1. Among the numerous hill in Wuhan
Luojia is the best; on this hill Wuhan university is located
- One of the most beautiful universities in the world
- One of China’s Top University
- The Cradle for fostering innovative talents
Adjacent to the East Lake and at the foot of Luojia Hill, Wuhan University is located in the in the time-honored city of Wuchang in Hubei Province. With a strong cultural atmosphere and the mesmerizing charm of landscape, it is known as “one of the most beautiful universities in the world”, “one of China’s to universities” and “the cradle for fostering innovative talents.”
2. A University with a Hundred-and-Twenty Year History
A Well-Established Foundation
Wuhan University has an experienced vicissitudes in the past 120 years. Numerous people with lofty ideas have endeavored to realize their ambition of building a prosperous and strong country. Straddling three centuries of development the people of Wuhan University have accumulate abundant academic heritage and cultivated profound humanistic spirit. The university has formed the tradition of “respecting scholars, advocating learning” and nurtured the spirit of “improving oneself, advocating perseverance, seeking truth and making innovations”, writing a glorious chapter in the history of modern higher of modern higher learning.
3. A Gathering of Renowned Teachers, A Galaxy of Gifted Talents0
Adhering to the principle of “putting people first” and the strategy of reinvigorating university through human resources. Wuhan University has trained and gathered a faculty of high-quality professionals. The university now has more than 3,600 full-time teachers, including more than 2,500 professors and associate professors, seven academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, eight academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, nine senior professors of Humanities and Social Science, 15 national master teachers, 50 “the Yanglze Scholars Programs” specially-appointed professors and chair professors. 39 laureates of China National Fund of Outstanding Young Scientists, and five creative research groups of the Natural Science Foundation of China.
4. Hall of Humanity, Palace of Science
Wuhan University boasts a relatively complete range of disciplines such as Philosophy, Economics, Law Education, Literature, History, Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Management. It has six divisions of Humanities, Social Science, Nature Science, Nature Science, Engineering, Information Science and Medicine, totaling 37 collages (departments) and three first-class, third-grade hospitals affiliated to the university. The university now has 123 undergraduate programs, 58 disciplines under master programs, 43 disciplines under doctoral programs, and 38 centers for post-doctoral studies.
5. Concept of “Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”
Cultivation of Talents
Wuhan University, initiating its efforts to apply the concept of Creativity of Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to education, has founded “Hongyi School” and the Innovative Experimental Zone for Talent Training Model, and Wuhan University is committed to cultivating interdisciplinary innovative top-notch talents with international vision.
Since its foundation, Wuhan University has fostered over 400,000 professionals and talents of various fields and over 100 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Now the university has more than 100,000 students, which includes over 50,000 full-time undergraduates and more than 20,000 postgraduates.
6. Serving the Society and Benefiting the People
Adhering to the development strategy that highlights the “indomitable spirit”. Wuhan University has created first-class academic achievements Meanwhile, with the advantage of talents and disciplines, Wuhan University is actively taking part in serving the national and local economic and social development, researching to find resolutions to the significant theoretical and practical problems.
Humanity and social workers are actively taking part in contributing plans and ideas to the national and local development, making themselves the “Think Bank” and “Think Tank”. Natural Scientists have also actively participated in scientific research of such state key projects as the Manned Space Project, the Three Gorges Project, the South-to-North Water Division Project, the East-West Electricity Transmission Project and Qinghai-Tibet Railway Project Moreover, they have rendered technical support and medical and health services to the relief work and post disaster reconstruction of Wenchuan (Sichuan) Earthquake and Yushu (Qinghai) Earthquake. Fresh progress has been constantly made in rackling problems in science and technology, evolving the scientific expedition to the North and South Poles, Beidou (Big Dipper) Satellite Navigation, the prevention and control of Aids and SARS, thus making an immense contribution to the development of national innovation system as well as national economy and society.
7. Pluralistic Opening-Up, International Vision
Wuhan University is sticking to the internationalized concept; therefore, the international research cooperation level has been steadily upgraded, international joint training has been more diversified and major breakthroughs in Sino-foreign Joint Educational Programs have been achieved. Duke-Kunshan University founded by the joint efforts of Wuhan University and Duke University initiated precedent of cooperation in running between universities listed in the “985 project” and world-class universities.
Agreements on mutual exchange have been signed with more than 200 universities from over 60 nations and regions, including Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Oxford University, etc. Four Confucius Institutes have been founded by joint efforts of Wuhan University and University de Paris VII, University of Pittsburgh, etc. Such activities as the Autumn Luojia International Cultural Festival, the Luojia International Summer Camp and the International Exchange Camp of Student Organizations of Wuhan University are now serving as important windows and platform for the cross-cultural communication of the university.
8. Harmonious Campus, Charming Luojia
Adjacent to the East Lake and at the foot of Luojia Hill, the campus boasts the ancient architectural complex blending the eastern and western styles. Natural scenery and stylistic and stylistic diversity combined with a bewildering array of cultural activities paint an elegant picture of human and humanity, and constitute a constitute an enchanting campus of vigorous and vitality.