Since 2000, the school has won 72 national natural science awards, national invention awards and national scientific and technological progress awards. The number of SCI papers and projects of the National Natural Science Foundation ranks among the top universities in China, and ranks among the top three universities in China in the selection of outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences by the Ministry of Education.

The National Social Science Fund Project and the Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education are among the best in universities in China, and dozens of achievements have won the National "Five Ones" Project Award, the National Book Award and the China Book Award.

The school has won the excellent product award (transaction award) and excellent organization award of Shenzhen International Hi-tech Fair for more than ten consecutive times.

Wuhan University has actively utilized its own advantages in scientific and intellectual resources, carried out multi-level and multi-field cooperation with enterprises and scientific research institutions through the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and jointly established more than 70 high-tech enterprises with the development platform of high-tech industries, which has achieved good social and economic benefits and promoted the development of the university.

The school has participated in the scientific research and engineering construction of the Three Gorges Project, the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, the West-to-East Power Transmission Project and other national key projects, and has continuously made new breakthroughs in scientific research such as scientific investigation in the South and North Poles and prevention and treatment of major infectious diseases. Maxie hybrid rice, Honglian hybrid rice, high-frequency ground wave monitoring radar, GPS global satellite positioning and navigation, high-performance hybrid battery and other applied scientific and technological achievements not only have great scientific and theoretical value, but also have great social and economic benefits.

Experts and scholars in humanities and social sciences give full play to the role of "think tank" and "think tank", actively explore major theoretical and practical issues related to national economic construction, social development and human progress, and obtain a number of scientific research achievements with great theoretical significance and application value, which provide strong theoretical guarantee and intellectual support for national economic construction and social development.