The campus of Yangtze University is scattered, because the main campus is located on the bank of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, and the surrounding environment is very poor. Moreover, there have been incidents of polluting steel mills around schools, and students have been taught to kneel down and beg for the relocation of polluting steel mills.

The new campus of the school was chosen in Wuhan, not only because Wuhan is a famous university town and a big city in China, but more importantly, it has all the resources that Jingzhou can provide for students.

Although Wuhan Campus is a newly-built campus, the old major of Yangtze University is still in Jingzhou Campus. Wuhan Campus only moved some majors from the main campus, so the main campus is still stronger than Wuhan Campus.