1, Central South University, located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, with its main campus at the southern foot of Yuelu Mountain.
Now it is a national key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, and the first batch of universities entered the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project".
Its predecessors, Hunan Medical University, Changsha Railway Institute and Central South University of Technology, merged to form Central South University in April 2000.
The earliest traces of the school can be traced back to Hunan Higher Industrial School founded by 1903 and Xiangya Medical College founded by 19 14.
2. Hunan University, referred to as Huda for short, is located in Yuelu Shandong (South Campus) and Northwest (Finance College Campus) on the west bank of Xiangjiang River in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. It is a full-time comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), "Double First-class University Construction University" and the original "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project".
The predecessor of Hunan University can be traced back to Yuelu Academy, which was founded in 976 AD.
1903 Yuelu Academy was transformed into Hunan University, and 1926 was named Hunan University. 1937 became one of more than ten national universities of the Ministry of Education of the National Government.
Hunan Normal University is located in Changsha, Hunan Province. It faces Xiangjiang River and backs to Yuelu Mountain. It is a national key construction university of 2 1 1 project, and an excellent university for undergraduate teaching level evaluation of ordinary colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education.
On the eve of the 70th anniversary in 2008, the school re-launched the motto of the former National Normal University, and gave a new interpretation, reinterpreted the school spirit, redesigned and activated the school emblem, and wrote a new school song, striving to cultivate the common values of all teachers and students.
Eight views of the campus were selected, which further optimized the educational environment of the school.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the school, Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the school: Be virtuous and carry things, keep pace with the times.
4. The National University of Defense Technology of PLA is located in Changsha, Hunan Province, and is a comprehensive university directly under the Central Military Commission.
The school ranks among the first five-year plan 156 key construction projects, 21project, 985 project, second-class project and "2 1 1 0 project", and it is one of the 20 key universities in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.