Wuhan University of Technology

Wuhan University of Technology, written in Chinese as 武汉理工大学 and abbreviated 武理工, rendered in English as WUT or WHUT, is a public research university in Wuhan, Hubei, China, directly under the Ministry of Education, whose earliest root is the Hubei Institute of Technology of 1898 and whose present form dates from 27 May 2000 when three universities merged.武汉理工大学简称武理工，英文写作 WUT 或 WHUT，是中国湖北省武汉市的一所公立研究型大学，直属于教育部，最早源头为 1898 年的湖北工艺学堂，现体制则始于 2000 年 5 月 27 日三校合并。

The university belongs to the first cohort of national Project 211 construction universities and to the national Double First-Class initiative, is co-built by the Ministry of Education with the Ministry of Transport and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, and over some seventy years it has trained close to 500,000 senior specialists as the largest talent base for China's building-materials and construction, transportation and automotive industries among ministry-affiliated universities.该校是国家「211 工程」首批重点建设和「双一流」建设高校，由教育部与交通运输部、国家国防科技工业局共建，70 年来共培养近 50 万名高级专门人才，是教育部直属高校中为建材建工、交通、汽车三大行业培养人才规模最大的基地。

Its Mafangshan, Yujiatou and South Lake campuses together cover more than 4,000 mu with nearly 1.56 million square metres of school buildings, materials, engineering and chemistry all stand in the world's top 5 per mille of Essential Science Indicators fields, and teaching is organised across some 23 academic schools.马房山、余家头和南湖校区合计占地 4,000 余亩，校舍总建筑面积近 156 万平方米，材料、工程和化学 3 个学科进入 ESI 世界前 5‰，教学单位约 23 个学院。

History

• The earliest root runs to 1898, when Zhang Zhidong, then Viceroy of Huguang, asked the Qing government for leave to open the Hubei Institution of Technology, the school from which the materials lineage of today's Wuhan University of Technology descends.最早源头可追溯至 1898 年，时任湖广总督张之洞奏请清廷创办湖北工艺学堂，武汉理工大学材料一脉即由其传下。

• According to the English-language account the materials side traces to three colleges, the Central-China Construction Engineering College of 1952, the Shenyang Building Materials Industry College founded in 1958 and the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering in Construction, upgraded that same 1958 from the senior-cadre school of the Construction Ministry.英文条目称材料一侧源自三院：1952 年的中南建筑工程学院、1958 年创建的沈阳建筑材料工业学院，以及 1958 年由建工部高级干部学校升格的北京建筑工业学院。

• On the Wuhan side the 1958 May upgrade of the Wuhan Construction Engineering School into a junior college was followed within months by promotion to the Wuhan Construction Industry Institute, renamed the Wuhan Urban Construction Institute in 1960, enlarged by the drainage programme of the Wuhan Water Supply and Drainage School in 1961 and downgraded back to a secondary school in 1964.武汉一侧，1958 年 5 月武汉建筑工程学校先升为专科学校，年底再升格为武汉建筑工业学院，1960 年改名武汉城市建设学院，1961 年并入武汉给排水专科学校的排水专业，1964 年又改建为武汉建筑工程学校。

• At the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering in Construction the undergraduate section of the Shenyang Building Materials Industry College merged in during 1958, the Beijing Silicate Industry College followed in 1960 together with junior-colour classes in construction machinery, technology and hydrogeological surveying, and in October 1969 the institute was relocated south to Changde in Hunan.北京建筑工业学院方面，1958 年沈阳建筑材料工业学院本科部分并入，1960 年北京硅酸盐工业学院并入，建筑机械、工艺和地质勘察水文地质大专班同期调入，1969 年 10 月全院南迁湖南常德。

• In October 1971 the Beijing institute and the Wuhan Construction Engineering School merged to form the Hubei Institute of Building Construction.1971 年 10 月，北京建筑工业学院与武汉建筑工程学校合并组建湖北建筑工业学院。

