Wuhan University

Wuhan University, abbreviated WHU, is a public comprehensive research university in the Wuchang district of Wuhan, Hubei province, China, administered and funded by the Ministry of Education and a member of Project 985, Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.武汉大学（Wuhan University，简称武大、WHU）是一所位于中国湖北省武汉市武昌区的公立综合性研究型大学，由中华人民共和国教育部主管并拨款，是“985 工程”“211 工程”与“双一流”建设高校。

Its origins are officially traced to the Ziqiang Institute founded in 1893, and it now occupies a campus of 5,178 mu on the south shore of East Lake below Luojia Hill, places joint 165th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and is consistently ranked among the leading universities of mainland China.学校官方以其前身 1893 年创办的自强学堂为办学起点，现坐拥东湖南岸、珞珈山麓的 5178 亩校园，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 165，长期位居中国大陆高校前列。

History

Among the earlier modern schools in Wuhan were the Lianghu Academy, founded in 1890 by Zhang Zhidong, then governor-general of Huguang, and the Ziqiang Institute of 1893, which the university now takes as its official point of origin.武汉较早的新式学堂包括时任湖广总督张之洞于 1890 年创办的两湖书院，以及 1893 年创办的自强学堂；学校如今即以自强学堂作为官方办学起点。

In 1902 the Ziqiang Institute was renamed the Dialect Institute while the Lianghu Academy was merged with the Jianghan Academy and the Jingxin Academy to form the Lianghu Grand Academy, which in 1904, under the authorised school regulations, became the Lianghu Higher Academy of Letters and in 1906 was renamed once more as the Lianghu General Normal Academy.1902 年，自强学堂更名为方言学堂；与此同时，两湖书院与江汉书院、经心书院合并，改为两湖大学堂。1904 年，按《奏定学堂章程》，两湖大学堂改名两湖文高等学堂，1906 年又再次更名为两湖总师范学堂。

In 1911 the Dialect Institute was closed by the Qing government on the grounds of financial difficulty and disorderly conduct, the Lianghu General Normal Academy also closed at the time of the Xinhai Revolution, and a Wuchang military officers school was established on the Dialect Institute site.1911 年，方言学堂被清政府以“经费困难、校风不端”为由停办；辛亥革命时两湖总师范学堂亦告停办，方言学堂旧址上则建立了武昌军官学校。

After the founding of the Republic, the National Wuchang Higher Normal School was established in 1913 on the site of the Wuchang military officers school, one of the six national higher normal schools planned by the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang government.民国成立后，国立武昌高等师范学校于 1913 年在武昌军官学校校址成立，是北洋政府教育部规划设立的六所国立高等师范学校之一。

In September 1923 it was renamed the National Wuchang Normal University, in September 1924 the National Wuchang University, and in 1926 it was merged with the National Wuchang University of Commerce, the Hubei Provincial Medical University, the Hubei Provincial University of Legislation, the Hubei Provincial University of Liberal Arts and the private Wuchang Zhonghua University to form the National Wuchang Sun Yat-sen University, also known as the National Second Sun Yat-sen University, with a university department, six subjects, 17 departments and two institutes.1923 年 9 月，学校更名为国立武昌师范大学；1924 年 9 月又改称国立武昌大学；1926 年，它与国立武昌商科大学、湖北省立医科大学、湖北省立法科大学、湖北省立文科大学、私立武昌中华大学等合并为国立武昌中山大学，又称国立第二中山大学，设有大学部和文、理、法、经、医、预六科、17 个系与 2 个部。

In 1928 the Nanjing National Government established the National Wuhan University on the basis of the former National Wuchang Sun Yat-sen University, with four colleges covering liberal arts, law, science and engineering.1928 年，南京国民政府以原国立武昌中山大学为基础改建国立武汉大学，下设文、法、理、工四个学院。

