Hunan University is located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is a national key university with a long history since Yuelu Academy was directly under the Ministry of Education, and it is also a national key construction university of "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project". The school has always insisted on vigorously developing postgraduate education and attaching importance to the cultivation of high-level talents.

As early as the early 1940s, the Department of Mining of the University's former Institute of Technology began to recruit graduate students. The school has more than 0/0000 graduate students, including nearly 2000 doctoral students and more than 8000 master students. In addition to actively participating in scientific research projects and various social practice activities of their own disciplines and majors, graduate students in school have also teamed up to participate in various academic exchanges and competitions and won many awards, becoming an important new force in scientific research work of the school.