• In May 1978 the Hubei Institute of Building Construction was listed as a newly added national key university, returned to the leadership of the State Building Materials Industry Bureau and renamed the Wuhan Institute of Building Materials, and in 1980 the State Council approved a Beijing graduate department on the old Beijing institute's site.1978 年 5 月，湖北建筑工业学院被列为新增全国重点大学，重新划归国家建筑材料工业局领导，并更名武汉建筑材料工业学院，1980 年经国务院批准在原北京建筑工业学院旧址设立北京研究生部。

• In August 1985 the Wuhan Institute of Building Materials took the name Wuhan University of Technology, and in September 1997 it passed the review for Project 211 construction to join the first cohort of key universities, moving from the building-materials bureau to direct Ministry of Education administration in 1998.1985 年 8 月武汉建筑材料工业学院更名为武汉工业大学，1997 年 9 月通过「211 工程」建设项目立项审核，成为首批重点建设大学，1998 年由建材总局所属划归教育部直属。

• On the automotive side the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party resolved on 25 June 1958 to found a technical college for the needs of industry, and on 27 October 1958 the Wuhan Institute of Technology opened on the Mafangshan grounds of the Wuhan Teachers College division, formerly the Hubei Secondary Normal School.汽车一侧，中共武汉市委 1958 年 6 月 25 日决定为工业建设急需创办工学院，同年 10 月 27 日武汉工学院在武昌马房山的武汉师范学院分部旧址创建，该地原为湖北师范专科学校。

• The automobile-manufacturing specialty of the Huazhong Institute of Technology moved into the Wuhan Institute of Technology in 1960, and in 1961 it absorbed the undergraduate section of the Hubei Institute of Technology along with the Hubei Chemical Engineering College, both founded in 1958.1960 年华中工学院汽车制造专业并入武汉工学院，1961 年又并入 1958 年创建的湖北工学院本科部分与湖北化工学院。

• In 1970 the institute merged with the Hubei College of Agricultural Machinery, itself upgraded in October 1958 from the Hubei Agricultural School, to form the Hubei College of Agricultural Machinery, which passed from Hubei provincial to First Ministry of Machine Building leadership in 1978 before the name Wuhan Institute of Technology was restored in 1979.1970 年该院与湖北农业机械专科学校合并组建湖北农业机械学院，农机专科前身是 1958 年 10 月升格的湖北省农业学校，1978 年湖北农机学院由省属改隶第一机械工业部，1979 年恢复武汉工学院名称。

• Transfer to the Ministry of Machine Building followed in 1982 and to the China Automotive Industry Corporation in September 1983, while a 1985 renaming to Wuhan University of Industrial Technology lasted only from October to December of that year before the old name returned.1982 年转由机械工业部领导，1983 年 9 月划归中国汽车工业总公司，1985 年 10 月更名武汉工业技术大学，同年 12 月即恢复武汉工学院校名。

• In 1995 the Wuhan Institute of Technology became Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University, entering a co-construction arrangement with the Wuhan municipal government in May 1996 and passing the Project 211 key-discipline pre-examination in 1997.1995 年武汉工学院更名为武汉汽车工业大学，1996 年 5 月中国汽车工业总公司与武汉市政府共建该校，1997 年通过国家「211 工程」重点学科部门预审。

• The English-language account adds that in 1999 the Hubei No.1 Mechanical Industry School and the Hubei Energy-Saving Economy School were merged into Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University shortly before the three-way merger.英文条目补充，1999 年湖北省第一机械工业学校和湖北节能经济学校并入武汉汽车工业大学，随即迎来三校合并。

• On the transport side the National Wuchang Maritime Vocational School was created in January 1946 at Xiaxinhe in Wuchang, and in July 1949 the Central-South Institute of Transport was founded on its base at Baofeng Road in Hankou, the old maritime school becoming its shipping department.交通一侧，1946 年 1 月国立武昌海事职业学校在武昌下新河创建，1949 年 7 月中南交通学院在汉口宝丰路以其为基础成立，原海事职业学校改为该院航业系。

