Located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province and the largest city in central China, Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST) is a local high-level university jointly established by the People's Government of Hubei Province and the Ministry of Education of PRC. It is also co-established by the People's Government of Hubei Province. It has been accredited as the key university to launch the national Double First-Class Initiative of Hubei Province. It has been nominated by the Ministry of Education of PRC as a National Exemplary University for Reform in Undergraduate Training for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Base for Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements and Technology Transfer as well as an Innovation Talent Training Demonstration Base by the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is also designated as a Pilot University for Intellectual Property by the National Intellectual Property Administration and a Double Innovation Demonstration Base and Exemplary Base for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hubei Province.

WUST dates back to Hubeigongyi Xuetang (Hubei Technical School) founded in 1898 by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), then Governor-General of the Hu-Guang Regions in China’s late Qing Dynasty. It began offering undergraduate degrees in 1958 upon the establishment of Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute, its forerunner in the modern times. In 1978 and 1998, it 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 People’s Provincial Government for administration. Over the past hundred years, WUST has cultivated more than 250,000 specialists of all kinds for the country and society. A large number of outstanding alumni have grown into academicians, experts and scholars, party and government leaders, and heads of large iron and steel enterprises. WUST is thus known as a "cradle of high-profile talents for China’s metallurgical industry”.

WUST has three campuses distributed throughout Wuhan, including two in the vicinity of the Yangtze River and a lake, which has earned itself a reputation as an ecological garden-like school in Hubei Province and national model unit for afforestation. WUST’s campuses cover an area of about 1.71 million square meters (423 acres), including a floor space of over 1.29 million square meters (319 acres) for academic and administrative use, with the fixed assets of 3.31 billion yuan and the teaching and research equipment of 918 million yuan in total. The university houses 2.86 million volumes of books and 1.04 million e-books in two main libraries and their branches, a state-of–art information system, and modern facilities in support of the academic and research activities on campus.

WUST claims traditional strengths in engineering and sciences, which are integrated with contemporary popular disciplines such as management, medicine, humanities, economics, law, philosophy, and art. For over 35, 000 full-time students (including over 25,000 undergraduates and over 10,000 postgraduates) hosted by 22 schools, WUST now offers a wealth of programs spanning across a broad range of disciplines.

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