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Who founded Wuhan University?
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Wuhan University, referred to as Wuda for short, located in Wuhan, is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of China. Ranked among the national "double first-class", "985 project" and "2 1 1 project"; Selected as an independent audit institution with degree authorization, Everest Plan, Strong Foundation Plan, 20 1 1 plan,1plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent legal talent education and training plan, excellent doctoral education and training plan, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, and national new engineering plan. First-class network security college construction demonstration project universities, China government scholarship for overseas students in China, national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, national college students' cultural quality education base, mass entrepreneurship innovation demonstration base and top-notch student training plan 2.0 base are members of Eurasian Pacific University Alliance, University General Education Alliance, China University Planetary Science Alliance, Legal Education Innovation Alliance and Medical "Double First-class" Construction Alliance. The history of the school can be traced back to 1893, and Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, established a self-improvement school at the invitation of the Qing government. After inheritance and evolution, it was named National Wuhan University in 1928, which was the first batch of national universities in modern China. In 2000, Wuhan University merged with Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University to form the new Wuhan University. In September, 2022, the official website of the school showed that the school covers an area of 5 195 mu with a building area of 2.8 million square meters. There are 34 colleges in 6 universities, 3 tertiary hospitals, and 127 undergraduate majors. There are 49 first-class doctoral programs and 59 first-class master programs; There are 3,862 full-time teachers, 29,450 undergraduates, 20,085 postgraduates, 86 doctoral students, and 623 international students.