Qingdao University of Science & Technology

Qingdao University of Science & Technology (QUST) is a key university of Shandong Province and has been approved to build it a special elite university for cultivating applied and basic talents with the approval of the province. It is a multi-disciplinary university which focuses on engineering, coordinately develops with science, engineering, art, economic, management, medicine and law, and distinguishes itself by material science, chemical engineering, applied chemistry, mechanical engineering, automation, and information technology and computer science. QUST grew out of Shenyang Advanced Vocational School founded in 1950, and moved to Qingdao in 1956. In 1958, QUST was upgraded to Shandong Institute of Chemical Engineering under the approval of the People’s Government of Shandong Province and began to conduct higher education formally. It was renamed Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology under the approval of the Ministry of Education (MOE) in 1984. In 1998, QUST was handed over to Shandong Province from Ministry of Chemistry (MCI), jointly managed by the central and local government with the local government shouldering the primary managing responsibility. In 2002, approved by MOE, QUST was renamed Qingdao University of Science and Technology after merging Qingdao Arts and Crafts School of Shandong Province.