The Three Gorges University is located in Yichang, a sub-central city of Hubei Province and the capital of hydropower. It is a comprehensive university jointly established by China people, Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Provincial People's Government, and a key construction university in Hubei Province.
Three Gorges University has offered full-time junior college education since 1949, full-time undergraduate education since 1978, full-time postgraduate education since 1996, and jointly trained doctoral students with brother universities such as Wuhan University since 1998. In March 2000, it was directly under the former Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the former State Power Company. In 20 13, he officially obtained the right to confer doctoral degrees and began to train doctoral students independently.
Three Gorges University is a doctoral degree awarding unit approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, a winner of UHV Scholarship Fund, an excellent engineer education and training program of the Ministry of Education, an evaluation unit of excellent undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education, a construction unit of the demonstration base for studying in China of the Ministry of Education, a leading unit of "201Plan" Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center, and a vice-president unit of the Higher Education Branch of China Water Conservancy Education Association. The Three Gorges University, the governing unit of the 4th Yellow River Research Association, has the qualification of enrolling students from Hong Kong and Macao without examination, recommending outstanding undergraduates to study for master's degree without examination, and undertaking the qualification of China government scholarship to train international students.