Hubei University

Hubei University is a public comprehensive university in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, whose main campus stands beside Shahu Lake in the Wuchang district of the city.湖北大学是位于中国湖北省武汉市的一所公立综合性大学，主校区坐落在武昌城区的沙湖之畔。

Founded in 1931 as Hubei Provincial Education College, it took its present name in 1984, when the former Wuhan Teachers College was upgraded to university status after more than five decades as a teacher training institution.学校创办于1931年，前身为湖北省立教育学院，1984年由办学逾半个世纪的武汉师范学院改建为湖北大学。

The university is jointly administered by the Hubei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education, and it takes part in the national basic capacity building programme for higher education in central and western China.学校由湖北省人民政府与教育部共建，并入选国家中西部高校基础能力建设工程。

History

• In 1930 Huang Jianzhong, then director of the Hubei provincial education department, founded the Hubei Provincial Rural Teachers College at Baoji'an beside Shahu Lake in Wuchang, aiming to train teachers for rural schools across the province.1930年，时任湖北省教育厅厅长黄建中在武昌沙湖之滨的宝积庵创办湖北省立乡村师范学院，为全省乡村学校培养师资。
• In 1931 the ministry of education of the Nationalist government approved its renaming as Hubei Provincial Education College, with Huang Jianzhong as its first president and three initial units for agricultural education, rural education and rural teacher training.1931年，国民政府教育部批准学校更名为湖北省立教育学院，黄建中兼任首任院长，初设农事教育系、乡村教育系和乡村师范专修科。
• The college added a mass education programme in 1932 and an agricultural education programme in 1935, with four-year degree courses for departments and two-year certificate courses for the specialised programmes.学院于1932年增设民众教育专修科，1935年又增设农事教育专修科，各系为四年制本科，各专修科为二年制专科。
• In 1936, as full-scale war with Japan approached, the college was forced to suspend operations and its staff dispersed.1936年，中日战争形势一触即发，学院被迫停办，师生星散。
• The provincial government restored it in the autumn of 1941 at Wufeng Mountain in Enshi, the wartime provincial capital, under the New Hubei construction plan of provincial chairman Chen Cheng.1941年秋，湖北省政府依据省主席陈诚的《新湖北建设计划大纲》，在战时省会恩施的五峰山复校。
• In 1942 students protested against the long-standing practice of holding the presidency concurrently with the post of provincial education commissioner, and figures including the geologist Li Siguang helped invite Chen Yousong of Southwest Associated University to take the office.1942年，学生反对院长一职长期由省教育厅厅长兼任，经李四光等人出面，邀请西南联大的陈友松出任院长。
• Chen Yousong expanded the curriculum between 1942 and 1943, adding a history and geography programme, a one-year teacher training course, classes in music and physical education, and attached middle and primary schools.1942年至1943年间，陈友松扩充学科，增设史地专修科和一年制师资短训班，开办音乐、体育各班，并设立附中与附小。
• He resigned in July 1943 after disagreements over the running of the college with education commissioner Zhang Bojin and with Chen Cheng, and returned to Southwest Associated University.1943年7月，因与教育厅厅长张伯瑾及陈诚办学意见不合，陈友松辞职并返回西南联大。
• In the spring of 1944 the ministry of education reorganised the college as National Hubei Teachers College, known as Guoshi, placing it directly under the national government rather than the province.1944年春，国民政府教育部将学校改组为国立湖北师范学院，简称「国师」，改隶国民政府教育部而非省管。
