China Three Gorges University is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed on May 25th, 2000 by the merger of the former Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges College. Approved by the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Province, it was selected as the second batch of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" by the Ministry of Education.
In June 2022, the official website of the school showed that the school covers an area of more than 3,000 mu, with a total construction area of 6,543,800+4,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 806 million yuan, and there are more than 2.95 million paper books in the library. There are 22 colleges and 80 undergraduate majors; There are 4 first-class doctoral programs, 1 professional doctoral program and 27 first-class doctoral programs.
In June, 2022, official website showed that there are 22 colleges and 80 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines: science, engineering, literature, medicine, economics, management, law, teaching and arts.