The university is located on Jinpenling and Yuntang Campuses, with an area of 210.56 hectares and a total floor space of 1,170,000 square meters. The university has fixed assets totaling 2.4 billion yuan, among which the apparatus and equipment for teaching and research are valued at 300 million yuan. The university has a collection of more than 2,960,000 books, 3192 kinds of domestic and international periodicals and 4285GB EBooks. A gigabit backbone Networking system and part of the network core systems have been set up. Multimedia classrooms and language laboratories can seat 16,642 students. The playground covers an area of 213,700 square meters, including an indoor space of 34,500 square meters.

The overall education background, professional title, age and graduating schools are structurally reasonable and keep improving with a good momentum. The university is staffed with 1867 full-time teachers, among whom are 291 professors and 666 associate professors, 580 with PhD degree and 841 with master's degree. Five academicians from the Chinese Academy of Engineering hold concurrent posts in CSUST. Of the faculty, one is entitled "candidate for National Thousand Talents Plan", one "National Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions", one "National Expert with Outstanding Contributions", one "First and Second Level Candidate of the 'National Hundred, Thousand, Ten Thousand Talents Project'", three candidates for "New Century National Hundred, Thousand, Ten Thousand Talents Project", Three "Renowned Teachers of China", one "National Excellent Youth Fund", one "National Role Model of Professional Ethics", six "National Excellent Teachers", ten "New Century Excellent Talents Program of the Ministry of Education", one "Hunan Provincial Excellent Social Sciences Expert", eight candidates for "Hunan Provincial Hundred Talents Program", four chair professors of the "Lotus Scholars Program" in Hunan Province and two "Leading Talents for Science and Technology of Hunan Province".

The university has 16 teaching schools (departments), 1 independent college and 1 continuance education college and enrolls students from 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in China. It now has a registered full-time undergraduates of over 30,000 PhD and Master's degree candidates of around 4,700. It sets up 30 undergraduate majors, 2 post-doctoral workstations, 3 disciplines and 15 sub-disciplines for doctoral degrees, 20 disciplines and 105 sub-disciplines for master’s degrees, 7 professional degree authorizations. It is accredited to confer master’s degrees to those with equivalent academic attainments. The university has 27 natural sciences innovation platforms, such as national engineering laboratories, science and technology innovation teams, key laboratories at provincial or ministerial level and engineering research centers; 10 provincial philosophy and social sciences innovation platform, 11 key disciplines at provincial or ministerial level, 17 undergraduate teaching projects, such as national talents cultivation innovative pilot, teaching contingents, experiment (practice) teaching centers, disciplines with characteristics, elaborate courses and bilingual education demonstration courses.