Wuhan University, located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking among the "double first-class", "985 Project" and "21/engineering" universities in China.
It was selected into the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, the National Basic Science Research and Talent Training Base, the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, the National Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, and the National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base. The school motto is "self-improvement, loyalty, truth-seeking and innovation".
As of July 2022, the school covers an area of 5 195 mu with a building area of 2.8 million square meters. The school has 34 colleges and 3 first-class hospitals. 127 undergraduate majors, 59 master's degrees authorized first-level disciplines, and 49 doctoral degrees authorized first-level disciplines; 46 post-doctoral research mobile stations;
1 1 two disciplines first-class construction discipline, 5 first-class disciplines and 7 national key disciplines; Four national key laboratories, two national engineering technology research centers, two national field scientific observation research stations, two 20 1 1 collaborative innovation centers, two national high-end think tanks, two national science and technology basic platforms, eight key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and five engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education. There are 3862 full-time teachers in the school.
Wuhan University dates back to the self-improvement school founded by 1893. 1928 was named National Wuhan University, 1949 was renamed Wuhan University, and 1960 was identified as a national key comprehensive university. In 2000, Wuhan University merged with Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University to form a new Wuhan University, 200 1, which was identified as the key construction university of the "985 Project".
By 2022, Wuhan University ranked 9th in China University of Soft Science in 2022 [7]; 2022 ABC China University Ranking 13.