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University of Science and Technology of China

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.

University of Science and Technology of China publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and China.

The University of Science and Technology of China catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of Science and Technology of China’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, status page, authentication, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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21.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchChinaOpen Source Mirror

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 21.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

USTC Open Source Software Mirror

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 main...

USTC Unified Identity Authentication (Passport SSO)

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...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ustc Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ustc Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ustc Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ustc Context

13 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ustc Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status
Status
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ustc.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ustc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ustc-domain-security.yml
- 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