UCASisahighereducationinstitutionestablishedwiththeapprovaloftheMinistryofEducation,focusingongraduateeducation.ThepredecessorofUCASwastheGraduateSchoolofChineseAcademyofSciences(GSCAS),whichwasfoundedin1978asthefirstgraduateschoolinChinabyapprovaloftheStateCouncil.UCASgraduatedthefirstdoctoralstudentinscience,firstdoctoralstudentinengineering,firstfemaledoctoralstudentandfirststudentwithdoubledoctoraldegreesinChina.In2014,UCASbegantorecruitundergraduates.