• By 1945 Guoshi had eight departments, covering education, Chinese, English, history and geography, mathematics, physics and chemistry, music, and physical education.至1945年，国师已设有教育、国文、英文、史地、数学、理化、音乐、体育八个系。
• After the war ended in 1945 the college did not return to Wuhan at once but moved to Jiangling and then to the Tongjia Garden in Shashi, where shortages of books, instruments and transport drove many professors to resign.1945年抗战结束后，学校未立即迁回武汉，而是先到江陵，再迁至沙市童家花园，图书仪器匮乏且交通不便，不少教授辞职。
• In the spring of 1947 more than 600 students petitioned from 26 February to 6 April for a return to Wuhan, winning support from students at National Wuhan University, Zhonghua University and other city institutions.1947年春，600余名学生自2月26日至4月6日请愿要求迁回武汉，并得到国立武汉大学、中华大学等校学生的声援。
• In May 1948 the college finally moved back to Wuhan, lodging first in the affiliated hospital of National Wuhan University and later in two middle schools in Hankou while its books and instruments followed.1948年5月，国师终于迁回武汉，先借住国立武汉大学附属医院，九十月间又迁往汉口的中学，图书仪器随后运抵。
• A financial scandal in July 1948 led to a confrontation at the home of president Wang Zhifu, and on 4 August the ministry ordered the college dissolved and 25 student leaders punished.1948年7月，因签发空头支票引发断炊风波，学生前往院长王治孚住宅交涉，8月4日教育部电令解散国师并惩办25名学生。
• The order was withdrawn on 4 September 1948 after protests by students and professors and after intercession by Wuhan University, and a new president was appointed while a court case against Wang Zhifu proceeded.在师生抗议和武汉大学等方面调处下，1948年9月4日教育部收回成命并任命新院长，法院随后对王治孚提起诉讼。
• On 16 July 1949 the military control commission took over the college, which was closed and its books, instruments and other property transferred to the Hubei Education College that succeeded it.1949年7月16日，中南军事管制委员会文教接管部接管国师，学校停办整理，图书仪器等校产移交继办的湖北省教育学院。
• The Hubei Education College opened on 15 October 1949 and by 1952 offered nine subject areas to 753 students, with attached primary and middle schools used for teaching practice.湖北省教育学院于1949年10月15日开学，至1952年设有教育、语文、数学等九个科，在校学生753人，并附设中小学供实习之用。
• In the 1952 national restructuring most of its staff and students were merged into Huachong University, the main predecessor of today's Central China Normal University, and the remainder formed the Hubei Teachers Further Education College.1952年全国院系调整中，学院大部分师生并入华中大学，即今华中师范大学的前身，留下的部分人员与校产组成湖北省教师进修学院。
• Renamed Hubei Teachers Junior College in April 1954, the school moved to Mafangshan in 1955, and in 1956 its Chinese and history sections were split off to create the Wuhan Teachers Junior College.1954年4月学校改名为湖北师范专科学校，1955年迁址武昌马房山，1956年语文、历史两科分出组建武汉师范专科学校。
• In the autumn of 1957 the two junior colleges were merged at Baoji'an, where the combined school had 620 staff and 2,138 students in seven subject areas.1957年秋，两所师专在宝积庵合并，教职员工达620人，在校学生2,138人，设语文、历史、数学、物理、化学、生物、地理七个科。
• On 8 August 1958 it became Wuhan Teachers College, with 1,543 staff, four departments and three certificate programmes, and it remained under Wuhan city administration until 1984.1958年8月8日，学校改为武汉师范学院，教职员1,543人，设四个系和三个专修科，直至1984年仍由武汉市领导。
• On 11 August 1984 the ministry approved its upgrade to Hubei University, the nameplate was unveiled on 26 September by governor Huang Zhizhen and deputy party secretary Qian Yunlu, and the new university opened with 10 departments, 3,072 students and 520 mu of land.1984年8月11日教育部同意改建为湖北大学，9月26日省长黄知真、省委副书记钱运录揭牌，建校初设10个系、本专科学生3,072人，占地520亩。

