Recently, the notice issued by the Ministry of Education (MOE) approved the application of USTB to add two new undergraduate majors: Statistics and Energy Storage Science and Engineering. The two majors were approved and successfully added into USTB’s undergraduate majors’ list.

Statistics is the discipline that concerns how to extract information and regularity from data, which is the fundamental for emerging disciplines such as Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. The Statistics major of USTB aims to cultivates high-quality talents who have solid grasp of fundamental theories and methods of statistics, applied mathematics, computational mathematics and other related disciplines. Such talents should possess excellent mathematical thinking ability, strong knowledge updating ability and international vision, and can use the statistical theories, methods, and skills to solve practical problems in information technology and scientific and engineering calculations. Statistics major can promote the integration of science and engineering, facilitate the construction of Emerging Engineering Education, and provide strong support for USTB’s First-Class University construction.

Energy Storage Science and Engineering aims to accelerate the cultivation of “advanced, sophisticated, but deficient” talents in the field of Energy Storage, enhance the industry’s ability to tackle key core technologies and independent innovation, and promote the high-quality development of the energy storage industry through the integration of industry and education. By integrating relevant resources and promoting interdisciplinary development, this new major of USTB will cultivate composite innovative technical talents for the transformative development of energy in China through the whole chain of energy storage and management fields such as new energy, energy materials, energy control and management , and energy storage technology.