• In January 1951 the Central-South Institute of Transport came under the Ministry of Transport as the Wuhan Transportation College and moved back to the old maritime site, becoming in 1952 the Wuhan River Transport College as shipbuilding programmes from universities nationwide arrived, gaining the navigation department of the Dalian Sea Transportation College in 1954 and starting construction of the Yujiaitou campus in Wuchang in 1956.1951 年 1 月中南交通学院改属中央人民政府交通部，更名武汉交通学院并迁回海事学校旧址，1952 年全国多所高校船舶专业并入后更名武汉河运学院，1954 年大连海运学院航运专业并入，1956 年在武昌余家头兴建校舍。

• In January 1957 the college became the Wuhan University of Water Transport Engineering as water-transport programmes from across China were consolidated there, and in 1963 the shipbuilding programmes of several universities followed.1957 年 1 月武汉河运学院更名武汉水运工程学院，全国多所高校水运专业并入，1963 年全国多所高校造船专业再行并入。

• In 1979 the ministry's Wuhan River Transport School was upgraded to the Wuhan River Transport Technical College, and in November 1993 the two institutions merged to form Wuhan Transportation University, which signed a ministry-province co-building agreement in December 1996 and passed the Project 211 pre-examination for several disciplines in 1998.1979 年交通部武汉河运学校升格为武汉河运专科学校，1993 年 11 月两校合并组建武汉交通科技大学，1996 年 12 月交通部与湖北省签署共建协议，1998 年部分学科通过「211 工程」预审。

• On 27 May 2000, with the approval of the State Council, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan Transportation University and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University, then respectively under the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport and the China Automotive Industry Corporation, merged into a single university keeping the unchanged English name Wuhan University of Technology.2000 年 5 月 27 日，经国务院批准，分属教育部、交通部和中国汽车工业总公司的武汉工业大学、武汉交通科技大学、武汉汽车工业大学三校合并，中文校名改为武汉理工大学，英文名称不变。

• The unified university was selected into the Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Plan, the so-called 111 Plan, in 2008 and into the first cohort of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Education and Cultivation Plan in June 2010.合并后的学校在 2008 年入选高等学校学科创新引智计划即「111 计划」，2010 年 6 月又入选教育部第一批卓越工程师教育培养计划高校。

• In 2016 it became a university co-built by the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, and in September 2017 it entered the national list of world first-class discipline construction universities.2016 年该校成为国家国防科技工业局与教育部共建高校，2017 年 9 月进入世界一流学科建设高校行列。

• March 2018 saw selection into the Ministry of Education's first cohort of New Engineering research and practice projects, and in November 2018 the university became a first-batch national base for the transmission of outstanding traditional Chinese culture in regular higher-education institutions.2018 年 3 月入选教育部首批新工科研究与实践项目，2018 年 11 月又入选第一批全国普通高校中华优秀传统文化传承基地。

• Counting from the three-sector training drive of the 1950s onward, the Chinese-language entry records nearly 500,000 senior specialists graduated in seventy years, making the university the chief base for high-level talent and sci-tech innovation in China's three signature industries.中文条目记载，70 年来学校共培养近 50 万名高级专门人才，成为中国建材建工、交通、汽车三大行业高层次人才培养和科技创新的重要基地。

Academics

• The university has built a discipline system led by engineering in which science, engineering, economics, management, arts, literature and law interpenetrate and develop together.学校形成以工学为主，理、工、经、管、艺术、文、法等多学科相互渗透、协调发展的学科专业体系。

• Degree authorisation covers 19 first-level discipline doctoral programmes, 46 first-level discipline master's programmes and 17 postdoctoral mobile stations, plus 16 master's professional-degree categories across 40 professional fields.现有 19 个一级学科博士学位授权点、46 个一级学科硕士学位授权点和 17 个博士后科研流动站，另有 16 个硕士专业学位授权类别、40 个授权领域。

• Some 90 undergraduate majors are on offer, among them 15 national-characteristic majors, 28 pilot majors of the Excellent Engineer programme, 4 national comprehensive-reform pilot majors and 2 majors tied to strategic emerging industries.开设本科专业 90 个，其中国家特色专业 15 个、卓越工程师教育培养计划试点专业 28 个、国家综合改革试点专业 4 个、国家战略性新兴产业专业 2 个。

