Brief Introduction of Wuhan Campus，Yangtze University
Wuhan Campus of Yangtze University is located at the Caidian district, Wuhan City, near the beautiful Zhiyin lake. The campus is embraced by clear water on three sides, and thus it has excellent ecological environment and beautiful scenery.Wuhan Campus was put into use on March, 2012, with a total area of 672 mu, among which the total construction area is 200,000 square meters.
Based on a management model of “ Department-based Autonomous Management, Integration of High-level Administration and Departments, and Relative Independence in Department affairs, Wuhan Campus sets up the School District Management Committee, with 4 subordinate departments: the General Affairs Department, Student Affairs Department, Logistics Support Department, and Security Department.
As a cultivation base for high-quality talents, an important place for high-level scientific and technological innovation, and a highland for introduction of high-level talents, Yangtze University devotes to forge Wuhan campus into a leading area of first-class disciplines and professions, a demonstration area of international education and open education, and an experimental zone of mechanism reform and management innovation.
There are 5 colleges including School of Resources and Environment Protection, School of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, School of Earth Science, School of Petroleum Engineering ( with newly-established School of Chinese-Russia Energy and New Energy College）and School of Communication. There is one Unconventional Oil and Gas Collaborative Innovation Center of provincial and ministerial co-construction at Wuhan campus.
There are about 542 faculty members, and 367 of them are full-time teachers with doctorate, with 88 being senior engineers, with 172 being associate senior engineers. There are 9 National Level Talents, 1 National Outstanding Youth，1 National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young People, 26 Provincial and ministerial level talents, 3 nationwide outstanding teachers , 6 teachers entitled to State Council allowance, 9 teachers enjoying the allowance of the provincial government, 6 young and middle-aged experts of outstanding contributions of Hubei province, 4 famous teachers in Hubei Province, and 6 high-level talents of the new century in Hubei Province.
There are 7882 full-time students at school, with 6146 undergraduates, 1736 Students studying for master's and doctor's degrees.Wuhan campus is equipped with 19 undergraduate majors, among which there are 6 National first-class undergraduate disciplines construction points , 4 Provincial first-class undergraduate disciplines construction points，and 3 international engineering education certificated undergraduate majors。
Wuhan Campus now has 2 first-level disciplines authorized to offer doctorate degree, and 6 first-level disciplines authorized to offer maser degree. According to the First-class Academic Subjects Ranking List of GDI University, 4 disciplines rank national top 50, with Petroleum and Gas Engineering ranking 6th, Earth and Physics Science ranking the18th, Geological Resources and Engineering ranking 27th, and Geology ranking 27th. Earth Science ,Earth Engineering enters and Environment and Ecology 1% ESI world ranking, injecting new power for the development of subject groups.
Over the past decade since its service, Wuhan Campus has undertaken 4387 scientific research projects at all levels with the total funds received of 17.19 billion, among which more than 0.2 billions are received continuously in 2021 and 2022. 218 National Nature and Science Projects are approved, including 2 Key Fund Projects and 1 Outstanding Youth Fund Project, 89 General Programs, 120 Youth Fund Programs and other 5 Fund programs. We were granted 1 Special Award of participating in national science and technology advance projects, 3 first-prize, and 2 second-prize. As the first unit to complete provincial and ministerial programs, Wuhan Campus was awarded 8 first-prize, 20 second-prize, and 20 third-prize. There are 293 invention patents approved, 207 new and practical patents, and 12 international patents. A total number of 1905 retrieval papers have been published, with 233T1 high-level theses. There are 2 newly- built national platforms, 7 provincial and ministerial platforms, 3 university-enterprise con-construction platforms, and another 2 national platforms being under construction. （updated in April，2024）
