The Ministry of Education publishes the results of subject evaluation every four years, and the latest one is the fourth. The following are the evaluation results of the disciplines of Three Gorges University, among which the better disciplines are electrical engineering, civil engineering and water conservancy engineering, and were rated as B-.

The evaluation results are presented in the form of "grading". The specific method is to announce the top 70% subjects in nine grades according to the ranking percentile of "the overall level score of subjects": the top 2% (or the top 2) is A+, 2% ~ 5% is A (excluding 2%), and 5% ~ 10% is A-.

The Three Gorges University was approved by the Ministry of Education on May 25th, 2000, and was formed by the merger of the former Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges College. Co-built by the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Province, it was selected as the second batch of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education, the second phase project of basic capacity building in central and western universities, and the "domestic first-class university" of Hubei Province.