The University dates back to Hubei Gongyixuetang (Hubei Technical School) founded in 1898 by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), viceroy of Huguang Province in China’s late Qing Dynasty. It began offering undergraduate degrees in 1958 upon the establishment of Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute, the University’s forerunner in the modern times. In 1978 and 1998, WUST was authorized by China’s State Council to confer its first master’s and doctoral degrees, respectively. In 1995 the institution was granted university status and renamed Wuhan Yejin(metallurgical) University of Science and Technology when Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute merged with two other colleges also based in Wuhan and existing under the then Ministry of Metallurgy of PRC. The University acquired its current name—Wuhan University of Science and Technology—in 1999 following its handover from China’s Ministry of Metallurgy to the local Hubei Provincial Government for administration.
A portrait of Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909)
Hubei Gongyixuetang (Hubei Technical School) founded in 1898 by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), Viceroy of Huguang Province in China’s late Qing Dynasty
Establishment of Wuhan Iron and Steel Institutein 1958
Establishment of Wuhan University of Science and Technology in 1999
Time | WUST | WAC | WYMC |
1898 | Hubei Technical Institute | ||
1907 | Hubei Secondary Industrial School | ||
1913 | Hubei Class A Industial School | ||
1922 | Hubei Industial Senior High School | ||
1927 | No. 2 Provincial Senior High School, No. 3 Provincial Senior High School | ||
1935 | Hanyang Industrial Senior High School | ||
1949 | Wuchang Industrial Senior High School | ||
1953 | Central South Iron and Steel Industrial School | ||
1954 | Wuchang Iron and Steel Industrial School | Wuchang Architecture and Industrial School | |
1958 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Hubei Junior College of Metallurgical Sciences and Technology | |
1960 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Hubei Junior College of Metallurgical Sciences and Technology | Wugang Medical College |
1961 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Hubei Junior College of Metallurgical Sciences and Technology | Wugang Medical College |
1963 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Wuhan Yejin Junior College | Wuhan Yejin Medical School |
1965 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Wuhan Yejin Junior College | Wuhan Yejin Medical College |
1979 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | No. 2 Technical School of PLA Capital Construction Engineering Corps | Wuhan Yejin Medical College |
1983 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Wuhan Yejin Architecture College | Wuhan Yejin Medical College |
1993 | Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute | Wuhan Architecture College | Wuhan Yejin Medical College |
1995 | Wuhan Yejin University of Science and Technology An amalgamation of the former Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute, Wuhan Architecture College(WAC), and Wuhan Yejin Medical College(WYMC) | ||
1999 | Wuhan University of Science and Technology(WUST) | ||
