Yangtze University is the largest comprehensive university with complete disciplines in Hubei Province. It is a "double-first-class" university in Hubei Province, selected by the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest", and is a university jointly established by Hubei Provincial People's Government, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Corporation, China Petrochemical Group Corporation and China Offshore Oil Corporation, Hubei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture.

Major 16, undergraduate major involves economics, law, teaching, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and other disciplines 10, and in 20 10, the college passed the undergraduate professional teaching qualification assessment of Hubei Independent College. Electronic information engineering, marketing, landscape architecture, English, etc. It is listed as a pilot project of "comprehensive professional reform" in undergraduate universities in Hubei Province; Mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, electronic information engineering, and landscape architecture are listed as undergraduate programs of strategic emerging (pillar) industries talent training programs in ordinary universities in Hubei Province.