1955 may19-June 10 Chen Yi, vice premier of the State Council, presided over the national conference on cultural and educational work, and formulated the "Plan for the Establishment of Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping in Colleges and Universities (Draft)". It is decided to establish the first civil surveying and mapping college in China by relying on the teachers and equipment of surveying and mapping majors of Tongji University, South China University of Technology, Tianjin University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Qingdao University of Technology. On June 1 1-14, the Ministry of Higher Education presided over the first meeting of the College Preparatory Committee, and Xia served as the deputy director of the Preparatory Committee. | 1956, Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping was formally established, directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Higher Education. Guo Moruo wrote the school name. At the beginning of the school, the school set up 3 departments and 4 undergraduate majors. The college started in September 1956 at the southern foot of Luojiashan Mountain in Wuhan, with a five-year academic system. The school has concentrated five first-class professors, including Xia, Wang, Jin Tongyin and Ye, as the representatives of the national elite of surveying and mapping.

1August, 958, the school was placed under the leadership of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping by the Ministry of Education. In February of the same year, it was renamed Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping.

By the end of 1965, the school had developed into 5 departments, 8 undergraduate majors and 1 specialist majors, 1 technical secondary school department and 1 correspondence department.

1966-1973, the school stopped enrolling students for 8 years. 1970, school cancellation. 1973, according to the instructions of Premier Zhou Enlai, the State Council and the Central Military Commission decided to rebuild Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping. There are 5 departments and 7 majors.

1974, the school resumed enrollment.

1976, the school resumed foreign exchanges.

65438-0978, the school was identified as a national key university, and in the same year it began to recruit undergraduate and master students.

198 1 year, the school was identified by the State Council as one of the first units that can award doctoral and master's degrees.

1982 School was identified by the State Council as one of the first units to award bachelor's degrees.

1985 10 Approved by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, the school was renamed Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping.

1993 The school merged the Department of Geodesy and the Department of Engineering Survey to form the College of Geodesy and Engineering.

On August 2, 2000, Wuhan University, Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University merged to form the new Wuhan University.