University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
中国科学院大学 | |||||||||||
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| Motto | 博學篤志，格物明德 | ||||||||||
| Type | Public university | ||||||||||
| Established | 2012 | ||||||||||
Parent institution | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||||||
| President | Li Shushen | ||||||||||
Academic staff | 15,950 (2020) | ||||||||||
| Students | 57,651 (2020) | ||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 1,645 (2020) | ||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 54,255 (2020) | ||||||||||
| Location | , China | ||||||||||
| Campus | Multiple sites | ||||||||||
| Colours | Blue | ||||||||||
| Affiliations | BHUA, APRU | ||||||||||
| Website | ucas.ac.cn english | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 中国科学院大学 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國科學院大學 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 国科大 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 國科大 | ||||||||||
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The University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS; 中国科学院大学) is a public university headquartered in Shijingshan, Beijing, China. It is owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction.
UCAS also has colleges and schools nationwide co-existed and co-located with the CAS institutes, usually by adding extra nameplates to the institutes.
Established in 1978 as the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China, the institution is the first graduate school in China. It produced the first doctoral graduate in science, the first doctoral graduate in engineering, the first female doctoral graduate, and the first graduate with dual doctorate in China. The USTC Graduate School (Beijing) was renamed as the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000, and became an independent legal entity as the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. In 2014, UCAS began to recruit undergraduate students.