图书馆建于 1997 年，曾作为总馆使用，也是西区当时最高的建筑。

• Among its national laboratories, the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory approved in 1983 was the first national laboratory run by a Chinese university, and the Hefei national research centre for physical sciences at the microscale makes it one of only two mainland universities to operate two national laboratories在学校拥有的国家级实验室中，1983 年获批的国家同步辐射实验室是中国首个由高校运行的国家实验室；而合肥微尺度物质科学国家研究中心的存在，使中科大成为中国内地仅有的同时运行两个国家实验室的两所高校之一。

• The university runs the First Affiliated Hospital, together with institutes in Suzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, and its research spin-offs include iFlytek and QuantumCTek, both of which listed on public markets学校运营附属第一医院，并在苏州、上海、北京设有研究院；其科研成果转化企业包括科大讯飞与国盾量子，两者均已在公开市场上市。

• Its 2024 education and research budget was 8.352 billion yuan, among the largest of any university in the country, and it publishes the Cellular and Molecular Immunology, the Journal of Education and Modernization, the Journal of Experimental Mechanics and the Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics学校 2024 年教育与科技预算支出为 83.52 亿元，居全国高校前列；学校出版的期刊包括《细胞与分子免疫学》《教育与现代化》《实验力学》与《中国化学物理》等。

• Since its first graduating class of 1963, seventy-two of its graduates had been elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering by 2017, with roughly one academician for every thousand undergraduates, and more than 130 academicians have taught or held posts at the university自 1963 年首届毕业生起，至 2017 年已有 72 名毕业生当选两院院士，本科生约每千人产生 1 名院士；此外，曾在科大兼职任教的两院院士超过 130 人。

• Between 2007 and February 2017 its SCI and SSCI papers had the highest citation rate per paper of any mainland Chinese university, its field-weighted citation impact led the country for successive years, and all of its main disciplines ranked within the top one per cent of the Essential Science Indicators2007 年至 2017 年 2 月间，学校发表 SCI 与 SSCI 论文的篇均被引数在中国内地高校中排名第一，标准化科研论文影响力连续多年全国第一，所有主干学科全部进入 ESI 前 1%。

Campus

• The university has six campuses, of which the eastern campus at 96 Jinzhai Road in the Baohe district is the original site occupied after the move from Beijing in 1970, the western campus at 443 Huangshan Road began in 1986 and houses the information and engineering colleges, the southern campus stands at 1129 Huizhou Avenue, the northern campus at 242 Huangshan Road, the central campus at 150 Huangshan Road was added in 2012 on land transferred by the Hefei municipal government, and the high-tech campus at 100 Fuxing Road opened its first phase in September 2021学校共有六个校区：位于包河区金寨路 96 号的东校区是 1970 年自北京迁入时的老校区；位于黄山路 443 号的西校区 1986 年始建，以信息与工程类院系为主；南校区位于徽州大道 1129 号，北校区位于黄山路 242 号；中校区位于黄山路 150 号，由合肥市政府于 2012 年划拨原合肥学院北校区教学区土地而成，连接东西校区；高新区校区位于复兴路 100 号，其一期于 2021 年 9 月启用。

• The campus covers 1.45 million square metres and the eastern, western, southern and northern campuses are linked by free shuttle buses that students and staff ride on their cards校园总面积为 145 万平方米，东、西、南、北四个校区之间有校园巴士接驳，师生刷一卡通免费乘坐。

• Yuquan North Road and Sakura Avenue continue the name of the old street in Beijing where the university was founded, and form the main route from the first teaching building to the old north gate, lined with late-blooming Japanese cherry trees玉泉北路与樱花大道沿用学校在北京创办时的旧地名玉泉路，是从第一教学楼通往老北门的主干道，两侧种植日本晚樱。