Academics

• The university has 18 academic schools and offers 78 undergraduate programmes across 12 disciplinary fields, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art.学校设有18个学科性学院，开设78个本科专业，覆盖哲、经、法、教、文、史、理、工、农、医、管、艺等12个学科门类。
• It awards doctoral degrees in 9 first-level disciplines and master's degrees in 27 first-level disciplines, and offers 19 professional master's categories.学校拥有9个博士学位授权一级学科、27个硕士学位授权一级学科和19个硕士专业学位授权类别。
• It operates six postdoctoral research stations, and 146 of its teachers are qualified to supervise doctoral students while 653 can supervise academic master's students.学校设有6个博士后科研流动站，146名教师具有博士研究生招生资格，653名教师具有学术学位硕士研究生招生资格。
• It employs about 1,500 full-time teachers, of whom 928 hold professorial or associate professorial titles, and it counts two double-appointed academicians among its senior staff.学校有专任教师1,500余人，其中正、副教授928余人，另有双聘院士2人。
• It enrols about 19,000 full-time undergraduates and 6,000 doctoral and master's students, and its 17 national first-class undergraduate programmes include Chinese language and literature and biotechnology.学校有普通全日制本专科生1.9万余人，博士、硕士研究生6000余人，汉语言文学、生物技术等17个专业入选国家级一流本科专业建设点。
• The State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, co-built by the province and the ministry, is its flagship research platform and supports work on industrial enzymes and green chemical processes.省部共建生物催化与酶工程国家重点实验室是学校的旗舰科研平台，主攻工业酶与绿色化工过程。
• It also hosts a national-local joint engineering research centre for high-throughput drug screening and a national demonstration base for innovative talent training.学校还建有药物高通量筛选技术国家地方联合工程研究中心和国家创新人才培养示范基地。
• Two key laboratories of the Ministry of Education and six Hubei provincial key laboratories support its research, alongside 11 provincial engineering technology research centres and four international science cooperation bases.学校建有教育部重点实验室2个、湖北省重点实验室6个、11个工程技术研究中心和4个国际科技合作基地。
• Chemistry and materials science have entered the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators rankings, and both are listed among the university's strongest research areas.化学与材料科学两个学科进入ESI国际学科排名全球前1%，是学校实力最强的研究领域之一。
• Materials science and chemistry, Chinese language and literature with philosophy, and biology are designated Hubei first-class disciplines under the provincial double first-class programme.材料科学与化学、中国语言文学与哲学文化、生物学入选湖北省「国内一流学科」建设学科。
• The university runs 17 national first-class undergraduate programmes and six national characteristic programmes, and it offers two national top-quality online courses.学校有17个国家级一流本科专业建设点、6个国家级特色专业，并获批2门国家精品在线开放课程。
• Its Chucai Programme for top students was accompanied by the creation of the first general education college among Hubei universities, and it has launched nearly 20 reform classes for talent training.学校实施培养拔尖创新人才的「楚才计划」，成立湖北高校首家通识教育学院，并开办近20个人才培养模式改革试验班。
• It has established two Confucius Institutes, with the University of Memphis in 2007 and with São Paulo State University in 2008, and both were later named Confucius Institute of the Year.学校于2007年与美国孟菲斯大学、2008年与巴西圣保罗州立大学合作建立两所孔子学院，两校孔院均曾获评全球先进孔子学院。
• It publishes the Journal of Hubei University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), which is listed among China's top 100 social science journals, and it runs the Hubei Cultural Construction Research Institute, one of ten new provincial think tanks.学校主办的《湖北大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》是全国百强社科期刊，湖北文化建设研究院入选湖北省委重点建设的十大新型智库。
• Nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials science and engineering, energy science and engineering, chemical engineering and biotechnology appear in the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.纳米科学与技术、材料科学与工程、能源科学与工程、化学工程和生物工程进入软科世界一流学科排名。
• Its library holds 2.44 million printed volumes, 2.99 million e-books and 283 Chinese and foreign databases.图书馆馆藏中外文纸质文献243.74万册、电子图书298.63万册，中外文数据库283个。
• Research income supports more than 30 university-enterprise research centres, and the university holds top-grade planning qualifications in tourism and land use, having completed more than 40 percent of Hubei's tourism plans.学校建有30余个校企研发中心，具有旅游规划和土地规划甲级资质，主持完成全省40%以上的旅游规划。
• It has won one award from the National Science Conference and three second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and it operates two national basic discipline talent training and research bases.学校曾获全国科学大会奖1项、国家科技进步二等奖3项，并建有2个国家基础学科人才培养与科学研究基地。

