University of Science and Technology of China

aid: ustc
name: University of Science and Technology of China
description: 'The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, 中国科学技术大学) is a public research university in Hefei,
  Anhui, China, founded in 1958 under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is ranked #63 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. USTC does not publish a centralized, public developer portal or documented institutional API program. Its most visible
  publicly reachable technical footprint is the USTC Open Source Software Mirror operated by the campus Linux User Group (LUG
  @ USTC), along with a unified SSO/identity service and a campus GitLab. Most academic, library, and SIS systems sit behind
  the passport.ustc.edu.cn single sign-on and are not openly documented.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- China
- Open Source Mirror
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ustc:mirrors
  name: USTC Open Source Software Mirror
  description: The USTC Open Source Software Mirror, operated by the campus Linux User Group (LUG @ USTC), is one of the largest
    open source software mirror services among universities in mainland China, hosting Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux,
    CentOS and many other distributions. It is consumed over standard package-manager protocols (HTTP/HTTPS/rsync) rather
    than a formally documented REST API; configuration help and a public status page are provided.
  humanURL: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/help/
  baseURL: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/
  tags:
  - Open Source Mirror
  - Linux
  - Package Repository
  - Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/help/
  - type: Status
    url: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/status/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ustclug/mirrorhelp
- aid: ustc:passport
  name: USTC Unified Identity Authentication (Passport SSO)
  description: passport.ustc.edu.cn is the university's unified single sign-on / identity authentication service used by most
    campus websites and systems. It is a gated authentication endpoint for members of the institution; no public developer
    documentation or open client-registration API is published.
  humanURL: https://passport.ustc.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://passport.ustc.edu.cn/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - Authentication
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://passport.ustc.edu.cn/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://en.ustc.edu.cn/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ustclug
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/
- type: Status
  url: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/status/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://passport.ustc.edu.cn/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ustc-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ustc-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ustc-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/ustc-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com