Hunan University of Science & Technology (HNUST) () is an institution of higher learning in
Xiangtan
Xiangtan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, ...
,
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...
of China, under the jointly jurisdiction of central government and provincial government, and is mainly administered by Hunan Province. HNUST is listed in the “Domestic First-Class Universities” of Hunan Province.
History
Hunan University of Science & Technology (HNUST), which evolves from Northern Hunan Construction College founded in 1949 and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Xiangtan Institute of Technology and Xiangtan Normal University.
Rankings and Reputation
As of 2021, Hunan University of Science and Technology was ranked 688th by
SCImago Institutions Rankings
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CWTS Leiden Ranking
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ranked Hunan University of Science and Technology 1013th in the world based on their publications for the period 2017–202020. The ''
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2021'' by
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ranked the university among the top 1000 leading research institutions globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science.
Overall, Hunan University of Science and Technology was ranked in the top 1050 universities in the world by several international rankings including the
CWTS Leiden Ranking
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and
SCImago Institutions Rankings
The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) since 2009 has published its international ranking of worldwide research institutions, the SIR World Report. The SIR World Report is the work of the SCImago Research Group,