Wuhan University

Wuhan University is a key university under the directadministration of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.It is located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, and known as "thethoroughfare leading to nine provinces". The university featuresspectacular natural surroundings with the scenic Luojia Hill in it and thebeautiful East Lake by its side. Its 373 hectares campus is wooded and green,and has fragrant flowers everywhere all the year round; the buildings are inspecial architectural styles, magnificent and mansion looking. Therefore, WuhanUniversity is acknowledged as one of the most beautiful universities in theworld. Wuhan University dates back to Ziqiang Institute, whichwas founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces inlate Qing Dynasty after the Qing Government approved his memorial to thethrone. Later, its name changed for several times before it was finally namedNational Wuhan University in July 1928. By the end of 1946, the university hadsix colleges, i.e., the colleges of liberal arts, law, sciences, engineering,agriculture and medicine. During its 120 years history, Wuhan University hasgradually formed a glorious innovative tradition and is now enjoying a veryhigh academic prestige. With the approval by the State Council of China, newWuhan University was founded on August 2nd, 2000 with the amalgamation of fourfirst-rate universities – original Wuhan University, Wuhan University ofHydraulic and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan Technical University of Surveyingand Mapping, and Hubei Medical University. At present Wuhan University has 6faculties and 37 schools, covering 12 areas, namely Philosophy, Economics, Law,Education, Literature, History, Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Managementand Arts, with 124 ungergraduate programs, 347 graduate programs, and 243doctoral programs,including 5 undergraduate programs and 6 master degreeprograms teaching in English.