School profile
University of South China is a comprehensive university jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Health and Wellness Commission, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, China National Nuclear Corporation and the Hunan Provincial People's Government. In March 2000, Central South Institute of Technology and Hengyang Medical College merged to form South China University, and in June 2002, the Sixth Research Institute of Nuclear Industry merged. The school is a key university supported by the basic capacity building project of colleges and universities in the central and western regions of the country, an excellent engineer and excellent doctor education and training plan approved by the Ministry of Education, and a number of undergraduate enrollment institutions. ?
The school has formed a discipline professional system which focuses on engineering and medicine, and nine disciplines, such as philosophy, economics, law, literature, science, management and art, develop in a coordinated way. There are 67 undergraduate majors, 24 master's degree authorization points for first-level disciplines, and 19 master's degree authorization categories; There are 5 authorized points for doctoral degrees in first-level disciplines; There are three post-doctoral research stations in the first-level discipline. The school has 15 national first-class undergraduate majors, including 2/kloc-0 national majors, national defense key majors and shortage majors, excellent planning majors and comprehensive reform pilot majors, 7 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, virtual simulation experimental teaching centers and practice education bases, 7 national first-class excellent courses, 3 national excellent courses and excellent open courses. There are 35 provincial-level school-enterprise cooperation talent training demonstration bases, innovation and entrepreneurship-driven employment demonstration bases, innovation and entrepreneurship incubation demonstration bases for college students, and 425 comprehensive practice bases.
The school was shortlisted in Times Higher Education, ranking among universities, disciplines and emerging economies in the world, and among provincial universities. The school has been rated as a national university with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, an advanced collective for enrollment in ordinary colleges and universities, an advanced collective for youth employment and entrepreneurship education, and a national military cultural education base. It is a civilized unit, a national defense education base and an advanced student aid unit in Hunan Province. The Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology was selected as the first batch of pilot departments for comprehensive reform of "three rounds of education" in China.