QUST always takes teaching as its core, and has educated more than 60,000 high-level professional talents for the society. It emphasizes scientific research as well and has created a “QUST Phenomenon”. In the past decade, QUST has won 13 State Technical Invention Prizes and State Science and Technology Progress Prize. According to the ranking parade about the situation of gaining 3 State Technical Achievement Prizes among the state general universities conducted by the Central Educational Institute for the period of 1997 to 1999, QUST ranks 5th for State Technical Invention Prize, and 74th for State Science and Technology Progress Prize. And it ranks 67th according to “The List of Universities of the Patent Application Figure”(1985-2000) issued by the Technical Developing Center of Education Ministry.  Between 2003 and 2004, the papers of QUST included in SCI and EI rank 87th, 66th  (SCI) and 83rd, 86th (EI) among all the state universities in China. QUST develops rapidly in co-operation and exchange with foreign institutions. It has already established Sister University relationship with 16 universities of many countries like Russia, Germany, Korea, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, and USA. And it starts 9 joint-education programs with universities of Germany, Korea, France, USA, Estonia and Canada. The Sino-Germany Technical College co-established by Paderborn University (Germany) and QUST is considered as a model in both China and Germany.