昆明理工大學（Kunming University of Science and Technology）辦學歷史悠久，前身是昆明工學院，1995年昆明工學院正式更名為昆明理工大學，又於1999年與雲南工業大學合併，仍沿用原名昆明理工大學。昆明理工大學是一所以工為主，理工結合，兼有經濟、管理、文學（含藝術）、法律、教育、哲學、醫學等多學科協調發展的多科性大學。是雲南省規模最大、辦學層次和類別較為齊全的重點大學，屬中國著名大學之一。 2005 年被教育部評估為 “ 本科教學工作水平優秀學校 ” 。學校現設有 21 個學院, 3 個教學部和1個研究生院,有 74 個本科專業；在全國部分省市設有 60 個函授站，有 61 個夜、函大本專科專業。學校面嚮全國招生，學生畢業面嚮全國就業。學校所有本科專業及碩士、博士研究生專業都具有招收外國留學生學歷教育的資格。 理工大學校園一角
學校現有 6 個博士後流動站、 5 個一級學科博士點、 41 個二級學科博士點、 18 個一級學科碩士點、 127 個二級學科碩士點、 23 個工程碩士授權領域和 1 個 MBA 授權點。有 1 個國傢重點學科、 1 個國傢重點培育學科、 37 個省級重點學科、 9 個省院省校合作共建重點學科、 2 個高等學校特色專業建設點。現有各類學生 54000 餘人，其中博士、碩士研究生 6000 餘人，全日製本專科學生 20000 餘人，成人教育學生 28000 餘人。中國人民解放軍成都軍區在該校設立 “ 後備軍官選拔培訓辦公室 ” ，現有 592 名國防生在讀。
學校擁有一支實力雄厚的教學、科研隊伍，在 3292 名在職教職工中，具有各類高級專業技術職務人員 1176 人。有中國工程院院士 1 人及兼職兩院院士 23 人；博士生導師 112 人，國傢級、省級、校級重點學科帶頭人 110 人；在 1745 名專任教師中，具有教授、副教授職稱人員 872 人，具有博士、碩士學位人員 1182 人；有國傢級突出貢獻專傢 5 人，享受國務院政府特殊津貼、雲南省政府特殊津貼人員 84 人，雲南省有突出貢獻的優秀人才 25 人，雲南省中青年學術和技術帶頭人 23 人、後備人才 30 人，雲南省技術創新人才 14 人， “ 百千萬人才工程 ” 國傢級人選 6 人，第四屆教育部 “ 高校青年教師奬 ”1 人，教育部新世紀優秀人才支持計劃 4 人。
學校蓮華、新迎、白竜校區都坐落在四季如春的昆明市區內，占地面積 1800 畝；已經開工建設的呈貢新校區，位於昆明市呈貢大學城，占地面積 3200 畝。圖書館藏書 256 萬册，有中外文期刊 5500 多種，電子圖書 68 萬册，是 “ 全國研究級文獻收藏單位 ” 和 “ 西南地區有色金屬專業文獻信息中心 ” 。學校現有 1 個國傢工程研究中心、 1 個國傢工程實驗室、 1 個教育部工程研究中心、 1 個國傢環保部工程技術中心、 1 個國傢級實驗教學示範中心、 1 個教育部共建重點實驗室、 3 個省級重點實驗室、 2 個省部級檢測站、 2 個省級産學研聯合開發中心、 6 個省級實驗教學示範中心、 3 個雲南省高校工程研究中心、 2 個雲南省高校重點實驗室和 1 所甲級資質的設計研究院。
2000 年以來，學校獲得國傢級教學成果奬 3 項、省級教學成果奬 20 項；纍计科研經費超過 10 億元；科技成果獲國傢發明二等奬 1 項，戴永年院士獲雲南省科學技術突出貢獻奬；獲省部級科技成果奬 138 項；出版論著 502 部；發表論文 9143 篇。
學校註重對外合作與交流。與美國、德國、法國、英國、希臘、瑞典、日本、韓國、泰國、越南、老撾、俄羅斯、加拿大、意大利、奧地利、葡萄牙、澳大利亞、馬來西亞、哈薩剋斯坦等 20 多個國傢的 60 多所高校和科研機構建立了長期穩定的友好合作交流關係。發起並參加了由中國和 5 個東南亞國傢的 11 所大學組成的 “ 大湄公河次區域學術與研究聯合體 ” ，是該聯合體四個重點領域之一 “ 中小企業發展 ” 領域的牽頭院校；為緬甸國傢工業培訓中心舉辦機電工程方向專業培訓；為越南煤炭與礦産國傢工業集團培養冶金工 程專業 博士、碩士及本科留學生；與亞洲開發銀行合作，每年為中國和東南亞 5 國政府官員舉辦 “ 國傢改革管理 ” 培訓；是十年期 “ 中日核心大學城市環境合作項目 ”13 所中國大學之一；在加拿大、美國等國傢的大學長期開展雙語教學教師培訓項目；與澳大利亞北墨爾本高等技術學院和南昆士蘭大學合作辦學；與瑞典布萊金厄理工學院開展教師交換和學生交流項目；與法國巴黎高等工業大學等三所高校聯合培養分別授法國、中 國 博士學位的博士研究生等。同時，學校還與國內的地方政府、高等學校、科研院所、企事業等 100 多個單位建立了廣泛的合作關係，開展了一批實質性的校地、校際、校企合作項目，促進了教學、科研的持續發展
昆明理工大學的發展目標是：到 2010 年，把學校初步建設成為特色鮮明的高水平大學，成為我省和西部地區培養高層次科技人才和應用人才的重要基地、應用基礎性研究和高科技研究的重要基地、科技開發與應用的重要基地、高新技術成果轉化的重要基地、區域經濟和社會發展的研究咨詢中心。
校長姓名：周榮
昆明理工大學英文簡介
kunming university of science and technology (kust) is located in the beautiful 'spring city' of china - kunming, the capital city of the mysterious and attractive yunnan province, the province located 'in the remote south of the colorful clouds'. as the largest university in yunnan province and one of the well-known universities in china, the earliest departments of kust started admitting undergraduate students for bachelor's degree in march 1925, and kust became an independent public higher education institution in september 1954.in october 1999, based on a decision made by yunnan provincial government and approved by the ministry of education of china, the former kust and yunnan polytechnic university (founded in 1974) amalgamated into a new and much larger university and remained under the name of kunming university of science and technology (kust) .
with the current 21 faculties (schools), covering the fields ranging from science, engineering and economics to management, arts, law and education, kust offers a complete list of degree programs including ph. d., ms., mseng., meng, ma, bs, bseng and ba, as well as other programs including post-doctor, preparatory, continuing education, vocational training and chinese language training for international students.
