Type Public Chancellor Li Ming Academic staff 200 Province Guangdong Province President Chen Shiyi | Established 2009 (opened 2011) Provost Wu Chuanyue Students 1,231(2014) Phone +86 755 8801 0000 | |
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Address 1088 Xueyuan Ave, Nanshan Qu, Shenzhen Shi, Guangdong Sheng, China, 518055 Endowment 12.3 million JPY (Statistics by July,4th,2014) Similar Peking University Shenzhe, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Polytechnic, University of Science and Tech, South China University | ||
south university of science and technology of china
South University of Science and Technology (SUSTC (now named SUSTech) simplified Chinese: 南方科技大学; traditional Chinese: 南方科技大學; pinyin: Nánfāng Kējì Dàxué) is a public research university in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The University changed its name to Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) after 2016. According to the Chinese Ministry of Education, SUSTech is a platform to experiment Chinese higher education reform. The governments of the city of Shenzhen and Guangdong province are also investing heavily in SUSTech. Thus far, SUSTech has 12 departments, 17 academic programs and 26 research centres.
Despite being a public university, SUSTech is administrated by the government of Guangdong province instead of the Chinese Ministry of Education.