In February 1929 the jurist Wang Shijie became the first formally appointed president of National Wuhan University, and he argued that the university should grow into one with colleges of arts, law, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine and a student body of ten thousand.1929 年 2 月，法学家王世杰成为国立武汉大学首位正式校长；他认为学校不能满足于已有的四个学院，提出要把学校办成拥有文、法、理、工、农、医六大学院的万人大学。

In August 1928 a committee for the buildings and equipment of the new campus was formed under the geologist Li Siguang as chairman with the forester Ye Yage as secretary, and it chose the scenic Luojia Hill in Wuchang as the site of the new university campus.1928 年 8 月，以地质学家李四光为委员长、林学家叶雅各为秘书的国立武汉大学新校舍建筑设备委员会成立，并选定风景秀丽的武昌珞珈山为大学新校址。

Li Siguang and Ye Yage invited the architect F. H. Kales, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a strong interest in Chinese architecture, to come from Shanghai to design the layout and planning of the campus, while Miao Enzhao, also an MIT graduate, was appointed supervising engineer.李四光与叶雅各邀请毕业于麻省理工学院建筑系、对中国建筑艺术颇有研究的建筑师开尔斯从上海来武汉设计校园总体布局和规划，并聘请同样毕业于麻省理工学院的缪恩钊任新校舍监造工程师。

The contractor Hanxiesheng lost about 400,000 yuan on the construction because of an error in its tender estimate and the rise in material prices after the 1931 Wuhan flood, yet Shen Zhusan honoured the original contract and completed the work to specification, only clearing his debts shortly before his death in 1941.由于投标估价失误以及 1931 年武汉水灾后原材料价格上涨，承包商汉协盛在武大建筑工程中亏损约 40 万元，但沈祝三坚守承诺，按原有合同保质保量完成施工，直到 1941 年去世前才还清债务。

Work on the first phase of the new campus began in March 1930, and in March 1932 the university moved from Dongchangkou into the new buildings at Luojia Hill.1930 年 3 月，新校舍一期工程正式开工；1932 年 3 月，学校由东厂口迁入珞珈山新校舍。

Graduate education began in 1935, and in 1936 the university established a college of agriculture, growing into a comprehensive university with colleges of arts, law, science, engineering and agriculture, fifteen departments and two research institutes, and in 1937 it held a joint entrance examination with National Peking University, National Tsinghua University, National Central University and National Zhejiang University.学校于 1935 年开办研究生教育，1936 年成立农学院，从而发展成为设有文、法、理、工、农五个学院、15 个系与 2 个研究所的综合性大学；1937 年，国立武汉大学与国立北京大学、国立清华大学、国立中央大学和国立浙江大学统一进行招生考试。

In 1938, as Japanese forces attacked central China, the university was forced to move west to Leshan in Sichuan and continued teaching there as the Jiading branch of National Wuhan University, based at the Leshan Confucian temple, while the college of agriculture was merged into National Central University.1938 年，因日军进攻华中地区，国立武汉大学被迫西迁四川乐山继续办学，官方名称为国立武汉大学嘉定分部，以乐山文庙为本部；农学院则并入国立中央大学。

The writer and educator Ye Shengtao, who taught at the university during the Leshan years, judged its conditions far more comfortable than those of the universities in Chongqing, and Joseph Needham, after visiting in May 1943, wrote that its academic level was very high and could without question be compared with the National South-West Associated University, while Gao Shangyin discovered the Chinese freshwater jellyfish in 1939 and his research note in the journal Science was still being cited in 2009.西迁乐山期间在校任教的作家、教育家叶圣陶认为，武大的条件比重庆的中央大学与复旦大学宽舒得多；李约瑟在 1943 年 5 月访问该校后撰文称赞，其学术水平非常之高，甚至可与国立西南联合大相媲美。同样在乐山期间，高尚荫于 1939 年发现了中华桃花水母，其发表于《科学》上的研究简报直到 2009 年仍被引用。

