It is formed by the merger of Jianghan Petroleum College, Hubei Agricultural College, Jingzhou Normal College and Hubei Medical College of Health Workers. This school has been selected as the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Colleges and Universities in the Midwest", and it is a pilot university of the Ministry of Education's outstanding engineer education and training program, outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training program, and outstanding doctoral education and training program. It is a university jointly established by Hubei Provincial People's Government, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group, China Petrochemical Group, China Offshore Oil Corporation and the Ministry of Agriculture.
At present, there are 24 teaching colleges (departments) in Yangtze University, including: School of Economics (majors include finance, economics, international economy and trade, agricultural and forestry economic management, agricultural and forestry economic management), School of Political Science and Law (majors include law and social work), School of Physical Education (majors are social sports guidance and management, physical education), and College of Literature (radio and television director, radio and television science, Chinese language and literature, Chinese language and literature).
School of Information and Mathematics (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Information and Computing Science), School of Physical Science and Technology (Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering, Light Source and Lighting, Physics and Applied Physics), School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Polymer Materials and Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Technology (Chemical Technology), Chemical Engineering and Technology (Petroleum Refining), Environmental Engineering and Applied Chemistry).
College of Life Sciences (including Outstanding Engineer Program of Ministry of Education), College of Biotechnology (including talent program of pillar industries), College of Food Science and Engineering (food science and engineering, food quality and safety, including outstanding agricultural and forestry talent program of Ministry of Education), College of Petroleum Engineering (offshore oil and gas engineering, petroleum engineering (including outstanding engineer program of Ministry of Education), oil and gas storage and transportation engineering), College of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources (geophysics, exploration technology and engineering)
College of Earth Sciences (geographic information science (including talent plan of pillar industries), geology, resource exploration engineering (including outstanding engineer plan of Ministry of Education), resource exploration engineering (oil logging)), and mechanical engineering college (industrial design, machinery (mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, material forming and control engineering, process equipment and control engineering, including outstanding engineer plan of Ministry of Education and talent plan of pillar industries).
School of Electronic Information (Electrical Engineering (Measurement and Control Technology and Instrument, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Automation Including Pillar Industry Talent Plan), Electronic Information Engineering (Electronic Information Engineering, Communication Engineering Including Excellent Engineer Training Plan of Ministry of Education, Pillar Industry Talent Plan)), School of Computer Science (Computer Science and Technology, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Internet of Things Engineering), Urban Construction College (Architecture, Urban and Rural Planning)
Agricultural College (agricultural resources and environment (including agricultural talents program of Ministry of Education), plant production (including agronomy, plant protection, seed science and engineering, including agricultural talents program of Ministry of Education and talent program of pillar industries), agricultural resources and environment, agronomy and plant protection), Horticultural Garden College (garden (including agricultural talents program of Ministry of Education), horticulture (including agricultural talents program of Ministry of Education), landscape architecture, landscape architecture.
College of Animal Science (Animal Science, Animal Medicine (Animal Medicine, Animal Pharmacy, including Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Program of the Ministry of Education), Aquaculture (including Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Program of the Ministry of Education), Animal Pharmacy, Animal Medicine, Aquaculture), Medical College (Nursing, Nursing (Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools), Clinical Medicine (including Excellent Doctor Program of the Ministry of Education), Medical Imaging Technology, Medical Inspection Technology, Clinical Medicine of Chinese and Western Medicine), and