East China University of science and technology Technology, abbreviated as "ECUST", located in Shanghai, is a national key university with science and engineering characteristics directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China, covering 11 disciplines of science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, economics, management, literature, law, art, philosophy and education. It is a national "world-class discipline construction university" and a national "211 Project" and "985 project advantage school" It is a member of the National Symposium on science and technology work of 16 key engineering universities and the high-quality resource sharing alliance of high-level industry characteristic universities. It has been selected into the national public postgraduate project of building high-level universities, the innovation ability improvement plan of colleges and universities, the education and training plan of outstanding engineers, the discipline innovation talent introduction plan of colleges and universities, and the new engineering research and practice Project, double ten thousand plan, national innovative experiment plan for college students, national innovation and entrepreneurship training plan for college students, national model universities of deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and receiving universities of Chinese government scholarship for international students in China.East China University of science and technology, formerly known as East China Institute of chemical technology, was established in 1952 by the chemical engineering departments of Jiaotong University, Sinian University, Datong University, Soochow University and Jiangnan University, and changed its current name in 1993. In 1956, it was designated as one of the first batch of graduate schools in China; in 1960, it was designated as a national key university directly under the Ministry of education; in 1996, it became a key construction University of the national "211 Project".As of January 2020, the university has three campuses, Xuhui, Fengxian and Jinshan, covering a total area of 2535 mu, with a total construction area of 960000 square meters; it has 20 colleges, with 72 undergraduate majors; it has 13 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 83 second-class discipline doctoral programs, 29 first-class discipline master programs, 129 second-class discipline master programs, and 16 professional degree master programs; and it has full-time academic programs There are more than 26000 students, more than 3100 teaching staff and 3.43 million books in the library.