In October 1946 the university moved back to Luojia Hill and restored its college of agriculture, and in 1947 it established a college of medicine with an affiliated hospital, reaching six colleges, 21 departments and eight research institutes.1946 年 10 月，学校迁回武昌珞珈山，并恢复农学院；1947 年又设立医学院及其附属医院，形成了文、法、理、工、农、医六大学院、21 个系与 8 个研究所的格局。

In 1948 the University of Oxford wrote to the Ministry of Education of the National Government confirming that graduates of National Peking University, National Tsinghua University, National Wuhan University, National Central University, National Zhejiang University, the private Nankai University and Peking Union Medical College who averaged above eighty marks in the arts and sciences would enjoy the status of an Oxford senior student.1948 年，英国牛津大学致函国民政府教育部，确认国立北京大学、国立清华大学、国立武汉大学、国立中央大学、国立浙江大学、私立南开大学以及协和医学院的文理科学士毕业生成绩平均在八十分以上者，享有“牛津之高级生地位”。

In 1949 National Wuhan University was renamed Wuhan University and continued to operate, and during the large-scale readjustment of Chinese universities in the early 1950s its engineering, agricultural and medical faculties were separated or merged into other institutions, leaving it as a comprehensive university of arts and sciences.1949 年，国立武汉大学更名为武汉大学并继续办学；1950 年代初中国大陆高校进行大规模院系调整，武大的工科、农科与医科相继独立或并入其他高校，学校由此成为文理科综合大学。

In 1960 Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power became national key universities, and in 1978 Wuhan University, the Wuhan Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power and the Wuhan College of Surveying and Mapping were all confirmed as national key universities.1960 年，武汉大学与武汉水利电力学院成为全国重点大学；1978 年，武汉大学、武汉水利电力学院和武汉测绘学院均被确定为全国重点大学。

In May 1980 the university signed a memorandum of talks with a French government delegation in Wuhan and became the only designated institution for cooperation with French counterparts at that time, opening a partnership with French institutions that has since covered the humanities, the sciences, engineering and medicine.1980 年 5 月，武汉大学与法国政府代表团在武汉签署《会谈纪要》，成为当时与法国同行合作的唯一指定院校，由此开启了与法国机构在人文社会科学、理学、工学与医学等领域的多层次长期合作。

In 1995 Wuhan University, the Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering and the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping became among the first group of universities in the 211 Project.1995 年，武汉大学及武汉水利电力大学、武汉测绘科技大学都成为首批“211 工程”重点建设大学。

On 2 August 2000 Wuhan University merged with the Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University, becoming once again a comprehensive university with a full range of disciplines, and on 13 February 2001 it formally entered the list of 985 Project universities.2000 年 8 月 2 日，武汉大学与武汉水利电力大学、武汉测绘科技大学、湖北医科大学三所高校合并，重新成为学科门类齐全的综合性大学；2001 年 2 月 13 日，学校正式进入“985 工程”重点建设院校名单。

On 10 September 2016 the university demolished the first teaching building of the engineering division, nicknamed the Transformer, which had been put up in 2000 for about 100 million yuan, and rebuilt on the same site a six-storey building that still holds 4,000 people and was brought into use in September 2020.2016 年 9 月 10 日，武汉大学爆破拆除了外号“变形金刚”的工学部第一教学楼，该楼由合校前的武汉水利电力大学于 2000 年修建，造价约一亿元人民币；随后在同一位置按相当面积重建了符合环境规划的新楼，新楼降为六层但仍可容纳 4000 人，并于 2020 年 9 月投入使用。

In 2023 the university celebrated its 130th anniversary, and on the day of the celebration on 29 November Lei Jun, a 1987 graduate of the department of computer science and founder and chief executive of Xiaomi, donated 1.3 billion yuan to the university, a record single personal donation to a Chinese university.2023 年，武汉大学举行 130 周年校庆；11 月 29 日校庆当天，计算机系 1987 级校友、小米集团创始人兼董事长雷军向学校捐赠 13 亿元人民币，创下中国高校单笔个人捐赠纪录。

