The Hunan University of Science and Technology (HNUST; Chinese: 湖南科技大学; pinyin: Húnán Kējì Dàxué) is a provincial public university in Xiangtan, Hunan of China, under the jointly jurisdiction of central government and provincial government, and is mainly administered by Hunan Province.

Hunan University of Science & Technology (HNUST), which evolves from Northern Hunan Construction College founded in 1949 and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Xiangtan Institute of Technology and Xiangtan Normal University.

As of 2022, Hunan University of Science and Technology was ranked 101st in China, 261st in Asia and 988th globally by the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking.

The 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Hunan University of Science and Technology 989th in the world based on their publications for the period 2018–2021. The Nature Index 2023 by Nature Research ranked the university among the top 1000 leading research institutions globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science.

University rankings
Global – Overall
USNWR Global	988 (2022)
Regional – Overall
USNWR Asia	261 (2022)
National – Overall
USNWR National	101 (2022)

Overall, Hunan University of Science and Technology was ranked in the top 1000 universities in the world by several international rankings including the CWTS Leiden Ranking, the U.S. News & World Report, and the Nature Index.

Subjects ranking by	2022 Global Ranking
U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking
Chemistry	384th
Computer Science	411th
Engineering	601th
Material Science	659th
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
Civil Engineering	201-300
Chemical Engineering	301-400
Computer Science & Engineering	301-400
Chemistry	401-500
Electrical & Electronic Engineering	401-500

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