Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST), located in Kunming, Yunnan Province, southwest of China, was founded on the 1st of September, 1954. As one of the key universities in Yunnan province, KUST plays an important role in the field of the non-ferrous metals industry in China and makes major contributions to regional, economic, and social development. Several subjects of KUST were listed in the top 1% in ESI, including Engineering, Material Science, Chemistry, Environment/Ecology, Botany and Zoology, Agricultural Science, and Clinical Medicine.

KUST has 1 academic division, 27 faculties, 7 research institutes, 9 affiliated hospitals, 10 teaching and internship hospitals, 3 bases for applied talent training, and graduate schools. Furthermore, KUST has 4,149 staff members, including 1,363 professors and associate professors. 112 people are granted national talent titles, such as “academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering,” “Changjiang scholar,” “Distinguished Young Scholar,” “leading talent of science and technology in Yunnan Province,” and “Yunling Scholar.” 737 people own other provincial- and ministerial-level talent titles.

Currently, KUST is home to 5,034 students (including 671 overseas students), and among them, there are 33,527 undergraduate students (including 254 overseas students), and 16,017 graduate students (including 417 overseas students).

Based on its distinctive disciplines and unique location, KUST keeps strengthening international cooperation and communication. As of now, it has signed cooperation agreements with 110 colleges, universities, and research institutions in 36 countries and regions and built a Confucius Institute with Souphanouvong University in Laos. It is the leading university in the cooperation between universities in Yunnan province and Thailand and has set up 3 colleges in Thailand. It is listed as the new base for the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities. The foreign experts in KUST have won the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award and the Friendship Award issued by the Chinese government. Now it has played a unique and important role in cultivating engineers and talented managers and offering international technical transfer for neighbouring countries, as well as establishing high-level cooperation on research and communication between teachers and students in developed countries.