According to official website of Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan University of Technology is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and the first batch of national "2 1 1 project" and "double-class" universities are jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transport, so Wuhan University of Technology is 2 1 1.

The history of running a school originated from Hubei Technical School, which was established in 1898. 125 Since its establishment, especially in the past 70 years, the school has trained nearly 700,000 senior professionals, which is the largest school directly under the Ministry of Education to train talents in three major industries: building materials, construction, transportation and automobile.