• The lecture hall on the water, the oldest surviving hall on the campus, hosted a lecture by Stephen Hawking in 1985 and now also serves as the offices of the alumni association水上报告厅是科大现存最古老的报告厅，1985 年史蒂芬·霍金曾在此演讲，如今亦为校友总会的办公地点。

• Tian Shi Road takes its name from the grey magpies that gather on the scholar trees in front of the School of the Special Class for Gifted Young, and the Four Gates blocks refer to halls 222, 223, 230 and 231 in the southwest of the eastern campus, built in the 1970s天使路得名于少年班学院楼前国槐上大量聚集的灰喜鹊，与之交叉的勤奋路则是谐音命名；四牌楼则是东校区西南侧 222、223、230、231 四栋宿舍楼的统称，建于二十世纪七十年代。

• The main campus lies in the Baohe district rather than the centre of Hefei and adjoins the First Affiliated Hospital and the higher education park, and together with the high-tech campus, the advanced technology institute and the hospital it forms a campus-hospital-city pattern主校区位于合肥市包河区而非市中心，紧邻中科大附属第一医院与高教园区；与高新校区、先进技术研究院及附属医院共同构成「校—院—城」格局。

Reputation

• The university placed 134th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 63.9, while the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2027 placed it joint 51st in the world with an overall score of 76.3, ranking third in China mainland after Peking University and Tsinghua University学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第一百三十四名，总分 63.9 分；在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中以总分 76.3 分并列全球第五十一位，是中国内地第三位，仅次于北京大学与清华大学。

• It ranked thirty-ninth in the world in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of Academic Universities with a score of 35.8 and seventh in the ShanghaiRanking of Chinese universities, and US News placed it fifty-ninth globally and thirteenth in Asia in its 2026 Best Global Universities edition在软科 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，学校以 35.8 分列全球第三十九位，在软科中国大学榜中列第七；在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 年全球最佳大学排名中，学校列全球第五十九位、亚洲第十三位。

• Between 2007 and February 2017 its papers had the highest citation rate per article of any mainland Chinese university, and in the Nature Index ranking of research leaders for 2025 it was first in China, first in the Asia-Pacific region and second in the world behind only Harvard University.2007 年至 2017 年 2 月间，学校论文篇均被引数在中国内地高校中排名第一；在 2025 年自然指数研究 leaders 榜中，学校居中国第一、亚太第一、全球第二，仅次于哈佛大学。

• Its strongest fields include quantum information, where the team of Pan Jianwei launched the Micius satellite in 2016 and built the Jiuzhang photonic prototype that demonstrated quantum computational advantage on 4 December 2020, synchrotron radiation and nuclear science, where it runs the first national laboratory run by a university, and fire science学校的优势学科包括量子信息——潘建伟团队于 2016 年发射「墨子号」卫星，2020 年 12 月 4 日建成达成量子计算优越性的「九章」原型机；同步辐射与核科学——学校运行着中国首个由高校运营的国家实验室；以及火灾科学。

• In the Nature Index 2025 ranking of research leaders it was first in China, first in the Asia-Pacific region and second in the world, behind only Harvard University, and in the 2025 high-impact research performance index it ranked fifty-ninth in the world, third in the natural sciences and eighth in engineering在自然指数 2025 年研究leaders 榜中，学校居中国第一、亚太第一、全球第二，仅次于哈佛大学；在 2025 年高被引/论文绩效榜中，学校列全球第五十九位，自然科学第三、工程第八。

• It was selected into the first round of the Double First Class initiative in 2017 and retained in the second round in 2022, with eleven disciplines on the world-class discipline list, and it is one of the nine universities of the C9 League学校于 2017 年首轮入选「双一流」建设高校 A 类，2022 年第二轮继续入选，共有 11 个学科入选世界一流学科建设名单；同时学校是九校联盟成员之一。

