University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Sichuan Province and Chengdu City. It is listed on the national "Double First-Class Initiative", "Project 985", "Project 211", "2011 Plan","111 Plan", excellent engineer education and training plan, high-level university public graduate program, and it is the university of Chinese government scholarship to receive foreign students in China, national deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform demonstration university, and a member of "University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Xidian University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications". It is a comprehensive and research-oriented national key university that covers the entire electronic discipline, with electronic information science and technology as the core, with engineering as the main focus, science and engineering infiltrating, and coordinated development of science, engineering, management, literature, and medicine.

The original name of the school was Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering, which was founded in 1956 by the merger of telecommunications engineering majors of Jiaotong University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xi'an Jiaotong University), Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) and South China Institute of Technology (now South China University of Technology). In 1960, it was listed as a national key institution of higher learning. In 1961, it was identified as one of the seven national defense industry colleges. In 1988, it was renamed University of Electronic Science and Technology. In 2000, it changed from management by the former Ministry of Information Industry to management by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it entered the ranks of national "Double First-Class Initiative" construction universities. In 2019, the Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province signed a contract to jointly promote the construction of a world-class university.

As of August 2023, the school has three campuses: Qingshuihe, Shahe and Jiulidi, with a total building area of more than 1.49 million square meters. It has 25 teaching and research units and 65 undergraduate majors. There are 15 post-doctoral mobile stations, 19 first-level doctoral programs, 31 first-level master programs, 4 doctoral programs and 12 master programs. There are more than 3,800 teaching and administrative staff, and more than 42,000 students of undergraduates, masters and doctors.