Built on the MIT model and as a member of "Project 985", UESTC is an electronics-centred multidisciplinary leading research university located in Chengdu China, currently enrolling over 10,000 research students and about 14,000 undergraduates in 14 academic Schools: which cover all of the 6 National Key Disciplines specified for higher education in electronic and information science and technology in China, with multidisciplinary extensions and enhancements including Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences, a Business School comprising: and a plus a which is an international college dedicated to facilitating international and trans-national education. In addition, there is a cross-disciplinary research institute: The most recent official ranking made by Ministry of Education (based on input-output performance), which was published in the "People's Daily", ranked UESTC the 5th among the 39 "Project 985" Universities, surpassing Fudan, Tianjin, Xi'an Jiaotong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sichuan, Shanghai Jiaotong, Sun Yat-sen and Nankai .