Academics

Wuhan University is a vice-ministerial comprehensive research university administered and funded by the Ministry of Education of China, and it is part of Project 985, Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.武汉大学是一所副部级综合性研究型大学，由中华人民共和国教育部主管并拨款，属于“985 工程”“211 工程”与“双一流”建设高校。

The university is organised into six divisions, namely the humanities, the social sciences, the sciences, engineering, information sciences and medicine, the last of which stands across East Lake from the main campus.学校设有人文科学、社会科学、理学、工学、信息科学、医学六大学部，其中医学部隔东湖与校本部相望。

Its disciplines cover thirteen categories, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, arts and interdisciplinary studies.其学科涵盖哲学、经济学、法学、教育学、文学、历史学、理学、工学、农学、医学、管理学、艺术学以及交叉学科共十三个门类。

It offers 119 undergraduate programmes, has 296 disciplines authorised to award master's degrees, 43 first-level and 248 second-level disciplines authorised to award doctorates, and 32 postdoctoral research stations.学校现有 119 个本科专业，296 个学科专业获得硕士学位授予权，43 个一级学科和 248 个二级学科获得博士学位授予权，并设有 32 个博士后科研流动站。

The university has 52 national key disciplines, including five first-level national key disciplines covering 29 second-level disciplines, a further 17 second-level national key disciplines and six disciplines on the national key cultivation list.学校拥有 52 个国家重点学科及国家重点培育学科，其中包括 5 个一级国家重点学科（覆盖 29 个二级学科）、17 个二级国家重点学科以及 6 个国家重点培育学科。

The five first-level national key disciplines are theoretical economics, biology, hydraulic engineering, surveying and mapping science and technology and the management of library, information and archives.五个一级国家重点学科分别是理论经济学、生物学、水利工程、测绘科学与技术以及图书情报与档案管理。

The university operates seven national key laboratories, covering surveying, mapping and remote sensing information engineering, water resources and hydropower engineering science, virology in cooperation with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, hybrid rice jointly with the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre, power grid environmental protection, oral and maxillofacial reconstruction and regeneration, and complex life metabolism and regulation.学校拥有 7 个国家重点实验室，包括测绘遥感信息工程、水资源与水电工程科学、与中国科学院武汉病毒研究所合办的病毒学、与湖南杂交水稻研究中心共建的杂交水稻、电网环境保护、口颌系统重建与再生以及复杂生命体代谢与调控。

It also hosts seven national key research institutes for the humanities and social sciences, two national engineering technology research centres for multimedia software and satellite positioning systems, and two national field scientific observation stations.学校还设有 7 个国家人文社会科学重点研究基地，以及多媒体软件与卫星定位系统两个国家工程技术研究中心、两个国家野外科学观测研究站。

There are twelve key laboratories and five engineering research centres of the Ministry of Education, as well as eighteen key laboratories of Hubei province and eleven provincial engineering research centres.学校有 12 个教育部重点实验室与 5 个教育部工程技术研究中心，另有 18 个湖北省重点实验室和 11 个湖北省工程研究中心。

The university has one national high-end think tank, the Institute of International Law, and the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies was added to the cultivation list of new national high-end think tanks in 2017.学校拥有一个国际法研究所作为国家高端智库，其中国边界与海洋研究院已于 2017 年被纳入新增国家高端智库培育名单。

Three collaborative innovation centres have been approved under the higher education innovation capacity programme, two of them led by Wuhan University, covering geospatial information science and national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests.学校在高等学校创新能力提升计划中获批三个协同创新中心，其中两个由武汉大学牵头，分别涉及地球空间信息科学以及国家领土主权与海洋权益。