• Pan Jianwei, a vice-president of the university and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences elected in 2011, was chief scientist of the Micius satellite and of the Jiuzhang prototype, received the 2017 Future Science Prize in physical science with Lu Chaoyang, was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in May 2024 and was elected an academician in 2011, though he has not received a Nobel Prize, which is a claim often repeated incorrectly潘建伟是学校常务副校长、2011 年当选的中国科学院院士，「墨子号」卫星与「九章」原型的首席科学家，2017 年与陆朝阳共同获得未来科学大奖物质科学奖，2024 年 5 月当选英国皇家学会外籍院士；但他从未获得诺贝尔奖——这是一个常见的误传。

• The university holds fifty-five academicians among its staff as of December 2023 and has produced seventy-two academician graduates, and among the international distinctions of its faculty and alumni the highest are the 2017 Future Science Prize, the 2016 annual figure in China and the reform pioneer award of the fortieth anniversary of reform and opening up in 2018截至 2023 年 12 月，学校拥有两院院士 55 人，培养出 72 名院士毕业生；在其教职与校友所获国际荣誉中，最高的是 2017 年未来科学大奖、2016 年感动中国年度人物以及 2018 年改革开放四十周年「改革先锋」称号。

• In the ARWU subject ranking of 2024 seven of its disciplines entered the global top twenty, seventeen entered the top fifty and twenty-one entered the top hundred, which reflects the concentration of its strength in the sciences在软科 2024 年全球学科排名中，学校有七个学科进入世界前 20、十七个学科进入前 50、二十一个学科进入前 100，反映出其优势高度集中于理科。

Student life

• The university's motto is Red and Expert Together, Theory and Practice in Unity, which comes from the words of the school song, was voiced in a speech by Guo Moruo at the anniversary in September 1959 and by the honorary president Yan Jici at the thirtieth anniversary in September 1988, and was formally confirmed as the motto in 2003学校校训为「红专并进，理实交融」，取自校歌歌词；1959 年 9 月校庆时郭沫若在《勤奋学习，红专并进》演讲中提出，1988 年 9 月名誉校长严济慈在建校三十周年讲话中重申「勤奋学习，理实交融，红专并进」，2003 年由党委书记正式确认。

• The school song is Eternal Wind of the East, with lyrics written by Guo Moruo before the university was founded and revised by Zhou Enlai, and music composed by Lü Ji学校校歌为《永恒的东风》，由郭沫若在建校前作词并经周恩来修改，吕骥作曲。

• The colours are a dark blue, number 034EA2, chosen to match the main colour of the Chinese Academy of Sciences emblem, and the seal is a five-petalled plum blossom framing an open book and a rocket, carrying the Chinese name, the abbreviation USTC and the year 1958学校校色为深蓝色（#034EA2），与中国科学院院徽主色一致；校徽为五瓣梅花外框，内含打开的书本与火箭主体，并嵌有「中国科大」「USTC」与「1958」字样。

• The foundation day is 20 September, the date of the founding and opening ceremony in 1958, and the fiftieth anniversary was marked on the same day in 2008 by a commemorative assembly, a commemorative stamp and the naming of a minor planet学校的建校纪念日是 9 月 20 日，即 1958 年成立暨开学典礼之日；2008 年同一天，学校以纪念大会、纪念邮票与小行星命名三种方式庆祝五十周年。

• The university runs no residential college system in the British sense, and instead provides a special class for gifted young together with a dormitory system across its five campuses, linked by free shuttle buses, while its exceptional education programme comprises the Special Class for Gifted Young founded in 1978, the teaching reform pilot class of 1985 and the innovation pilot class of 2010学校不设英式住宿学院制，而是以少年班学院配合五校区宿舍体系运营，各校区之间有免费校园巴士接驳；其超常教育体系由 1978 年创办的少年班、1985 年的教学改革试点班与 2010 年的创新试点班组成。

• The Special Class for Gifted Young admits about forty students a year, and by 2017 the class and the teaching reform pilot class together had enrolled 2,412 students and graduated 1,879少年班每年招收约四十人；截至 2017 年，少年班与教学改革试点班累计招收 2,412 人，毕业 1,879 人。