• Materials, engineering and chemistry have all entered the top 5 per mille of universities worldwide in Essential Science Indicators subject rankings.材料学科、工程学科和化学学科均已进入世界 ESI 学科排名前 5‰。

• The School of Materials Science and Engineering anchors the academic profile and operates the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, one of the two national key laboratories on campus.材料科学与工程学院是学校的学术支柱，运行材料复合新技术国家重点实验室，为校内两座国家重点实验室之一。

• The second, the State Key Lab of Silicate Building Materials, carries the building-materials inheritance of the old Wuhan Institute of Building Materials.另一座硅酸盐建筑材料国家重点实验室，则承袭原武汉建筑材料工业学院的建材学科衣钵。

• National platforms also include the National Engineering Laboratory for Optical Fiber Sensing Technology and the National Engineering Technology Research Center for Waterborne Transport Safety, part of some 40 national and provincial or ministerial research bases on campus.校内还有光纤传感技术国家工程实验室和国家水运安全工程技术研究中心等国家级平台，国家级和省部级科研基地共约 40 个。

• Three provincial or ministerial collaborative innovation centres focus on intelligent inland-river shipping under the Ministry of Transport and on automobile components and on safety prewarning and emergency-response technology under Hubei Province.学校建有内河智能航运交通运输部协同创新中心和汽车零部件技术、安全预警与应急联动技术两个湖北省协同创新中心。

• An English-language profile lists 23 academic schools, among them the School of Automotive Engineering, the School of Transportation, the School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Energy Power Engineering, the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture.英文条目列有 23 个教学学院，包括汽车工程学院、交通学院、能源与动力工程学院（造船、海洋与能源动力）、计算机科学与技术学院和土木工程与建筑学院等。

• The same profile counted 5,570 academic staff including 650 professors and six members of the two national academies, teaching more than 36,000 undergraduates, some 16,000 master's and doctoral students and 327 international students in an earlier period of expansion.同一英文资料在早年扩张阶段记录教职工 5,570 人，含教授 650 人和两院院士 6 人，在校本科生逾 3.6 万人、博士硕士生约 1.6 万人、留学生 327 人。

• Academic links reach outward on a wide footing, the Chinese entry describing sister-school and cooperative relations with more than 100 universities at home and abroad while an English profile tallied more than 60 partner institutions at its writing and some 200 famous foreign scholars engaged as concurrent or honorary professors.学校对外学术联系广泛，中文条目称与国内外 100 多所大学建立姊妹院校和合作关系，英文资料在其撰写时统计合作机构 60 余家，并聘有 200 余位知名外国学者任兼职或名誉教授。

• Since 2010 the university has won 15 national science and technology awards as the primary completing institution, a tally the Chinese entry places among the leaders of China's universities.2010 年以来，学校以第一完成单位获国家科技奖励 15 项，位居全国高校前列。

• An English-language profile from the early 2010s put government and industrial research funding at nearly 3 billion yuan over ten years, and in 2006 and 2007 the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs jointly approved a national base for discipline innovation and talent import in advanced materials technology and high-speed shipping technology.英文资料显示，2010 年代初的近十年间学校获政府与产业科研经费近 30 亿元，2006 与 2007 年国家外国专家局和教育部联合批准设立先进材料与高速航运技术学科创新引智基地。

• In 2008 the Ministry of Science and Technology approved an internationally joint research centre for advanced materials technology at the university, and in 2010 its thermoelectric materials research team entered the China-US Clean Energy Joint Research Centre.2008 年科技部批准学校在先进材料技术领域设立国际联合研究中心，2010 年其热电材料研究团队进入中美清洁能源联合研究中心。

