Founded in 1909, China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) is one of the key national universities directly under the administration of the China’s Ministry of Education. It is also listed in the national “211 Project” and “985 Innovation Platform for Advantageous Disciplines”. In 2017, CUMT was recognized as a “university with first-rate discipline construction”. CUMT covers an area of 297 hectares, in which the Wenchang campus covers an area of 107 hectares.

CUMT offers 57 undergraduate programs, 35 first-level discipline master programs, 9 professional degree programs, 16 first-level doctoral programs, and 14 post-doctoral programs. The university now has one key first-grade discipline and 8 key disciplines rated by the Chinese government as priorities on the national educational agenda, and 1national key incubated discipline.CUMT has a strong reputation across the globe in engineering-related majors. In 2017, in the forth round of discipline evaluation conducted by Ministry of Education, disciplines of Mineral Engineering, Safety Science and Engineering, Science and Technology in Surveying and Mapping as well as Geological Resources and Geological Engineering ranked the first, first, third and third respectively. The Engineering Science, Earth Science, Materials Science and Chemistry of CUMT rank the top 1% of ESI among all the universities and scientific research institutions in the world.

CUMT features good facilities for teaching and research. The university has 2 national key laboratories, 2 national engineering research centers, 1 national engineering laboratory, 4 key labs under the Ministry of Education of China, 2 engineering research centers, 1 national university science park, 17 provincial and ministerial key laboratories and engineering and technological research centers as well as Low-carbon Energy Institute and Internet of Things (Perception of Mines) Research Center. The university library has a total number of 2,700,000 books and 3,280,000 digital books.

CUMT has more than 3,100 teaching staff, of which over 424 professors and 746 associate professors. And there are also 370 doctoral supervisors and 975 master supervisors. Teachers with a doctoral degree account for 70%. CUMT also boasts one academician of the Chinese Academy of Science and fifteen Academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering (including honorary staff). 

CUMT is located in Xuzhou, a city with a time honored history and comfortable climate.Xuzhou lies in the middle of Beijing and Shanghai, northernmost city in Jiangsu province, CUMT enjoys great geographical position. By the bullet train ‘Fuxing’, it takes only three hours to Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Wuhan and Hangzhou. 

International students can enjoy the twin room equipped with an independent bathroom, an air conditioner and wifi. The university has been attaching importance to the living habits of students from different backgrounds.Apart from Chinese and western dining halls, there are Muslim restaurants.

Founded by a United Kingdom based mining company, CUMT has a long history of international cooperation and has a very good multicultural campus spirit. The university has about 23,000 full-time undergraduates, about 11,000 postgraduate and doctoral candidates, as well as 556 overseas students from 60 countries are pursuing their dreams at CUMT. At present, the university has signed the cooperative agreement with 25 universities that are among the top 200 in the world. The academic communication with the rest of the world is becoming more and more active and dynamic. CUMT is looking forward to welcoming you to our university!