Hubei University

Hubei University is located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province and a central city in China’s central region. Founded in 1931, it is a provincially administered key comprehensive university jointly developed by the Hubei Provincial People’s Government and Ministry of Education, covering over 2100 mu. It has 18 discipline-based schools and 80 undergraduate programs. It has doctoral degree authorizations in 5 first-level and 41 second-level disciplines, 6 postdoctoral research stations, master’s degree authorizations in 22 first-level and 145 second-level disciplines, and 14 professional master’s degree categories. Its programs cover 12 disciplinary categories: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and arts. It has 2 Ministry of Education key laboratories, 6 Hubei key laboratories, 2 engineering laboratories, 7 engineering technology research centers and 12 provincial key humanities and social science research bases. It leads 3 Hubei “2011 Program” collaborative innovation centers and participates in 1 national and 3 provincial collaborative innovation centers. It has over 1200 full-time teachers, including 803 professors and associate professors, over 100 doctoral supervisors and over 600 master’s supervisors. It has over 18000 regular full-time undergraduate and junior-college students and over 5600 doctoral and master’s students. Each year, it attracts more than 300 international students from around the world. It offers the Chinese Government Scholarship, Confucius Institute Scholarship, Hubei Provincial Government Scholarship for International Students and Hubei Provincial Government Belt and Road Scholarship for International Students. Its buildings cover 710000 square meters. Fixed assets total RMB 1.304 billion, and teaching and research equipment is valued at RMB 370 million. Its library covers 47300 square meters, holding 2.3563 million printed documents, 2.8925 million e-books and 286 Chinese and foreign-language databases. It has academic exchanges and research partnerships with over 110 universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions. It has jointly established Confucius Institutes with the University of Memphis in the United States and São Paulo State University in Brazil and a Confucius Classroom with Jagiellonian College in Poland. It began admitting international students in the 1960s and is qualified to recruit degree students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It currently has over 200 international students of various kinds, including undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students.