Campus

• Hubei University operates three campuses in Wuhan, the Wuchang campus at 368 Youyi Avenue, the Yangluo campus in Xinzhou District and the Hankou campus at Shengxing Road in Zhanjiaji.湖北大学在武汉设有三个校区，分别是武昌区友谊大道368号的武昌校区、新洲区阳逻的阳逻校区和江岸区谌家矶兴盛路的汉口校区。
• The Wuchang campus, the headquarters, occupies the historic Baoji'an site beside Shahu Lake and houses the main administration, the library and most teaching buildings.武昌校区为校本部，坐落在沙湖之滨的宝积庵旧址，集中了主要行政机关、图书馆和多数教学楼。
• The university covers more than 2,100 mu, about 140 hectares, with 710,000 square metres of floor space and fixed assets valued at 1.55 billion yuan.学校总占地面积2,100余亩，约合140公顷，校舍总建筑面积71万平方米，固定资产15.5亿元。
• Teaching and research instruments are valued at 473 million yuan, and the library building alone covers 47,300 square metres.教学科研仪器设备总值4.73亿元，图书馆建筑面积达4.73万平方米。
• The library is fronted by Qiushi Square, a central gathering place on the Wuchang campus, and its reading rooms serve more than 25,000 students and staff.图书馆前的求索广场是武昌校区的中心活动场地，馆内阅览室服务全校两万五千余名师生。
• Landmarks include the Shuiyue Pavilion on Shahu Lake, the Tian Jiabing Education College building and the university's second gymnasium.校内景观包括沙湖水月亭、田家炳教育学院大楼和湖北大学二号体育馆。
• The Yangluo campus houses the general education college, which brings first-year students together in a residential setting before they move to their major schools.阳逻校区设通识教育学院，一年级学生先在此集中住宿学习，随后进入各专业学院。
• The Hankou campus hosts Hubei University Zhixing College, an independent college, and the university canteens were included among the top 100 canteens of Chinese universities.汉口校区为独立学院湖北大学知行学院所在地，学校食堂曾入选中国高校「百佳」食堂。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, Hubei University is placed in the 901-1000 band.在软科发布的2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，湖北大学位列第901-1000名区间。
• It ranks 1,090th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities ranking.学校在2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单中位列第1,090名。
• It did not enter the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
• It did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• Hubei University has been directly administered by the provincial government since January 1984, when the provincial party committee ended four decades of municipal control.1984年1月，湖北省委决定将学校改由省直接领导和管理，结束此前由武汉市领导的管理体制。
• The Ministry of Education rated its undergraduate teaching excellent in 2004, and the university passed the ministry's undergraduate teaching review in 2017.学校2004年在教育部本科教学工作水平评估中获评优秀，2017年通过教育部本科教学工作审核评估。
• It was designated a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education in 2016 and is counted among national innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration universities.学校2016年获批国家级深化创新创业教育改革示范高校，是国家级创新创业示范高校。
• In the fourth round of national discipline assessment, released in 2017, 15 of its disciplines ranked first among Hubei provincial universities and eight ranked in the top three in Hubei.在2017年公布的全国第四轮学科评估中，学校有15个学科在湖北省属高校中排名第一，8个学科在湖北地区高校中排名前三。
• The Hubei County Governance Research Institute is one of the province's reform think tanks, and the university has repeatedly appeared in the top ten of a ranking of universities serving Hubei's economy.湖北县域治理研究院入选湖北改革智库，学校多次进入在鄂高校服务经济社会发展排行榜前十名。
• Hubei University leads three collaborative innovation centres under the province's 2011 plan and participates in one national and three provincial centres, a status that underpins its applied research funding.学校是3个湖北省「2011计划」协同创新中心的牵头单位，并参与1个国家级和3个省级协同创新中心。

Student life

• The university's five-a-side football team, formed in 2003, has won 16 national championships and represented China five times at the world university championship, finishing seventh for the country's best result in the event.校五人制足球队自2003年组建以来获得16次全国冠军，5次代表中国参加世界大学生五人制足球锦标赛，最好成绩为第7名。
• Its dragon and lion dance team, founded in 2006, won two world titles in the northern lion category at the fifth World Dragon and Lion Dance Championships.校龙狮团自2006年组建以来，在第五届世界龙狮锦标赛北狮项目上获得2个世界冠军。
• Students have taken first prizes in the Challenge Cup extracurricular academic competition, the national mathematical modelling contest and the electronic design contest.学生多次在全国「挑战杯」课外学术科技作品竞赛、数学建模大赛和电子设计大赛中获得一等奖。
• About 670 national and provincial innovation and entrepreneurship training projects have been approved for students, supported by three national industry-education integration bases.学校获批国家级、省级大学生创新创业训练计划项目近670项，并建有3个国家级产教融合基地。
• Sixty-eight online courses are offered on Chinese MOOC platforms, including the national higher education MOOC alliance and XuetangX.学校有68门在线开放课程上线中国大学MOOC、学堂在线和全国地方高校优课联盟等平台。
• The university began recruiting international students in the 1960s and now hosts about 200 degree and exchange students from abroad, supported by links with more than 100 institutions in over 30 countries.学校自上世纪60年代开始招收国际学生，现有各类国际学生近200人，与30多个国家和地区的100多所高校及机构保持合作。
• Until the winter of 2008 two classrooms stayed open all night for study, a practice the university ended on the grounds of student safety and health.学校曾长期开放两间通宵自习室，直到2008年冬天以学生安全和作息规律为由取消。
• The university reports that its graduates' one-time employment rate has remained above 90 percent and that it has won six national teaching achievement awards and 87 provincial awards.学校毕业生一次性就业率始终保持在90%以上，曾获6项国家级教学成果奖和87项省级教学成果奖。
• It hosts one national base for college students' cultural quality education, two national off-campus practice bases and two national demonstration bases for joint professional postgraduate training.学校建有1个国家大学生文化素质教育基地、2个国家级大学生校外实践教育基地和2个国家级专业学位研究生联合培养示范基地。

Notable people

• Huang Jianzhong, an education official in the Republican era, founded the predecessor college in 1930 and served as its first president after the 1931 renaming.黄建中是民国时期的教育官员，1930年创办学校前身，并在1931年更名后兼任首任院长。
• Chen Yousong, an educator from Southwest Associated University, led the college from 1942 to 1943 and expanded its departments, attached schools and teacher training courses.陈友松是西南联大的教育家，1942年至1943年主持校务，扩充了院系、附校和师资培训课程。
• Wang Dianji, a logician who served as the first president of National Hubei Teachers College, wrote the lyrics of its anthem, from which the present motto is drawn.汪奠基是逻辑学家，曾任国立湖北师范学院首任院长，其撰写的院歌歌词是现行校训的出处。
• Li Siguang, the geologist who helped found China's petroleum industry, supported the college's reorganisation as a national institution and helped recruit its president in 1942.李四光是帮助创建中国石油工业的地质学家，他支持学校改组为国立院校，并在1942年协助延聘院长。
• Chen Cheng, chairman of Hubei Province during the war, included the college's restoration in his New Hubei construction plan in 1941.陈诚在抗战期间任湖北省主席，1941年将学校复校纳入其《新湖北建设计划大纲》。
• Wang Zhifu was president of National Hubei Teachers College during the 1948 crisis that briefly led to the college's dissolution.王治孚在1948年危机期间任国立湖北师范学院院长，学校一度被教育部下令解散。
• Wu Chuanxi, a mathematician, became one of the youngest university presidents in China when he took charge of Hubei University.数学家吴传喜出任湖北大学校长时，是中国当时最年轻的大学校长之一。
• Huang Zhizhen, then governor of Hubei, unveiled the Hubei University nameplate together with Qian Yunlu on 26 September 1984.时任湖北省省长黄知真与钱运录于1984年9月26日共同为湖北大学揭牌。
• Qian Yunlu, then deputy secretary of the Hubei provincial party committee, attended the 1984 ceremony and later served as a provincial party secretary in northeast China.钱运录时任湖北省委副书记，出席1984年揭牌仪式，后赴东北担任省委书记。
• The Tian Jiabing Education College building is named after Tin Ka Ping, the Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist whose foundation has funded school buildings across mainland China.田家炳教育学院大楼以香港实业家、慈善家田家炳命名，其基金会长期资助内地校舍建设。