Yangtze University was formed in April 2003 by the merger of Jianghan Petroleum Institute (formerly a university directly under the Ministry of Petroleum Industry), Hubei Agricultural College (formerly separated from Huazhong Agricultural College), Jingzhou Normal College and Hubei Medical College of Health Workers. It is a key construction university in Hubei Province and the largest comprehensive university with the most comprehensive disciplines among Hubei provincial universities. It is also a university jointly established by China Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation (PetroChina), China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), China Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Hubei Provincial People's Government.

At present, the school has a postdoctoral research mobile station in the first-level discipline of geological resources and geological engineering, three doctoral programs in the first-level discipline of geological resources and geological engineering, oil and gas engineering and crop science, and eight doctoral programs in two disciplines. There are 23 first-level master programs and two master programs 1 10. There are 83 undergraduate majors.

Among them, there are six national specialties such as resource exploration engineering, exploration technology and engineering, petroleum engineering, agronomy, mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, chemical engineering and technology, and electronic information engineering and civil engineering 1 1 Hubei brand specialties. Undergraduate majors involve economics, law and science.