University of Science and Technology of China
#132
QS World University Rankings 2026
64.2
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#132
QS World University Rankings 2026
#133
QS World University Rankings 2025
64.2
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 57.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #188
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 50.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #248
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 98.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #56
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 99.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #30
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 14.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 7.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 13.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 74.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #457
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 42.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #410
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 55.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #596
About University of Science and Technology of China
University of Science and Technology of China shows research through schools and current work
The University of Science and Technology of China places research beside its schools, campus services, and university news. This structure helps a reader move from a broad scientific interest to a more specific academic home. A school page can show the formal setting, while a research story can show a problem, instrument, or experimental approach. The two should be read together rather than treated as the same evidence. A central page may establish the university context, but it rarely explains every group's current work. For a focused comparison, use it to find the school or laboratory that names the question being investigated and the people attached to it.
The public research material includes examples from automated chemistry and quantum computing. These examples are useful because they show different research shapes. Automated chemistry combines laboratory work, systems design, and repeated experimentation. Quantum computing can involve physical devices, computation, control, and theoretical models. Neither example means that all work at the university follows one method or belongs to one field. Instead, they show why a useful research note should name the actual object under study. A label such as automation or quantum science only becomes informative when the relevant page explains what the team measures, builds, models, or tests.
Research stories can reveal methods without defining an entire university
The University of Science and Technology of China research page describes laboratory teams using automation to support chemical discovery and describes work on programmable quantum systems. Read these as evidence of named projects, not as a shortcut to a universal conclusion. A project story often highlights a result because it is easy to explain publicly. The details needed for a research comparison may sit elsewhere, such as on a school page, a laboratory page, a faculty profile, or a publication record. Follow the story until the research setting explains its material, data, equipment, or conceptual problem in enough detail to distinguish it from similar work elsewhere.
This matters when fields overlap. A computing question can be pursued through algorithms, physical hardware, engineering systems, or scientific instrumentation. A chemistry question can involve molecular design, automation, materials, or environmental analysis. The same general term can therefore lead to very different academic environments. Keep a record of the route taken: the initial news item, the school or unit it points toward, and the local page that clarifies the approach. If the route stops at a headline, mark it as an early clue instead of treating it as verified research connection. That restraint makes later comparison more accurate.
Compare USTC through the work that can be checked locally
For the University of Science and Technology of China, begin a comparison by writing one research question in concrete terms. It might concern a chemical process, a computational method, a physical system, a material, or a scientific instrument. Next, identify the school or research setting closest to that object. Look for a page that says what the researchers do and how they approach it. The clearest evidence may describe experiments, modeling, device development, data analysis, or collaboration across specialties. It is stronger than a wide statement that an institution covers science and technology because it can be tested against the public description of actual work.
A final note should keep changing information separate from durable context. A research story may remain useful after the specific project evolves, because it shows the kind of question that was made visible. It should not be used to assume that a team, tool, or topic remains unchanged. Mark the item for a later check and look for newer material from the closest unit. This leaves room for a precise, honest comparison: the university offers a route through schools and research news, while the final judgement depends on the local group, the research object, and the method that can still be verified.
Institution record
- Country
- China (Mainland)
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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