The university has more than 3,700 full-time teachers, including more than 2,700 professors and associate professors, nine academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, seven of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and three of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, as well as nine senior professors in the humanities and social sciences, 62 specially appointed professors and 24 chair professors under the Changjiang Scholars Programme, and 56 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.学校现有专任教师 3700 余人，其中正副教授 2700 余人，包括中国科学院院士 9 位、中国工程院院士 7 位、欧亚科学院院士 3 位，以及人文社科资深教授 9 位；另有“长江学者奖励计划”特聘教授 62 位、讲座教授 24 位，以及 56 位国家杰出青年科学基金获得者。

The university has thirteen national teaching teams, 71 national excellent courses, 61 national excellent resource-sharing courses and fourteen national open video courses.学校拥有 13 个国家级教学团队、71 门国家级精品课程、61 门国家级精品资源共享课以及 14 门国家级视频公开课。

It has 29 national characteristic specialities, ten national experimental teaching demonstration centres, ten national basic science talent training bases and one national base for cultural quality education for students.学校有 29 个国家级特色专业建设点、10 个国家实验教学示范中心、10 个国家基础科学人才培养基地和 1 个国家大学生文化素质教育基地。

Wuhan University was selected for the Everest Plan for training top students in basic disciplines, and it has set up the Hongyi School to select and specially train top students across seven specialities spanning the arts and the sciences.学校入选“基础学科拔尖学生培养试验计划”（即“珠峰计划”），并设立弘毅学堂，选拔横跨文理共七个专业的顶尖生源进行特别培养。

Fifteen of its specialities have been selected for the excellence talent education and training plan, covering medicine, law and engineering.学校有 15 个专业入选卓越人才教育培养计划，涵盖卓越医生、卓越律师与卓越工程师三大类。

In 2024 the student body consisted of 29,488 full-time undergraduates, 24,126 full-time master's degree candidates, more than 10,000 doctoral candidates and 3,007 international students, and the university had 3,940 faculty staff.2024 年，学校共有全日制本科生 29488 人、全日制硕士研究生 24126 人、博士研究生一万余人以及 3007 名国际学生，教职员为 3940 人。

The university library was formally founded in 1917 and named the National Wuhan University Library in 1928, and a new main library with a floor area of 35,548 square metres opened in October 2011, bringing total library space to 85,355 square metres.武汉大学图书馆于 1917 年正式建馆，1928 年定名为国立武汉大学图书馆；2011 年 10 月，总建筑面积 35548 平方米的新馆落成启用，全校馆舍总面积达到 85355 平方米。

Its collections hold more than 13.36 million items, including nearly 6.767 million printed volumes, more than 6.59 million Chinese and foreign electronic books and journals, and over 200,000 volumes of traditional thread-bound books, and it runs five branch libraries.全校文献资源总量达 1336 万余册，其中印刷型文献近 676.7 万册、中外文电子书刊 659 万余册、线装古籍 20 万余册，并设有五个分馆。

The university has three affiliated hospitals, namely Renmin Hospital, Zhongnan Hospital and the Stomatological Hospital, and further facilities including the Wanlin Art Museum, a herbarium, an archive and the China Centre for Type Culture Collection.学校拥有人民医院、中南医院与口腔医院三所附属医院，此外还设有万林艺术博物馆、标本馆、档案馆与中国典型培养物保藏中心。

Campus

The campus lies at the foot of Luojia Hill on the south shore of East Lake, and it covers 5,178 mu, or about 3.45 square kilometres, with 2.58 million square metres of buildings.校园坐落在东湖南岸的珞珈山麓，占地面积 5178 亩（约 3.45 平方千米），建筑面积 258 万平方米。

The campus is green throughout the year and, according to an incomplete count, contains 120 families, 558 genera and more than 800 species of seed plants, of which seventeen species in eleven families are rare or endangered.校内四季常青、季季有花，据不完全统计，现有种子植物 120 科、558 属、800 多种，其中 11 科 17 种为珍稀濒危植物。

