CTGU consists of30colleges,72undergraduate programs covering nine fields including science, engineering, medicine, arts, economics, management, law, education and fine arts. There are 5 national-level characteristic disciplines for undergraduates; 10 provincial-level branded disciplines for undergraduates; 7 disciplines selected as the instalment of“A plan for Educating and Training Outstanding Engineers”by the Ministry of Education,10bachelor’s program in English medium; and2Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs; 2primary discipline doctoral programs,22primary discipline programs for graduate students, 17professional program for graduate students (Engineering, MBA, MTI etc.) and 11 provincial key disciplines. CTGU has a large number of enrolled students, comprising more than 22,293full-time undergraduate students,4,266postgraduate students and1365international students.
CTGU has2national level experimental teaching demonstration center; 2 national level Engineering practice education centers; 1 national wild scientific observation research station of landslide in the Three Gorges area, Hubei Province, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education in the Three Gorges reservoir area, 1 engineering technology research center of the Ministry of Education in geological disaster of the Three Gorges reservoir area, 1 ecology and environment engineering technology center of the Ministry of Education in the Three Gorges reservoir area, 1 collaborative innovation center with the joint effort from Hubei Provincial government in geological disaster and eco-environment of the Three Gorges reservoir area, 7 provincial and ministerial-level key laboratories on disaster prevention and reduction, construction and management of hydraulic project, design and maintenance of mechanical equipment, research and utilization of natural product, operation and control of cascade hydropower station, Intelligent visual monitoring of hydropower engineering , tumour microcirculation and immunotherapy, 2 former key laboratories of State Power Corporation on hydropower station simulation and geotechnical study, 19 teaching experiment(training) centres,8provincial-level teaching experiment demonstration centres, and over 160practical training centres and cooperative bases between education and production.
CTGU adheres to the principle of promoting development through opening up, organizes multi-level, wide range international cooperation and communication, insists the development path of internationalization, learning advanced educational concept and experience of other countries. It also ushers in high quality education resources, promotes the development of education reform, emphasizes the training of talents with international education background, promotes the international status, influences and the competitiveness of the university. In 2011, CTGU became one of the 52 authorized universities to recruit MBBS (English-teaching) students, and was authorized by the Ministry of Education to organize Sino-foreign cooperative education program for undergraduates of Electronic Engineering and Automation; CTGU obtained an exemption qualification to recruit students from Hong Kong in 2013; and was authorized by the Ministry of Education to organize Sino-foreign cooperative education program for undergraduates of Tourism Management. In recent years, the University has invited 3 Nobel prize winners to lecture in CTGU, and welcomed 70 international delegations of nearly 1000 person-times per year. Furthermore, CTGU applies extensive exchanges and communications with other countries and regions, and keeps close relationships with diplomatic envoys of the USA, France, Nepal, Maldives, ROK, India, and Pakistan, etc. In recent years,the university successfully held“World Famous Scientists Lecturing in Hubei Province—Wuhan Forum”in May, 2013. The visits of world famous scholars and government officers significantly promoted the international cooperation and communication and expanded the reputation of CTGU. Moreover, big events are held in CTGU on regular basis, like“China Explore”competition—sunny sport trip for international students in China, No.5 competitions in 2013; and peach blossom festival, Happy Friday (T.G.I.F)English salon, etc. All the events above have greatly promoted and expanded the internationalization atmosphere in the campus.
At present, CTGU is carrying out the national education plan, impelling the construction and development of connotation and vigorously implementing the four principles of“characteristic development, innovative reform, opening education and leading brand”, sparing no effort to realize the educational goal as“Building a high-level and comprehensive university with distinctive hydropower characteristics”.
