429 people. The School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China is a secondary school of China University of Science and Technology. Its predecessor was the Department of Mathematics, which was founded in 1958 by the famous mathematician Huajiao. According to the official website of the school, the number of applicants for the postgraduate entrance examination in 2022 was 429, the highest in the past years. China University of Science and Technology, located in Hefei, Anhui Province, is a national key university directly under the China Academy of Sciences, focusing on cutting-edge science and high technology, with emphasis on medicine, characteristic management and humanities.