The first is the top three universities in geographic information science.
1, Peking University
Peking University, founded in 1898, was the first national comprehensive university in China and the highest educational administrative organ in China at that time. It was renamed as 19 12 after the Revolution of 1911. Peking University, a university directly under the Ministry of Education, is a national key university under the national "2 1 1 Project"/"985 Project"/"201Plan". It is a nine-school alliance (C9), China University Presidents Association, East Asian Research University Association and so on. It is the cradle of cultivating high-quality innovative talents, the frontier of scientific research, an important base for knowledge innovation and an important bridge and window for international communication.
2. Beijing Normal University
Beijing Normal University, referred to as "Beijing Normal University" for short, is a vice-ministerial establishment directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) and directly under the charge of the central government. Ranked as "2 1 1 project" and "985 project", it was selected as the national "Everest Plan", "20 165438 Plan" and "165438 Plan".
3. Wuhan University
Wuhan University is a comprehensive research university located in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Its school-running origin can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty (1893), when Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, founded the School of Self-improvement at the invitation of the Qing government. It has a history of 100 years. 19 1926 was renamed as National Wuchang Normal School, and National Wuchang Sun Yat-sen University was established. 1949 New China was founded and renamed Wuhan University, which is still in use today.
Two. Brief introduction of geographic information science specialty
The original name of Geographicinformationscience is GeographicInformationSystem or Geo-Informationsystem or GIS (20 12). In the Catalogue of Undergraduate Majors in Colleges and Universities (20 12) recently issued by the Ministry of Education, among the geographic science majors, the geographic information system major was changed to the geographic information science major. A science that studies the collection, analysis, storage, display, management, dissemination and application of geographic information, as well as the law of the generation, transmission and transformation of geographic information flow.