Brief introduction of Wuhan University of Light Industry

Wuhan University of Light Industry, located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, is the earliest school in China to train professionals in the grain industry. It is a university jointly established by the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau and the Hubei Provincial People's Government, a domestic first-class discipline construction university in Hubei Province, and the South Asia Southeast Asia University Alliance.

Selected as the first batch of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, it is an important research and development base of national food, animal husbandry, feed and aquatic products industries, an education and training base of national grain industry (Wuhan) and a national food safety publicity and education base.

The school originated from Wuhan Accounting Secondary Technical School and was founded in 195 1. It once belonged to the former Ministry of Grain, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Domestic Trade. 1980 Wuhan institute of grain industry was established with the approval of the State Council; 1993, renamed Wuhan Institute of Food Industry; During the period of 1998, a management system was established, which combined the central and local governments and focused on Hubei Province.

1999, renamed Wuhan Institute of Technology; In 2000 and 2003, the former Wuhan Traffic Health School and the former Hubei General Technical Engineering School were merged as a whole. 20 13 was renamed Wuhan University of Light Industry.

As of 202 1, 1 1, the school has two campuses, Changqing and gold and silver lake, with an area of 1 10,000 square meters and a construction area of 600,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 368 million yuan; The library has more than 1.77 million paper documents, 53 databases of various types, and 1.87 million electronic books.

At present, there are nearly 1.500 faculty members, and more than 200 full-time teachers 1.200, including more than 650 teachers with senior titles, and teachers with doctoral and master's degrees account for more than 90% of the total number of full-time teachers; More than 20,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students; There are 17 teaching departments and 70 undergraduate majors.

There are 70 master's programs in two disciplines, the category of master's degree authorization 1 1, and the field of master's degree authorization 16.