The teaching and residential areas are divided into eight zones named after the plants and the terrain, five of them long established as the Cherry Garden, the Plum Garden, the Maple Garden, the Osmanthus Garden and the Lakeside, with the remaining three named the Oak, Bamboo and Apricot gardens.教学及学生生活区依栽种植物与地形地貌分散为八大片，其中樱园、梅园、枫园、桂园、湖滨五片早已有特定名称，其余三片后来分别定名为栎园、竹园与杏园。

The early buildings of Wuhan University, designed largely by F. H. Kales, were listed by the State Council on 25 June 2001 in the fifth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level, the first historic building complex on a Chinese university campus to be so listed.武汉大学早期建筑主要由开尔斯设计，于 2001 年 6 月 25 日被国务院正式列为第五批全国重点文物保护单位，是中国大学校园内首批获此列入的历史建筑群。

Luojia Hill itself is 118.5 metres above sea level and forms the highest peak on the south shore of East Lake, being made up of more than a dozen connected small hills.珞珈山海拔 118.5 米，由十几个相连的小山组成，是东湖南岸临湖的最高峰。

The old library, which opened in 1935 on Lion Hill beside East Lake, and the surrounding buildings form part of the fifth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level, and the university's emblem is based on an outline of that building.1935 年启用的老图书馆位于东湖之滨的狮子山顶，它与周围的建筑群同属第五批全国重点文物保护单位；武汉大学现用校徽即以老图书馆的线条造型为元素之一。

The library system now includes a new main library opened in October 2011 and five branch libraries for the humanities, sciences, engineering, information science and medicine, all designated research-level collection units of Hubei province.图书馆现设文科、理科、工学、信息科学与医学五个分馆，均为湖北省研究级文献收藏单位，另有 2011 年 10 月启用的总馆新馆。

In 1939, after Japanese troops made the Luojia Hill campus their central China headquarters, they brought cherry saplings from Japan and planted them along what is now the campus's Cherry Blossom Avenue.1939 年，日军将珞珈山校园辟为其中原司令部后，从日本引来樱花树苗，种植在如今校园樱花大道两侧。

In 1972, to mark the normalisation of China-Japan relations, the Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka presented 1,000 Oshima cherry trees to Premier Zhou Enlai, who passed fifty of them on to Wuhan University.1972 年中日邦交正常化后，时任日本首相田中角荣向中国总理周恩来赠送大山樱 1000 株，周恩来将其中的 50 株转赠武汉大学。

Further saplings followed, 100 weeping cherries from a Japanese friendship association in 1982 and 200 more in 1992, and the university now has more than 1,000 cherry trees of four main varieties that bloom from mid-March to early April.此后又有赠送：1982 年日本友协赠送垂枝樱苗 100 株，1992 年再赠樱苗 200 株；如今武大樱花有 1000 多株，主要为四个品种，花期一般在 3 月中旬至 4 月上旬。

The campus gate paifang has been rebuilt several times: the first, of fine wood, was destroyed by a tornado the year after it was put up, and the second, of about 1937, carries the characters for National Wuhan University attributed to the mathematics professor Xiao Junjiang and, on the reverse, the words arts, law, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine in seal script by the Chinese professor Liu Ze.校门牌坊历经数次重建：第一座为精美的木质牌坊，建成次年即毁于龙卷风；第二座约建于 1937 年，正面“国立武汉大学”六字较可信的说法出自时任数学系教授萧君绛之手，背面的“文法理工农医”篆字则为中文系教授刘赜所书。

The third gate was built in 1993 for the university's centenary with funds raised by alumni associations and was dismantled on 9 October 2012 for the construction of the Bayi Road underpass, while the present fourth gate was completed on 8 September 2013, enlarged from the old design in the ratio 1 to 1.12 to mark 120 years.第三座牌坊于 1993 年百年校庆前夕由校友会集资仿建，2012 年 10 月 9 日为八一路地下通道施工而被拆除；现在的第四代校门牌坊于 2013 年 9 月 8 日落成，并按老版与新版的 1 比 1.12 比例放大，寓意建校 120 周年。

