Since 1952 when Huazhong Institute of Technlology was founded, or even further back, when the German doctor Erich Paulun founded the German Medical School (later as Tongji Medical University ) in Shanghai in 1907, HUST has never stopped its journey to excellence. The past 50 years has witnessed how HUST rapidly developed itself into a dynamic, ambitious and innovative comprehensive research university.
The university commits itself to the task “Seek Truth and Make Innovation”. To these ends, the University seeks to be student-centered so that they may explore their capabilities and interests and develop their full intellectual potential. It aims to foster academic innovation through coordinated interdisciplinary developmental efforts and draws on an unwavering drive toward excellence with a commitment to contributing to the needs of a changing society.
On the 470 hectares forest-like campus are scattering over 100 labs focusing on many research areas. The campus is the home to more than 10 state-level research platforms including Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO), the Center for Gravitational Experiments, and the Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Medicine and Engineering are the great pillars of HUST interwoven with arts and humanities, paint a colorful picture of our academics and research efforts.
Here you will meet dedicated scholars working till late into night, vigorous students shuttling between the sportsground and the library and kind campus workers cleaning the streets early in the morning. Spring flowers, autumn leaves and winter snow, you will have a magic and charming adventure here.
WHY HUST?
LEGEND
One of the Top 10 universities in China
Gained most rapid development among China universities and has been hailed as “The epitome of the development of China’s higher education”
Among the first Universities joining the national “211 Project” and “985 Project” initiated by the Central Government of China which aim at building some China high-ranking universities to be the world first-class universities.
Renowned Tongji Medical College (founded in 1907 by a German Doctor Paulun Erich )
Cultivated a large number of famous University Presidents in China and become a renowned Research centre for Higher Education Management
University in the forest with a total area of 1,153 acres with 72% greenery coverage
QUALITY
More than 3,000 full-time teachers, including 900 professors and 1,200 associate professors
4 libraries with a collection of 5, 79 million volumes
21 National prizes for education reform, 49 National Quality Courses
7 National Talents Cultivating Bases
Above 95% employment rate of graduates
Alumnus as Universities Scholars and Presidents, Engineers, Doctors, Politicians, Enterprisers and Journalists
RESEARCH
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center
11National Key Laboratories and Engineering (Technology) Research Centers
8 disciplines listed as 1% by ESI including biology &biochemistry, Engineering, physics, clinical medicine, chemistry, Material Science, Computer Science, Pharmacology
DIVERSITY
42 academic schools and departments covering 12 comprehensive disciplines: science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, philosophy, law, education, literature, history, agriculture and art
93 undergraduate programs, 214 graduate programs, 175 PhD programs and 31 post-doctoral research centres
49 student clubs covering Literature, Practice, Science and Technology, Sports, Humanities and Social Sciences
UNIVERSALITY
Partnerships with more than 100 world renowned universities and research institutions in 26 countries
Annually over1, 500 famous scholars and experts come to give lectures.
More than 2,000 international students from 120 countries
3 Confucius Institutes in America, New Zealand and Brazil
China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy (ICARE)-the third Sino-European institute