Yangtze University, referred to as "Growth" (YU), is a key construction university of the national "Small 2 1 1 Project" (the basic capacity building project of central and western universities). It is located in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, a famous historical and cultural city. And has a teaching and research base in Wuhan, which belongs to the Hubei Provincial Department of Education. It is a comprehensive university with the largest scale and the most comprehensive disciplines among colleges and universities in Hubei Province, a key university in Hubei Province and a garden university in Hubei Province. The school campus covers an area of 3,766 mu, with a construction area of 65.438+0.456 million square meters and fixed assets of 65.438+0.96 billion yuan.

Yangtze University was formed on April 6th, 2003 by the merger of Jianghan Petroleum College, Hubei Agricultural College, Jingzhou Normal College and Hubei Medical College of Health Workers. It is a university jointly established by Hubei Provincial People's Government, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, China Offshore Oil Corporation, Hubei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Twelfth Five-Year Plan" provincial key disciplines and key disciplines 13. Have the right to confer doctoral degrees and recommend outstanding undergraduate graduates to study for master's degrees without taking the test. It is an "excellent" university evaluated by the Ministry of Education, a national demonstration unit of cooperative education in Industry-University-Research, an innovation base for graduate students majoring in petroleum in Hubei Province, a first-class university in the innovative experimental area of national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and talent training mode, and a first-class ordinary university in Hubei Province.

20 15 schools enroll students in Hubei and Shaanxi provinces as a whole, and some majors enroll students in Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces.