more>>See More

A Sight of Study in the Cheapest University——Yangtze University
By admin on 2015-07-13

Yangtze University is an amalgamation of former Jianghan Petroleum University, Hubei Agricultural University, Jingzhou Teacher’s University and Hubei Medical Staff College upon the approval of the Ministry of Education of P. R. China April 2003. Yangtze University, under the strong support of Hubei Province, is the largest and multidisciplinary university affiliated to Hubei Government.

The university campuses cover 2，195，300 square meters with a total structure area of 1,146,600 square meters. Its instruments and facilities for teaching are totally worth RMB 1,003 million Yuan. The university libraries boast a collection of 2,976,600 books, over 3,000 foreign and domestic kinds of journals and about 50 digital databases and network resources. The libraries have good relationships for mutual borrowing with libraries of Wuhan University and Huazhong University of Science & Technology. The university has modernized teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, gyms, sports fields and swimming pools as well as large teaching hospitals.
The university has more than 3,000 faculty members, of whom 2,149 are full time teachers. Now 233 people are full professors and 501 are associate professors. There are over 1,154 having obtained their Doctoral or Master’s degree, including 241 doctoral members. It has 8 specially appointed professors from the Chu tian Scholar Project, 59 experts endowed with special grants from the State Council or the provincial government, 24 young and middle aged experts who won outstanding contribution prize from Hubei Government, 5 National Excellent Teachers and 5 Hubei Excellent Teachers. The university has invited several famous academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences as part time professors.
The university offers 3 doctoral programs and 46 master’s programs including 4 master’s degree subjects of first level. It can grant master’s degree to applicants who have equivalent educational level of graduate, master’s degree of Engineering and master’s degree of agricultural promotion. The university has 80 undergraduate programs covering 10 disciplines, specifically economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agronomy, medicine and management. It has 14 ministerial and provincial level key subjects, 88 laboratories and laboratory centers, including 8 leading laboratories of ministerial and provincial level, 1 provincial engineering research center and 2 provincial humanity research key centers. In 2002-2004 national appraisals of first level subjects, its two subjects of “mineral investigating & prospecting” and “oil & gas engineering” rank in the top 10 subjects of the same kind. The university is prestigious in the research fields of petroleum science and technology, waterlogging and wetland agriculture, and Chu culture.