Among the early buildings still standing are the Songqing Gymnasium, the old law school, the former school of science, the former men's dormitory, the student club and the Yingyuan dining hall.现存早期建筑包括宋卿体育馆、老法学院、老理学院、老男生宿舍、学生俱乐部以及樱园食堂。

Within three kilometres of the university are the Hubei provincial government, the Hubei Provincial Museum, the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University of Technology and Central China Normal University.学校方圆三公里内有湖北省政府、湖北省博物馆、中国科学院武汉分院、武汉理工大学与华中师范大学等重要机构。

The university's medical division stands on the north bank of Fruit Lake across East Lake from the main campus and contains Zhongnan Hospital, while Renmin Hospital lies further away on Ziyang Road.医学部位于东湖对岸水果湖北岸，含中南医院，与校本部隔湖相望；人民医院则较远，位于武昌紫阳路。

Reputation

Wuhan University places joint 165th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and ninth among universities in China.武汉大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 165，在中国高校中位列第九。

In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings it was placed joint 122nd in the world and eighth in China.在泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列全球并列第 122、中国第八。

In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2024 it was placed 89th in the world and tenth in mainland China, the first time it had entered the world top hundred in all four major global rankings.在 2024 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列全球第 89、中国大陆第十，这是它首次在四大主要国际排名体系中全部进入世界前 100。

U.S. News and World Report ranked it 85th in the world, 18th in Asia and tenth in China.《美国新闻与世界报道》将其列为全球第 85、亚洲第 18、中国第十。

The Nature Index of 2026 ranked Wuhan University the fifteenth university in the Asia-Pacific region and 18th in the world.2026 年《自然指数》将武汉大学列为亚太地区高校第 15 位、全球第 18 位。

The 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking placed Wuhan University 16th in the world by total publications and 31st by the number of its publications belonging to the top one per cent in their fields for 2020 to 2023.2025 年莱顿 CWTS 排名按论文总数将武汉大学列为全球第 16，按 2020 至 2023 年进入本领域前 1% 的论文数量则列为全球第 31。

In the main domestic rankings it is placed 8th by the Best Chinese Universities Ranking, 6th by Wushulian, 10th by the Chinese Alumni Association network, 9th by QS China and 8th by Times Higher Education China.在中国主要国内排名中，该校在软科中国大学排名中列第 8、武书连排名列第 5、中国校友会网排名列第 10、QS 中国排名列第 9、泰晤士高等教育中国排名列第 8。

In the discipline evaluation of the Chinese Ministry of Education it ranked first in the country in Marxist theory, surveying and mapping science and technology, geophysics, and the management of library, information and archives.在中国教育部学科评估中，该校的马克思主义理论、测绘科学与技术、地球物理学以及图书情报与档案管理均位列全国第一。

As of 2017, twenty-nine billionaires had graduated from Wuhan University, placing the university ninth nationally on that measure.截至 2017 年，共有 29 位亿万富翁毕业于武汉大学，该校在这一指标上位列全国第九。

Student life

The university's motto, adopted in its present form in 1993, consists of the four phrases self-improvement, perseverance, truth-seeking and innovation, drawn respectively from the Book of Changes, the Analects and the Book of Han.武汉大学现用校训沿用 1993 年的版本，由“自强”“弘毅”“求是”“拓新”四词组成，分别语出《周易》《论语》与《汉书》。

Its school colours are Luojia blue and Luojia green, its mascot is a fox, and its newspaper is the Wuhan University News.学校的代表色为珞珈蓝与珞珈绿，吉祥物是狐狸，校刊为《武汉大学报》。

