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About Changchun

Changchun University of Science and Technology (CUST) is located in Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province of China. Changchun city stands at the central part of Northeast China. In history, it’s the last emperor, Pu Yi's "Royal Capital. Now, it has been turned into a beautiful, prosperous, open and internationalized city, known as the "Spring City of Northland ". It covers a total area of 20,604 square kilometres, a population of over 4 million. Changchun people are kind, friendly and helpful, and thus also called by the media as the most humane city in China.

Changchun is the cradle of the country’s auto, film, optics, biological pharmaceuticals and rail car industry, known as the "City of Automobile ", "City of Film". Due to its green-space ratio of 78% in the urban area, it enjoys a reputation of "Asian Forest City". It has a climate with four distinct seasons. Summer, air is fresh, with tree-lined avenues, and in Winter, snow-covered branches of trees look like nectar and jade.

Changchun is one of the cities where the citizens speak the most standard Mandarin in accent and intonation. Thus, it is the most favorable place for international students to learn Putonghua in China. The living cost here is low, which offers an ideal place for international students to study and live in.

About CUST

Changchun University of Science and Technology is a university founded in 1958 by Chinese Academy of Sciences. Through years, it has developed into a provincial key university in Jilin province with Optoelectronic technology as its outstanding feature,   integrating Optics, Mechanics, Electronics, Computer and Material Science as its superiority and coordinately developing in the fields of Arts, Economics, Management and Law. It has been widely acknowledged as “the Cradle for Chinese Optical Talents”.Currently, there are 18 schools and teaching institutions, 60 undergraduate programs, 100 graduate programs, and 32 doctoral programs. Holding a leading position in China, the potential research fields cover the aspects of laser technology, optoelectronic instruments, measurement techniques, advanced manufacturing technology, optoelectronic medical instruments and nanometer manufacturing. In December 2019, there were 16,158 undergraduates, 3,980 postgraduates and 550 doctoral candidates. Changchun University of Science and Technology attached great importance to international exchange and cooperation by successively creating international links with universities and research institutes from more than 20 countries. It has a Confucius Institute in Russia as one of 20 lists of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Chinese-Project Universities. CUST sincerely welcomes students from all over the world and provides Chinese Government Scholarship, Jilin Province Government Scholarship, Confucius Institute Scholarship, etc. Now there are more than 300 foreign students from about 50 countries studying in CUST every year.

 

 

About SIE

The School of International Education (SIE) of CUST is an organization specially engaged in enrolling international students and in charge of the educative matters. Up to now, SIE has hosted a total number of more than 2,000 students from 98 countries around the world since its very beginning of accepting international students in 1987. At present, the total number of our international students (Chinese language students, undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral students and senior scholar,) amounts to more than 400 each year. Our college has a well-developed educational system, rich teaching experience, good environment of study and sound living conditions for international students.

The programs offered in our college are: Chinese language training courses, short-term Chinese language and culture experiencing programs, undergraduates, graduates and doctoral programs.

Sincerely welcome international students from all countries in the world to study in our university.

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