China Geo University (CUGB) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and co-founded with the Ministry of Natural Resources.
It is the first batch of "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" in China, and it is a "double-class" construction university; Selected into the excellent engineer education and training plan, "11plan", the scholarship receiving institution of China government for overseas students, the national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, and the new engineering research and practice plan.
It is a member university of Beijing Hi-Tech University Alliance; Signed member of China University Planetary Science Alliance; It is the cradle of high-level personnel training and the base of geoscience research in China. The school's predecessor was Beijing Institute of Geology, which was formed by the merger of Peking University, Tsinghua University, Tianjin University and the Geology Department (branch) of Tangshan Railway Institute during the adjustment period from 65438 to 0952.
1975, moved to Wuhan, temporarily renamed Wuhan Institute of Geology. 1978, the former Beijing campus was established in graduate department, Beijing. 1987, renamed China Geo University, headquartered in Wuhan. In March 2005, the university headquarters was abolished and Wuhan and Beijing became independent schools.