The headquarters of Yangtze University (Yu) is located in Jingzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with Wuhan campus. It is a national "Small 2 1 1 Project" key construction university, the first batch of key undergraduate universities in Hubei Province, and the education and training plan for outstanding engineers, outstanding agricultural and forestry talents and outstanding doctors of the Ministry of Education.
Yangtze University has 13 provincial key disciplines and "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" key disciplines. Have the right to confer doctoral degrees and recommend outstanding undergraduate graduates to study for master's degrees without taking the test. It is an "excellent" university evaluated by the Ministry of Education, a national demonstration unit of cooperative education in Industry-University-Research, and an innovative base for graduate students of petroleum science in Hubei Province. It is a university that implements the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and the innovative experimental area of talent training mode, and it is also a university that implements the experimental plan of top-notch innovative talents training in ordinary universities in Hubei Province and the talent training plan of strategic emerging (pillar) industries.