The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB; Chinese: 北京科技大学), formerly known as Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (北京钢铁学院) before 1988, is a national key university in Haidian District, Beijing, China. USTB’s metallurgy and materials science programmes are highly regarded in China. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university, identified by the Ministry of Education of China.
Schools
The University has large departments in physics, chemistry, engineering, economics, and English. One of the largest departments is the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The University has about 20,000 undergraduate students and about 2,000 PhD and graduate students. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has about 500 students in the undergraduate program and about 200 students in various graduate and PhD programs. The department has about 60 professors of which many have built their scientific career in the United States, Germany, and the UK. Owing to its origin as a former iron and steel university the university has one of the strongest departments in the field of materials science with strong international visibility and reputation particularly in the field of physical metallurgy and metal physics of the microstructures of structural and functional materials.
Schools
- School of Civil and Resources Engineering
- School of Energy and Environment
- School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- School of Mechanical Engineering
- School of Automation and Electrical Engineering
- School of Computer and Communication Engineering
- Dongling School of Economics and Management
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Duoism Institute
- School of Mathematics and Physics
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- School of Foreign Studies
- School of Marxism
- Tianjin School
- Graduate School