 UCAS is ranked 18th in NTU Rankings 2019, placing it 1st in China, and ranked 96th in CWUR World University Rankings 2019-2020, placing it 3rd in China after only Peking University and Tsinghua University.In 1978, the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) was founded in Beijing, as the first graduate school in China.In 1986, the Graduate School of USTC was renamed Graduate School (Beijing) of USTC, while USTC established a new Graduate School in Hefei, Anhui province.