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Xiangtan University, referred to as "Xiangda University" for short, is a comprehensive national key university, a university jointly established by the Hunan Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education, and a university jointly established by the Hunan Provincial People's Government and the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (Class A).
It has been selected into the national "11/plan", "excellent legal talents education and training plan", the national innovative experimental plan for college students, the first batch of national applied mathematics centers, the first batch of national intellectual property information service centers for universities, the collaborative innovation centers jointly established by provinces and ministries, and the basic capacity building projects for universities in the central and western regions.
State-level new engineering research and practice projects, the first batch of national patent collaborative application pilot units, the national red tourism innovation and development research base, the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the national college students' cultural quality education base, the national high-level university public graduate program, and the China Municipal Government scholarship for foreign students in China.
The school was founded on 1958. 1974 approved the resumption of school. 1978 was approved as a comprehensive national key university. 198 1 year, the school became the first batch of master's degree authorized units in China.
In September 2020, the school official website showed that the school has a graduate school, 23 colleges and teaching departments; 3 national key disciplines; There are 15 postdoctoral research stations, 15 first-class doctoral programs, 3 1 first-class master programs, and 19 master program categories; Full-time teachers1502; There are 37,576 full-time students, including 7 155 doctoral and master students.
Key disciplines in Hunan Province (19): applied economics, theoretical economics, law, public management, library information and archives management, China language and literature, foreign language and literature, philosophy, China history, mathematics, computer science and technology, information and communication engineering, physics, mechanical engineering, mechanics, material science and engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering and technology.