In April 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed by the merger of Jianghan Petroleum College, Hubei Agricultural College, Jingzhou Normal College and Hubei Medical College of Health Workers. It is a comprehensive university with the largest scale and the most comprehensive disciplines in Hubei Province, and a key university in Hubei Province. The school is located in Jingzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The ancient city of Jingzhou is located in the beautiful and rich hinterland of Jianghan Plain, with a history of more than 2,600 years. It is an important town where the king is appointed as the official residence. It is located in the three towns of Wuhan, with nine provinces in the east, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the west, the vast Dongting Lake in the south and Wudang Mountain in the north. With beautiful campus environment and pleasant scenery, it is a garden-style college in Hubei Province. The former Jianghan Petroleum Institute belongs to China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Corporation. Since 2000, it has been jointly built by the central and local governments and handed over to Hubei Province for management. Hubei Agricultural College, formerly known as Huazhong Agricultural College Jingzhou Branch, was founded in 1977 and 1989 with the approval of the State Education Commission. It is one of the five key undergraduate colleges in Hubei Province. The former Jingzhou Teachers College, formerly known as fourth area Simple Teachers College, was founded in 1936. Jingzhou Teachers College was established in 1978, and 1999 was transformed into Jingzhou Teachers College with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The former Hubei Medical College of Health Workers was founded in 195 1, renamed as Jingzhou Branch of Wuhan Medical College in 1977, and renamed as Hubei Medical College of Health Workers in 1984. The campus of Yangtze University covers an area of 4,042 mu, with a building area of 949,000 square meters and 6,543,800 sets of teaching instruments and equipment, with a total value of 258 million yuan. The library has a collection of 2.244 million books, and has more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals for a long time, and has various electronic literature databases and network resources. The school has a large modern teaching building, laboratory building, gymnasium, track and field, swimming pool and two first-class teaching hospitals. The school has more than 4,300 faculty members, including full-time teachers 1600, 200 professors and 670 associate professors. More than 800 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees; "Chutian Scholar Program" includes 5 people from distinguished professor, 35 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council and provincial governments, 24 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from Hubei Province, and 79 cross-century academic leaders at provincial and ministerial levels. 13 people won the Ceng Xianzi Education Fund Award. There are 73 undergraduate majors and 27 specialist majors, covering economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management 10. There are more than 76,000 students, including 4 1000 full-time graduate students, college students and foreign students. There are 20 master's programs, 7 doctoral programs under construction and 35 master's programs under construction, and they have the same academic qualifications to apply for master's and master's degrees in engineering; With the approval of the Ministry of Education, it can jointly train doctoral students with relevant universities; There are 14 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 88 laboratories and experimental centers, including 6 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 1 national engineering research center base and 2 provincial humanities and social science research bases; The school has distinctive features in the fields of petroleum technology, waterlogging and wetland agriculture, and Jingchu culture research. The school has many scholarships, such as Sun Science and Education Fund Scholarship for Outstanding Students, China Petroleum Scholarship, "Light of Oil" Scholarship, Petroleum Alumni Scholarship, Shang Xian Scholarship, Xiangzhi Scholarship, Scholarship and Tongwei Scholarship. Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the whole school has undertaken more than 2,500 scientific research projects at all levels, such as the National Natural Science Foundation, national scientific research projects, "863" and "973" high-tech projects and international cooperation projects, and has obtained more than 200 million yuan in scientific research funds. The school has also undertaken more than 100 national, provincial and ministerial education reform and teaching and scientific research projects, and 1 16 scientific research achievements have won national or provincial and ministerial awards; A total of 87 17 academic papers were published, of which 1 13 were collected by three international retrieval systems. The school actively adapts to the needs of social and economic development, constantly reforms the talent training mode, creates a good educational environment, and implements the credit system, tutorial system, major and minor system, and double-degree system. Pay attention to the cultivation of entrepreneurial, innovative and high-quality talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, and have trained more than 88,000 professionals of all kinds for the society. They play an important role in various fields and fronts, and a large number of graduates become the backbone of the unit and the elite of society. In recent years, the admission rate of fresh graduates for postgraduate entrance examination has continuously exceeded 20%, the one-time employment rate of graduate students has remained above 95%, and the one-time employment rate of undergraduate graduates has reached above 85%. The school has established school-enterprise cooperation relations with 24 large and super-large state-owned enterprises in China, and is a pilot school of cooperative education in Industry-University-Research, Ministry of Education. The school has established inter-school cooperative relations with Lola University in Missouri, colorado school of mines, Brigham Young University, Pennsylvania State University, Newcastle University in England, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Moscow Petroleum Institute in Russia, Dnieper State University in Ukraine, Kelding University in Australia and Kanto University in Korea. It has established academic exchange relations with more than 30 foreign universities and international organizations, including the University of Houston in the United States, the University of Victoria in Canada, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. In the past ten years, the school has sent hundreds of international students, hired more than 100 famous scholars at home and abroad as visiting professors, established friendly and cooperative relations with universities in 28 countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada and Russia, sent international students to more than 10 countries such as the United States, Britain, Japan and Singapore, and recruited international students at home.