History

Current Position: Home -> About -> History

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)