kust recruits students from all over china, including hong kong, macao and taiwan. in addition, kust is authorized to recruit international students for degree programs ranging from bachelor to master and ph. d. there are over 40,000 students currently studying at kust, and among them over 3,000 are graduate students. kust presently offers 67 bachelor programs, 74 master programs and 24 ph.d. programs. there are 4 state authorized post-doctoral stations, 1 state-level key academic subject and 18 province-level key academic subjects in kust.
kust has a qualified and experienced academic staff team that conducts both teaching and research. the total number of the staff is about 3,300 including academic and non-academic ones, nearly 800 of them are professors and associate professors, and over 1,600 are full-time teaching staff. furthermore, there is one academician of china academy of engineering working for kust and there are a number of academicians of china academy of science and of china academy of engineering jointly working for kust.
kust is composed of three campuses, namely lianhua, xinying and bailong, all are in kunming city, occupying an area of about 120 hectares. the floor area of the buildings in the 3 campuses occupy over 900,000 square meters, and many important construction projects are still in progress. the university library has about 2.2 million volumes of books and periodicals, and the library is authorized as a state-level research documents collection unit. kust has founded a state-level engineering research center, 2 provincial and/or ministerial level test stations, 2 provincial level research and development centers, 3 provincial level key laboratories, 1 class-a design and research institute, and 1 class-a environment assessment institute. there are 32 research institutes, 13 research laboratories and 13 research centers at university or faculty levels in kust.
kust attaches great importance to both domestic and international exchange and cooperation. it has established cooperative and exchange relationships with nearly 70 universities in over 20 different countries, and solid ties with over 100 domestic local governments, institutions of higher education and research, as well as enterprises. the research activities in kust play an important and critical role in yunnan province as well as in the southwest region of china. for each of the past two years, the increment of the research fund for kust took a proportion of over 1/2 in the total increment for all the universities in yunnan province.
as the goal of perspective by 2010, kust is on its way to be developed in to a high-level university with distinctive characteristic, an important provincial and regional training base for advanced technical talents, a research and development base for both applied fundamental research and hi-tech research, an incubation base for hi-tech industrialization, and also a research and consulting center for the regional social and economical development.
chief heads of kust:
president: prof. zhou rong
dean, school of graduate studies: prof. wang hua
chief librarian: prof. zhang zhonghua
director, division of teaching administration: prof. lu jiansheng
director, division of research administration: prof. shen lizhong
director, division of international cooperation: prof. deng gang
important statistics:
total area of 3 campuses: 120 hectares
floor area: 900,000 square meters
library collections: 2.2 million volumes
faculty members: 3.3 thousand
student number: 40 thousand