• The university's science park in the Wuhan China Optical Valley covers 58.7 hectares and has incubated more than six high-tech enterprises in new materials, fibre-optic sensors, high-speed shipping, new energy and advanced manufacturing, reaching total revenue of 1.58 billion yuan in 2010.学校位于武汉中国光谷的大学科技园占地 58.7 公顷，已孵化高新技术企业 6 家以上，涵盖新材料、光纤传感、高速航运、新能源与先进制造，2010 年总收入达 15.8 亿元。

• Partnership with industry runs deep, with 167 large enterprises of the building-materials and construction, transport and automotive sectors holding regular joint board meetings and with more than 230 science-and-technology cooperation and achievement-transformation agencies co-built with local governments and firms.学校与建材建工、交通、汽车三大行业的 167 家大型企业定期召开行业董事会，并与地方政府和行业企业共建科技合作与成果转化机构 230 余个。

• Two Sino-foreign cooperative institutions place foreign degree pathways on campus, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Wuhan Institute of Technology opened with the British university in 2016 and the Aix-Marseille College opened in 2018 with Aix-Marseille University of France.学校设有两个中外合作办学机构，2016 年与英国威尔士三一圣大卫大学合办威尔士三一圣大卫大学武汉理工学院，2018 年与法国艾克斯-马赛大学合办艾克斯-马赛学院。

Campus

• The university runs two main campuses, the Mafangshan Campus at 122 Luoshi Road in Wuchang, formed from the old Wuhan University of Technology and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University grounds with a new South Lake site along Xiongpu Avenue, and the Yujiatou Campus at 1178 Heping Avenue in Wuchang, the former Wuhan Transportation University site, together covering more than 4,000 mu.学校现有两大校区，马房山校区位于武昌珞狮路 122 号，由原武汉工业大学与武汉汽车工业大学校园构成，另在雄楚大街有南湖新校区，余家头校区位于武昌和平大道 1178 号，即原武汉交通科技大学校园，两区合计占地 4,000 余亩。

• Total school building floor space is close to 1.56 million square metres, the English-language entry recording the grounds at some 267 hectares and dividing the Mafangshan site into East and West campus communities beside South Lake on the south bank of the Yangtze.校舍总建筑面积近 156 万平方米，英文条目记载校园占地约 267 公顷，马房山校区分东校园社区与西校园社区，紧邻南湖，地处长江南岸。

• Four modern libraries with complete facilities hold a stock of more than 3.9 million printed volumes, up from the three libraries and 2.72 million volumes recorded in the earlier English-language profile.学校拥有功能完备的现代化图书馆 4 座，馆藏图书 390 余万册，较早年英文资料所记 3 座图书馆 272 万册的规模明显扩充。

• The Yujiaitou campus on the Yangtze frontage was first put up from 1956 for the river-transport college and still houses the waterborne-transport disciplines descended from the Ministry of Transport schools.临江的余家头校区自 1956 年起为河运学院兴建，至今仍承载由交通部所属院校传承下来的水运学科。

• The Mafangshan hill site was chosen in 1958 for the Wuhan Institute of Technology after repeated surveys, taking over the division grounds of the Wuhan Teachers College that had earlier belonged to the Hubei Secondary Normal School.1958 年武汉工学院校址经反复勘察确定为武昌马房山，沿用武汉师范学院分部地基，该地原属湖北师范专科学校。

• For two decades from 1980 the materials lineage also kept a graduate presence in the capital through the Beijing graduate department opened on the former Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering in Construction site.自 1980 年起约二十年间，材料一脉还通过设在原北京建筑工业学院旧址的北京研究生部，保持着眼京的研究生培养据点。

• Wuhan, the largest city of central China and a famous river city known in Chinese as the crossing-point of nine provinces, frames the whole university, whose campuses stretch along the south bank of the Yangtze in Wuchang between Mafangshan hill, Yujiatou ferry point and South Lake.武汉是华中第一大城市和著名的江城，素有「九省通衢」之称，学校各校区即沿长江南岸散布于武昌的马房山、余家头与南湖之间。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Wuhan University of Technology is placed in the 951-1000 band and in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it falls in the 701-800 band.在 QS 2027 年世界大学排名中，武汉理工大学位列第 951-1000 位区间，泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名将其列于第 701-800 位区间。

