Moreover, the Chinese Academy of Sciences assigns the authority of filing student status and issuing graduate degree for its affiliated institutes to the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and UCAS, and determines which university is responsible for which institute.

Students at CAS research institutes do not need to be physically present at the degree-issuing universities' campus to be awarded the degrees.

[3][4][5][6] UCAS mandates that graduate students at CAS institutes for which UCAS is responsible for issuing degrees must list their affiliation as "University of Chinese Academy of Sciences" in all their published work; failure to comply will result in their graduate degree applications not being considered.

Backed by more than 110 institutes of the CAS, which are located at more than 20 cities all over the country, UCAS is headquartered in Beijing with 4 campuses, and 5 branches in Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Lanzhou.

On the 20th anniversary of UCAS in 1998, Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Jiang Zemin of the People's Republic of China wrote this inscription for the University: "Revitalizing China through science and education, and emphasizing the cultivation and nurturing of talented people.

"[citation needed] UCAS is included in the Double First-Class University Plan designed by the central government of China.

[26] UCAS faculty are all based upon the research professors in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has been consistently ranked the No.

[29] Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles and presents research outputs by institution and country on monthly basis.

[39] Even though UCAS mainly caters to graduate education, the university started enrolling undergraduate students in 2014.