Address of Three Gorges University, Yichang City, Hubei Province: No.8 Daxue Road, Xiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province.

Brief introduction of Three Gorges University in Yichang City, Hubei Province;

Approved by the Ministry of Education, the Three Gorges University was formed on June 29th, 2000 by the merger of the former Wuhan Institute of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges University.

The former Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Power (Yichang) was formerly known as Gezhouba Hydropower Engineering College, which was established in 1978. It belongs to the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the State Power Company. 1996 merged with the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power 1 1 to form a new Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, which became a "2 1 project" construction university.

The former Hubei Three Gorges College was formed by the merger of Yichang Normal College, Yichang Medical College and Yichang Vocational College on 1996.

The history of the school can be traced back to 1946, undergraduate education started in 1978, postgraduate education started in 1996, and doctoral training was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in 20 13.

The school enrolls students from 365,438+0 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and more than 20 countries (regions). There are 25 provinces where most majors enter the first enrollment, including Hubei, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Jilin. It has the right to award bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree, excellent undergraduate students have the right to recommend master's degree without examination, and on-the-job personnel apply for master's degree qualification, ethnic minority preparatory student qualification, international student and China government scholarship student (CSC) qualification, and Hong Kong student qualification without examination.

In 2009, the Ministry of Water Resources signed an agreement with the Hubei Provincial People's Government to jointly build the Three Gorges University. 20 1 1, the school was selected as the second batch of "excellent engineer education and training plan" universities of the Ministry of Education. At present, Three Gorges University has become a comprehensive university with obvious advantages in water conservancy and electric power, strong comprehensive school-running strength and certain social reputation.