• The US News & World Report Best Global Universities ranking 2026-2027 lists the university at 299 worldwide, while the 2026 Shanghai Ranking Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 201-300 band, the strongest of its four headline bandings.美国新闻与世界报道 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名给该校第 299 位，软科 2026 年世界大学学术排名将其置于第 201-300 位区间，为四大榜单口径中最高的位置。

• OpenAlex attributes 92,499 scholarly works and 6,233,106 citations to affiliated researchers in the 2026 harvest, the quantitative record of the university's research output.按 2026 年数据，OpenAlex 收录该校署名成果 92,499 项，被引 6,233,106 次，量化反映了学校的科研产出。

• On the subject dimension the three fields of materials, engineering and chemistry sit in the world's top 5 per mille in Essential Science Indicators, keeping materials, the discipline of the old building-materials institute, as the standard-bearer.学科维度上，材料、工程、化学 3 个学科进入 ESI 世界前 5‰，承自原建材学院的材料学科仍是学校的旗手。

• Earlier global standings recorded in the English entry put the university 58th in Asia, eighth in mainland China and in the 301-350 world band in the 2013 Times Higher Education world rankings, and 28th overall, ninth in China and first among Wuhan universities in the inaugural 2014 Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings.英文条目记载的早年全球位次为：2013 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名亚洲第 58 位、中国大陆第 8 位、世界 301-350 位，2014 年首届泰晤士高等教育金砖国家与新兴经济体大学排名总分第 28 位、中国第 9 位，居武汉高校之首。

• At home the university ranked 39th on the Wu Shulian 2008 Chinese universities list, third among Wuhan institutions behind Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University.在国内，2008 年武书连中国大学排名将学校列在第 39 位，居武汉高校第三位，仅次于华中科技大学和武汉大学。

• Quantified honour counts include 15 national science and technology awards taken as first completing institution since 2010, a result the Chinese entry ranks among the leaders of national universities.可计量的荣誉包括 2010 年以来以第一完成单位获得的国家科技奖励 15 项，中文条目称其位居全国高校前列。

• No Nobel or Turing laureate sits on the roster, the university's equivalent highest distinction being the national academy membership of six scholars, the Chinese Academy of Sciences seat of Zhang Qingjie in 2017 and five Chinese Academy of Engineering seats held by Yu Yongfu, elected in 1995, Jiang Desheng in 2007, Zhang Lianmeng in 2017, Yan Xinpeng in 2019 and Fu Zhengyi in November 2021.校内没有诺贝尔奖或图灵奖得主，其等效最高荣誉是 6 位院士：2017 年当选中国科学院院士的张清杰，以及先后当选中国工程院院士的余永富（1995 年）、姜德生（2007 年）、张联盟（2017 年）、严新平（2019 年）和傅正义（2021 年 11 月）。

• Institutional standing rests on programme status: Project 211 first cohort with the materials predecessor approved for construction in 1997, Double First-Class world first-class discipline university since September 2017, co-building by the Ministries of Education and Transport since the 2016 agreement with the national-defence agency, and first-cohort Excellent Engineer selection in June 2010.制度性地位包括：材料一脉 1997 年获准立项的「211 工程」首批重点建设、2017 年 9 月以来的世界一流学科建设高校身份、2016 年与国家国防科技工业局达成的教育部共建安排，以及 2010 年 6 月的首批卓越工程师计划入选。

Student life

• The student body recorded in the English entry exceeds 36,000 undergraduates with some 16,000 master's and doctoral students and 327 international students, taught across the 23 academic schools of the two riverside campuses and the newer South Lake site.英文条目记载在校生规模：本科生逾 3.6 万人，博士硕士生约 1.6 万人，留学生 327 人，分布在两大临江校区与较新的南湖校区的 23 个学院就读。