The present school song was chosen in a competition in 1998 and opens with the line that the yellow swan rises once and knows the winding of rivers and mountains, while the earlier song of the National Wuchang Higher Normal School used the tune of Annie Lisle.现在使用的校歌是 1998 年征集的版本，开篇为“黄鹄一举兮，知山川之纡曲”；而国立武昌高等师范学校的校歌则使用了著名的安妮·莱尔曲调。

The anniversary is marked on 29 November, the day the Ziqiang Institute was founded, and the centenary celebrations of 1993 made Wuhan University the first Chinese university to hold such an event.校庆日为 11 月 29 日，即自强学堂建立之日；1993 年的百年校庆使武汉大学成为中国第一所举办百年校庆的大学。

The university recruits undergraduates and postgraduates in all thirty-one provincial-level regions of mainland China, and it has 1,022 students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese families.学校在中国大陆 31 个省、直辖市、自治区招收本科生和研究生，其华侨与港澳台学生有 1022 人。

It hosts 1,422 international students from more than seventy countries, the largest number of any university in central China.学校现有来自世界上 70 多个国家的 1422 名留学生，人数在华中地区高校中稳居首位。

In 2016 the university had 7,219 ordinary bachelor's graduates, and by 10 December the overall employment rate for undergraduates was 96.51 per cent, with 2,719 going on to postgraduate study in China and 1,403 going abroad, together 57.1 per cent of the cohort.2016 年，武汉大学共有普通本科毕业生 7219 人；截至 12 月 10 日，全校本科生就业总落实率为 96.51%，其中 2719 人国内升学、1403 人出国深造，合计占毕业生人数的 57.1%。

Wuhan University is one of only three comprehensive universities in mainland China with the right to award doctorates in French language and literature, and its students form the largest group of Chinese students studying in France.武汉大学是中国大陆仅有的三所拥有法语语言文学博士学位授予权的综合性高校之一，其学生留学法国的总人数居中国高校之冠。

Notable people

Lei Jun, founder, chairman and chief executive of the technology company Xiaomi, graduated from the department of computer science in 1987 and gave the university 1.3 billion yuan in 2023.科技企业小米集团创始人、董事长兼首席执行官雷军是计算机系 1987 级校友，他于 2023 年向学校捐赠 13 亿元人民币。

Wang Shijie, the jurist who became the first formally appointed president of National Wuhan University in 1929, shaped the university's plan to grow into a six-college institution with ten thousand students.法学家王世杰于 1929 年成为国立武汉大学首位正式校长，他规划了把学校办成拥有六大学院的万人大学的蓝图。

Li Siguang, the geologist who chaired the committee for the buildings and equipment of the new campus, chose the Luojia Hill site and engaged the architect F. H. Kales to design it.地质学家李四光担任新校舍建筑设备委员会委员长，选定了珞珈山校址，并聘请建筑师开尔斯主持设计。

Ye Shengtao, the writer and educator, taught at the university during its eight years in Leshan in Sichuan and left a widely quoted account of conditions there.作家、教育家叶圣陶在西迁四川乐山的八年期间于该校任教，并留下了关于当时办学条件、被广泛引用的记述。

Gao Shangyin, a biologist at the university, discovered the Chinese freshwater jellyfish in Leshan in 1939 and published a research note on it in the journal Science.该校生物学家高尚荫于 1939 年在乐山发现了中华桃花水母，并在《科学》杂志上发表了相关研究简报。

Wen Yiduo, the poet and scholar, designed an emblem for the university during the period of National Wuhan University which is still used informally by some groups on campus.诗人、学者闻一多在国立武汉大学时期为学校设计了一款校徽，其图案及变体至今仍被校内一些团体非正式使用。

Liu Daoyu, who became president in July 1981, carried out a series of reforms in teaching and management and greatly expanded cooperation with leading universities abroad, opening the first period of rapid development after 1949.1981 年 7 月出任校长的刘道玉在校内推行一系列教学与管理体制改革，并大力开展与世界著名大学的合作交流，开启了学校 1949 年后的第一个快速发展期。