Wuhan University of Technology

Wuhan University of Technology traces its origin to 1898, when Zhang Zhidong, then Governor-General of the Hu-Guang regions, proposed a school of technology inside the Bureau of Westernization, and the Hubei Institution of Technology opened with four subjects: civil engineering, machine manufacturing, dyeing and weaving, and physics and chemistry.

The present university took shape on 27 May 2000, when three institutions – the former Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan Transportation University and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University – merged. It is a state key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education, jointly developed with the Ministry of Transport, and among the first batch admitted to the 211 Project and the Double-First Class Initiative.

Three campuses, Mafangshan, Yujiatou and South Lake, sit in Wuhan, Hubei, and the academic map runs from materials science, transportation, naval architecture, automotive and mechanical engineering to civil engineering and architecture, information engineering, management and the School of Art and Design. Teaching and administrative staff number 5,441, and the university reports national science and technology prizes since 2000.

It frames its education around student cultivation as its essence and academic development as its priority, and keeps dedicated structures for international education.