Changsha University of Science and Technology (CSUST) was established in 2003 by the merger of the former Changsha Institute of Transportation and Changsha Institute of Electric Power, which were both built in 1956. It is a multi-disciplinary university with engineering as priority and coordinated development of engineering with science, management, economics, law, philosophy and arts. CSUST is devoted to high quality undergraduate education with 43 national first-class undergraduate programs under construction, accounting for 50% of the 86 undergraduate programs. Currently, the university has 3 Sino-foreign undergraduate cooperative education programs granted by the Ministry of Education, namely civil engineering, electrical engineering and automation, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation. It has 5 post-doctoral research stations, 8 primary-discipline doctoral programs, 29 primary-discipline master's programs and 18 professional master's programs. It is accredited to enroll international students under China Government Scholarship Programs. Its total enrollment is about 45, 000.