---
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
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: 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