• The Hanhai Xingyun bulletin board system is one of the earliest official bulletin boards run by a Chinese university and one of the first in the country to adopt real-name registration, with a board for every department and faculty, and the Feiyue board, used for applications to study abroad, becomes a place where students display their admission offers each season瀚海星云是中国科大官方公告系统，也是中国教育网内较早开办的高校官方 BBS 之一与较早实行实名制的 BBS 之一，各部门院系均设板块；用于出国交流的「飞跃」板块每到申请季便成为学生展示录取结果的地方。

• Students run close to ninety clubs including the choir, the Microsoft Technical Club, the Linux Users Association and the amateur radio society, and among their traditions are the K-star campus singer competition, Girls' Day and a See You graduation event学生社团近九十个，包括学生合唱团、微软技术俱乐部、Linux 用户协会与学生业余无线电协会等；校园传统活动包括 K-star 校园歌手大赛、女生节「美丽邂逅」与毕业纪念活动「See You」。

• The university pioneered the Undergraduate Research Plan in 1999, with about seven hundred projects a year and some forty-five per cent of undergraduates taking part, of whom fifteen per cent publish results, and about thirty per cent of each graduating class goes abroad, the highest share of any mainland university, while roughly half proceed to graduate study at home学校于 1999 年全面推行本科生「大学生研究计划」，每年约七百项，约百分之四十五的本科生参与，其中百分之十五发表成果；每届毕业生约百分之三十出国，为中国内地高校之首，约百分之五十在国内攻读研究生。

• A hidden subsidy scheme gives students who eat in the dining halls more than sixty times a month an average of under 4.0 yuan for men or 3.7 yuan for women a monthly grant of 160 yuan, benefiting about four hundred people each month and being extended nationwide by the Ministry of Education from 2013学校设有「隐形资助」：每月在食堂就餐六十次以上、平均每餐男生低于 4.0 元或女生低于 3.7 元者，每月补助 160 元，每月约四百人受益；该机制自 2013 年起由教育部向全国推广。

• Its campus culture is popularly summed up as diligence, innovation and integrity, with the saying that people go to Tsinghua to get rich and Peking to get poor but go to USTC ready to risk their lives, which is affectionate rather than critical学校的校园文化被公认为「勤奋、创新、诚信」，师生间流传的顺口溜是「穷清华、富北大、不要命的上科大」，这句调侃中更多是亲近而非批评。

Notable people

• Guo Moruo, the first president from September 1958 until his death in June 1978, was president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a poet, historian and archaeologist, who wrote the name of the university in his own hand and wrote the lyrics of the school song1958 年 9 月至 1978 年 6 月任首任校长的郭沫若，是中国科学院院长、诗人、史学家与考古学家，学校校名由他手书，校歌歌词亦出自他手。

• Yu Wen was the first party secretary of the university, and Zhu Kezhen, then vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a pioneering meteorologist and educator, served on the preparatory committee that fixed the name and the twelve departments in June 1958郁文是学校首任党委书记；竺可桢时任中国科学院副院长，是著名气象学家与教育家，他参与了 1958 年 6 月确定校名与十二个系设置的筹备委员会工作。

• Qian Xuesen, who proposed in 1958 that a new university be built on the strength of the academy and served on the preparatory committee, created the institute of mechanics and the department of modern mechanics, and was named a Two Bombs One Satellite meritorious researcher in 1999, should be described as a founding advocate and early head of department rather than as a member of staff in the strict sense钱学森于 1958 年提出以中科院力量创办新型大学并任筹备委员会成员，他创建了力学研究所与近代力学系，1999 年被授予「两弹一星」元勋称号；他的身份宜表述为创办倡导者兼早期系主任，而非严格意义上的在编教师。

