University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

• School of Mathematical Sciences
• School of Physics
• School of Astronomy and Space Science
• College of Engineering Science
• School of Artificial Intelligence
• School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
• College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology
• College of Earth Sciences
• College of Resources and Environment
• College of Life Sciences
• Savaid Medical School
• School of Computer Science and Technology
• School of Cyber Security
• School of Electronic, Electric and Communication Engineering
• School of Microelectronics
• School of Economics and Management
• School of Public Policy and Management
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Department of Foreign Languages
• Sino-Danish College / Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research
• International College
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences
• Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science
• CAS Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management
• CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics
• Center of Architecture Research and Design
• Research Center for Innovation Method
• Training Center

Founded in 1978, UCAS is the first graduate school in China with the ratification of the State Council. Backed by more than 110 institutes of the CAS, which are located at more than 20 cities all over the country, UCAS is headquartered in Beijing with 4 campuses, and 5 branches in Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Lanzhou. From UCAS, graduated China's first doctoral student in science, first doctoral student in engineering, first female doctoral student and first student with double doctoral degrees in China. On the 20th anniversary of UCAS in 1998, Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Jiang Zemin of the People's Republic of China wrote this inscription for the University: "Revitalizing China through science and education, and emphasizing the cultivation and nurturing of talented people." By 2004, 50,000 graduate students had graduated from UCAS, among whom there are nearly 20,000 PhD. students..

UCAS offers programs in nine major academic fields: science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, philosophy, economics, literature, linguistics, education and management science. The university is authorized to grant advanced degrees in 26 primary academic disciplines which include master's degree conferring rights in 130 secondary disciplines, and Doctoral degree rights in 114 secondary disciplines.

UCAS was the first university in China to start the master's degree program in English Applied Linguistics (with reference to TESOL in foreign countries). Since 1978, the program has educated more than 100 English teachers who are now working at various universities and graduate schools. UCAS has the leading position in English teaching and researching in China. Back in 1993, there were four teachers, who were also the UCAS graduates, joined the national team to set up China's first English Curriculum for Non-English Majored MS and PhD Students, issued by Chinese Commission of Education and published by Chongqing University Press.

The faculty of the university is composed of over 300 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and/or the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

UCAS offers "General Scholarship for Graduate Students", "CAS Scholarship", "CAS President Scholarship" and various other sponsored scholarships. The financial aid system of "research assistantship", "administration assistantship" and "teaching assistantship" has been put into practice in UCAS.

At present, with annual enrolments of more than 10,000 students, UCAS has over 30,000 ongoing students, among whom 51% are PhD students.

UCAS offers programs for international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It also provides financial aid for these students by setting up "UCAS International Students Scholarship" and "UCAS Scholarship for Students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan".

UCAS is ranked 84th in CWUR World University Rankings 2020-2021, placing it 3rd in China only after Peking University and Tsinghua University. UCAS is ranked 18th in NTU Rankings 2019, placing it 1st in China.[3]

In the Nature Index 2020 Annual Tables by Nature Research, UCAS ranks 15th globally, 7th in Asia Pacific, and 6th in China (behind Chinese Academy of Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nanjing University).[5]

UCAS ranks 64th globally, 24th in Asia, and 19th in the mainland China according to the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2020 based on the number of their scientific publications in the period 2015–2018.[6]

In 2020, UCAS is ranked 197th globally, 24th in Asia and 9th in China by the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking, with its "Agricultural Science", "Biology and Biochemistry", "Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology", "Cell Biology", "Chemical Engineering", "Chemistry", "Energy and Fuels", "Engineering", "Environment/Ecology", "Geoscience", "Material Science", "Mechanical Engineering", "Microbiology", "Molecular Biology and Genetics", "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" "Pharmacology and Toxicology", and " plant and animal science" subjects, placed in the global top 100.[7]

UCAS faculty are all based upon the research professors in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has been consistently ranked the No. 1 research institute in the world by Nature Index since its inception in 2016, by Nature Research.[8] This makes UCAS arguably the best graduate school in China and one of the best in the world.[9]

• Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research
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• University of Copenhagen
• Aarhus University
• Aalborg University
• University of Southern Denmark
• Roskilde University
• IT University of Copenhagen
• Copenhagen Business School

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