With the approval by the State Council of China, new Wuhan University was founded on August 2nd, 2000 with the amalgamation of four first-rate universities - original Wuhan University, Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, and Hubei Medical University. At present Wuhan University has 6 faculties and 34 schools, covering 12 areas, namely Philosophy, Economics, Law, Education, Literature, History, Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Management and Arts, with 122 bachelor degree programs, 342 master degree programs, and 235 doctoral degree programs, including 8 undergraduate programs and 12 graduate programs teaching in English. There are numbers of large well-equipped teaching buildings, laboratories, gymnasiums, sports grounds, swimming pools, archive buildings, and a specimen building. It now has 5 key State-level laboratories, 2 national research centers of engineering, 2 national station for research and observation on field science, 9 key laboratories at the level of Ministry of Education, 5 engineering research centers at the level of Ministry of Education, 7 national research bases for humanities and social sciences, 10 national bases for basic science talent development, and 1 national education base for cultural development of university students.
The university now has more than 50,000 students, including 26,000 graduates, 2750 international students. The teaching staff consists of more than 3,700 teachers, including 2,700 or so professors and associate professors, 11 academicians of Chinese Academy of sciences, 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 3 academicians of the international Eurasian Academy of Sciences and 10 well-known senior scholars of arts and social sciences.
During the last ten years, the university has established relations of academic cooperation and exchanges with over 415 universities, colleges and scientific research institutions in more than 45 countries and regions.
Since the 1950s, Wuhan University has taken a lead in enrolling international students in China. Ever since then, the university has recruited and trained several thousand foreign students coming from more than 100 different countries and regions worldwide. All students have received systematic training and a substantial part of them have earned Bachelor, Master or Doctoral Degree.
Wuhan University accepts international students into its Bachelor, Master, Doctoral programs as well as other advanced programs in liberal arts, sciences, and medicine. The university also provides a special Bachelor of Arts program called the Chinese Language for International Students, and 4 undergraduate programs and 13 graduate programs teaching in English.
The School of International Education of Wuhan University is a dedicated school for foreign students enrollment, administration and management, as well as the Chinese language teaching and training. It is also one of the few centers for HSK examination and for the qualification examination for the teachers teaching Chinese language to foreigners in China. The college, with abundant teaching resources and quality teaching and scientific research strength, has 31 teachers giving Chinese language courses to foreigners. Among them, 14 are professors or associate professors, 6 are the members of the World Chinese Language Society for Foreigners, and 31 are the members of China Chinese Language Society for Foreigners.
