The school was formed by the merger of the former Wuhan Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges Institute on May 25th, 2000. The former Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Power (Yichang), formerly known as Gezhouba Hydropower Engineering College, was founded in 1978, and successively belonged to the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the State Power Company.
1996 merged with the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power to form a new Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, which became an important part of the "21/project" to build a university. The former Hubei Three Gorges College was formed by the merger of Yichang Normal College, Yichang Medical College and Yichang Vocational College on 1996.
The school began to hold undergraduate education on 1978, and it is the first batch of bachelor's degree awarding units in China. 1996 began to hold master's degree education, 1998 began to train doctoral students. After years of development, Three Gorges University now has 265,438+0 colleges and 78 undergraduate majors, covering nine disciplines: science, engineering, literature, medicine, economics, management, law, teaching and art.
Among them, there are 6 national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites 16, 2 provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites 1 6, 7 specialty certifications, 5 national specialty brands 10, 7 specialties approved by the national excellent engineer education and training plan, and10.
There are 9 provincial strategic emerging (pillar) industries plans, 6 provincial comprehensive reform pilot projects for undergraduate majors, and the provincial "Jingchu Talents" collaborative education plan project 1 1. There are 22 master's degree categories such as law, education, business administration, journalism and communication, electronic information, energy and power, and clinical medicine.