Chongqing University of Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary university mainly focusing on engineering, with distinct characteristics in petroleum and metallurgy. Its educational history can be traced back to the Chongqing Industry College and Chongqing Petroleum College, which were established in 1951 and formerly belonged to central government departments.

The university is a pilot unit of the National Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, the vice-chairman unit of the National Alliance for the Development of Postgraduate Education in Applied Universities, a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and a national typical experience university in innovation and entrepreneurship. It is also a high-level new engineering university strongly supported by Chongqing. The university began to enroll master's students in 2012 and was listed as a construction unit for doctoral degree authorization in 2021.

Located in the central area of the Western (Chongqing) Science City, the university has a beautiful campus and complete facilities for study, life, culture, sports and entertainment. The university actively serves national strategies and regional economic and social development, and jointly builds the Chongqing University of Science and Technology Smart Innovation Center with the Management Committee of Chongqing High-tech Zone. The university covers a total area of 1.6947 million square meters, with a building area of 732,500 square meters. The total value of teaching and research equipment is nearly 680 million yuan. The library has a building area of more than 40,000 square meters, with more than 2.13 million paper books, more than 2.04 million e-books, and a large number of digital information resources. The university is a garden-style unit in Chongqing and one of the first batch of civilized campuses in Chongqing.

The university currently has more than 1,900 faculty members, including more than 690 with senior professional titles and more than 840 doctors. It has flexibly introduced 3 academicians, 6 national-level talents, and more than 150 provincial and ministerial-level talents. There are more than 50 provincial and ministerial-level teaching and research teams represented by the Huang Danian-style teaching team in Chongqing universities. There are more than 24,500 full-time students, including more than 2,600 master's students. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 90% for 10 consecutive years.

The university has 19 colleges (departments, centers), including the College of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, College of Metallurgy and Power Engineering, College of Materials and New Energy, College of Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing, College of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, College of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, College of Safety Science and Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering (College of Artificial Intelligence), School of Marxism, College of Management, College of Economics and Finance, College of Mathematics and Physics, College of Foreign Languages, College of Design and Humanities, Department of Physical Education, College of Continuing Education (College of Vocational and Technical Teacher Education), College of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Engineering Training Center. It independently sets up 3 research institutes, including the Chongqing Institute of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development, Chongqing Institute of Waste-to-Energy Technology (Chongqing Institute of Resource Recycling and Carbon Neutrality Technology), and Chongqing Institute of Intelligent Mathematics and Autonomous Intelligence. It has 3 academic master's degree programs in Chemistry, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, and Intelligent Science and Technology, and 12 professional master's degree programs in Resource and Environment, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Information, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, and Public Administration. The university has built 10 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, including Petroleum Engineering, Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Inorganic Non-metallic Materials Engineering, Welding Technology and Engineering, Mechanical Design Manufacturing and Automation, Mechanical Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Engineering Management, and International Economics and Trade, and 25 provincial and ministerial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, including Offshore Oil and Gas Engineering, Metal Materials Engineering, Automation, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Civil Engineering, Safety Engineering, and Computer Science and Technology. 14 majors have passed engineering education professional certification (evaluation) and entered the "first echelon" of global engineering education.

In the selection of teaching achievement awards in the past two sessions, the university has won 2 national teaching achievement awards and 13 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. The university has built 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 4 national engineering practice education centers, and 8 municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers. It has built 11 national first-class courses and excellent courses. In the past three years, students have successively won more than 1,800 national awards in subject competitions such as the National College Students' Mathematical Modeling Competition, Electronic Design Competition, and Robot Competition. In 2015 and 2020, the university won the championship in the final of the 9th and 14th World Steelmaking Simulation Challenge respectively; in 2024, it won the team gold award and the only highest award "Excellence Cup" in the 14th China Petroleum Engineering Design Competition; students have won more than 20 national championships and runner-ups in national college students' championships such as ice hockey, volleyball, tennis, taekwondo, sports dance, cheerleading, and roller skating; since 2015, the university has ranked among the top 200 in the national ordinary university subject competition ranking for six consecutive rounds; students have been selected into the top 100 of the ten-year contribution force of the China Postgraduate Innovation and Practice Series Competitions, and postgraduates have been selected into the representative list of postgraduate national scholarship winners for two consecutive years and have been published in the People's Daily; one undergraduate has been rated as a national "moral model", a national "hero of righteousness and courage", and one of the "Top Ten People Who Moved Chongqing".

The university focuses on engineering, with the coordinated development of engineering, science, management, economics, law, literature, and art. It has prominent advantages in the fields of oil and gas exploration and green development, low-carbon metallurgy and advanced materials, and has distinct educational characteristics. It has 17 provincial and ministerial key disciplines and characteristic discipline groups, including Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, and Public Administration. The disciplines of Engineering, Materials Science, and Chemistry have entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. It has built 3 national-level platforms, including the "National Oil and Gas Geophysical Exploration Technology Innovation Center", 28 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (engineering centers), 2 academician workstations, and 1 post-doctoral research workstation.

In recent years, the university's scientific research projects and funds have both increased in quantity and quality. It has undertaken more than 180 national-level projects, including national major special projects, key research and development plans, national natural science funds, and national social science funds, and has obtained more than 1,700 authorized patents. The "R & D and Application of the Ultra-Deepwater Semi-Submersible Drilling Platform 'Haiyang Shiyou 981'" participated in by the university won the special prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. The "Key Technology and Application of Precision Welding of Aerospace Micro-Structures" led by the university won the first prize of the Chongqing Technology Invention Award, the "Key Technology and Application of Seepage State Diagnosis and Risk Prevention and Control of Dangerous Dams" and other projects won 7 first prizes of the Chongqing Science and Technology Progress Award, and the "Key Technology and Application of Mechanical Grate-Type Waste Incineration Power Generation" won the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award. In the past five years, scientific research achievements have won more than 140 scientific research awards from provincial and ministerial governments and industry associations (societies). In the Chongqing Science and Technology Awards, the number of projects led by the university and the total number of awards rank among the top universities in Chongqing.

The university actively carries out domestic and international cooperation in running schools and scientific research, and has established cooperative relations with more than 60 domestic and foreign universities, including the California Institute of Technology in the United States, Columbia University in the United States, Nagoya University in Japan, the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, Western Sydney University in Australia, the University of Florence in Italy, Tomsk State University in Russia, Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan, Chongqing University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China University of Petroleum, and Southwest Petroleum University. Relying on industry-based education, the university actively adapts to and serves the petroleum and metallurgy industries and the economic and social development of the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and has signed industry-university-research cooperation strategic agreements with more than 500 well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, including CNPC, Sinopec, CNOOC, Baowu Steel, Southwest Aluminum, China Railway Yangtze, Desheng Vanadium Titanium, SERES, and Kamantha Energy Company in the United States.

Looking ahead to the future, the university will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, further implement the development strategy of "building the university with distinctive features, invigorating it through culture, and strengthening it with talents", comprehensively promote the development of its connotation, embrace a new atmosphere and demonstrate new achievements on the new journey of the new era, and make unremitting efforts to build itself into a high-level application-oriented research university with distinctive features at an early date!

(Update September 2025)