History
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 degrees 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 Education Ministry of China, the former KUST and Yunnan Polytechnic University (founded in 1974) amalgamated into a new and much larger university and came under the name of Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST).
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