Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is a public new research university with a high starting point and high positioning, founded in Shenzhen against the backdrop of higher education reform and development in China. The university draws on the disciplinary settings and operating models of world-class science and engineering universities, focusing primarily on science, engineering, and medicine, while also incorporating business and distinctive humanities and social sciences. It offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs and conducts research in a series of new disciplinary directions, aiming to become a think tank guiding social development and a source of new knowledge and technologies.
Southern University of Science and Technology will be rooted in China, seizing the historical opportunities of the dual-zone driving force of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone, and the overlapping dual-zone status of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone. It will carry forward the founding spirit of "daring to venture, seeking truth and being pragmatic, reforming and innovating, and pursuing excellence", highlighting the educational characteristics of "Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship". The university will strive to serve the construction of an innovative country and Shenzhen's development into an international, modern, and innovative city, rapidly building itself into a high-level international research university that gathers first-class faculty, cultivates top innovative talents, creates world-class academic achievements, and promotes technological applications, laying a solid foundation for achieving the grand goal of becoming a world-class research university as soon as possible.