• Zhao Zhongyao, the first head of the department of modern physics, was a pioneer of modern Chinese particle physics and one of the earliest in the world to identify the positron, while Guo Yonghuai, head of the department of chemical physics, was named a Two Bombs One Satellite meritorious researcher and died in a plane crash in 1968近代物理系首任系主任赵忠尧是中国现代粒子物理先驱，也是世界上最早发现正电子者之一；化学物理系系主任郭永怀同为「两弹一星」元勋，1968 年在空难中殉职。

• Hua Luogeng, head of the mathematics department and a vice-president, was a pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics, and Yan Jici, president from 1980 to 1984 and honorary president from 1998 to 2008, was a pioneer of modern Chinese physical research, after whom the Yan Jici Class of Physics Talents is named数学系系主任、副校长华罗庚是中国现代数学研究先驱；1980 年至 1984 年任校长、1998 年至 2008 年任名誉校长的严济慈，是中国现代物理研究先驱，「严济慈物理英才班」即以其命名。

• Tsung-Dao Lee, who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, suggested founding the Special Class for Gifted Young in 1978 with the support of Deng Xiaoping, but was neither a member of staff nor an alumnus of the university1957 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主李政道于 1978 年在邓小平支持下建议创办中科大少年班；他既非该校教职，也非该校校友。

• Zhang Yaqin, who entered in the first year of the special class in 1978, took his bachelor's and master's degrees here in 1983 and 1985, became president of Baidu from 2014 and had earlier led Microsoft Research Asia1978 年入读首届少年班的张亚勤于 1983 年与 1985 年先后取得学校电子工程学士与硕士学位，2014 年起出任百度总裁，此前曾领导微软亚洲研究院。

• Zhuang Xiaowei, who entered in the special class in 1987, is a professor of chemistry, chemical biology and physics at Harvard University, a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship1987 年入读少年班的庄小威是哈佛大学化学、化学生物学与物理学教授，美国国家科学院与美国文理科学院双院士，并获麦克阿瑟学者奖。

• Cao Yuan, who entered the special class in 2010, was named the Nature Person of the Year for 2018, the first Chinese scientist so honoured, and took his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020 for his work on transport in two-dimensional materials2010 级少年班学生曹原被评为 2018 年《自然》年度科学人物，是首位获此称号的中国科学家；他于 2020 年在麻省理工学院取得博士学位，研究方向为二维材料中的输运。

• Du Jiangfeng, who entered the special class in 1985 and returned to teach at his alma mater, was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 and received the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 20121985 级少年班学生杜江峰毕业后来到母校任教，2015 年当选中国科学院院士，并于 2012 年获国家自然科学奖二等奖。

• Yang Yuanqing, chairman of the Lenovo Group, is an alumnus, as are Zeng Liqun of the eighty-first class, now a professor at Stanford University and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and Shao Zhong of the eighty-eighth class, a professor of computer science at Yale联想集团董事长杨元庆是该校校友；此外还有八一级少年班校友骆利群，现为斯坦福大学教授、美国国家科学院院士，以及八八级少年班校友邵中，耶鲁大学计算机科学教授。

• Zhou Guangzhao, a theoretical physicist who served as a vice-chairman of the National People's Congress, was honorary president of the university from August 1998 until his death in 2024著名理论物理学家、全国人大常委会副委员长周光召，于 1998 年 8 月至 2024 年去世前担任学校名誉校长。

• Pan Jianwei, an academician elected in 2011 and a vice-president of the university, took his bachelor's and master's degrees here before a doctorate at the University of Vienna, and was chief scientist of the Micius satellite launched in 2016 and of the Jiuzhang photonic prototype that achieved quantum computational advantage in 20202011 年当选的院士、学校常务副校长潘建伟在此取得学士与硕士学位，后于维也纳大学获博士学位；他是 2016 年发射的「墨子号」卫星与 2020 年实现量子计算优越性的「九章」原型的首席科学家。