• Campus culture gained an official anchor in November 2018 when the Ministry of Education named the university among the first batch of national bases for the transmission of outstanding traditional Chinese culture in regular higher-education institutions, and the university's motto reads 厚德博学 追求卓越, that is, integrity, extensive learning and the pursuit of excellence.2018 年 11 月，教育部将学校列入第一批全国普通高校中华优秀传统文化传承基地，为校园文化提供了官方支点，校训为「厚德博学 追求卓越」。

• International study has deep roots in the lineages, the English entry dating the first admissions of foreign students to 1950, and the university has since awarded bachelor's, master's and further-study certificates to students from more than ten countries.英文条目将首批招收外国留学生上溯至 1950 年，此后学校已为 10 余个国家的留学生授予学士、硕士学位及进修证书。

• Exchange runs both ways, with teachers, professors and scholars sent abroad each year for study and international conferences while experts from the United States, Britain, Japan, France, Australia, Russia and the Netherlands are received for teaching and research, some foreign hosts appointing university scholars as guest or special professors.师生交流双向展开：每年派遣教师与学者出国研修或参加国际会议，同时接收来自美国、英国、日本、法国、澳大利亚、俄罗斯和荷兰等国专家来讲学或科研，部分校外机构还聘本校学者为客座教授或特别教授。

• A shadow fell on graduate mentoring on 26 March 2018 when third-year master's student Tao Chongyuan died after jumping from a building following years of pressure from his supervisor Wang Pan, and the university's 8 April 2018 bulletin acknowledged a pretend father-son relationship and conduct unrelated to teaching and research, suspending Wang's graduate recruitment while police ruled out homicide.2018 年 3 月 26 日，研究生陶崇园因长期受导师王攀压迫跳楼身亡，校方 4 月 8 日通报认定王攀存在与学生认义父子关系等与教学科研无关的行为，停止其研究生招生资格，公安机关则排除他杀。

• On 20 November 2020 Wang Pan appeared on a public list of faculty cleared to recruit master's students for 2020, provoking a storm of student and public protest, and on 27 November 2020 the university reversed the decision and denied his recruitment qualification.2020 年 11 月 20 日，王攀出现在当年通过硕导招生资格审核的教师公示名单中，引发学生与舆论强烈抵制，11 月 27 日校方通报决定其硕士招生资格不予通过。

• An earlier campus tragedy, reported by the university for 8 April 2019, saw a first-year male student die after falling from a teaching building, police preliminarily excluding a criminal case while the university said its inquiry found no abusive conduct by the surname-Jiang counsellor named in a widely circulated note.校方通报的另一起悲剧发生在 2019 年 4 月 8 日清晨，一名一年级男生在教学楼坠亡，警方初步排除刑事案件，校方称调查未发现遗书中点名的江姓辅导员存在辱骂学生等过激行为。

Notable people

• Zhang Zhidong, the Huguang viceroy who secured Qing approval for the Hubei Institution of Technology in 1898, is the founding figure of the university's oldest lineage.张之洞以湖广总督身份于 1898 年奏准创办湖北工艺学堂，是学校最早一脉的创办人。

• Zhou Zude led the newly merged university as its first president from May 2000 to June 2010, Yang Zongkai held the office from December 2021 to July 2025, and Wang Fazhou has served as president since July 2025.周祖德以首任校长身份执掌新组建的武汉理工大学（2000 年 5 月至 2010 年 6 月），杨宗凯于 2021 年 12 月至 2025 年 7 月任校长，王发洲自 2025 年 7 月起任职至今。

• Zhang Qingjie, a materials scientist elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, served as president from June 2010 to December 2021.张清杰为材料科学家，2017 年当选中国科学院院士，2010 年 6 月至 2021 年 12 月出任校长。

• Jiang Desheng, elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2007, led the National Engineering Laboratory for Optical Fiber Sensing Technology on campus, the country's only such base in fibre-optic sensing.姜德生 2007 年当选中国工程院院士，主持校内光纤传感技术国家工程实验室，是国内该领域唯一的国家级工程实验室。

• Zhang Lianmeng, an expert in functional gradient composite materials who served as dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering and as university vice-president, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.张联盟是功能梯度复合材料专家，曾任材料科学与工程学院院长和武汉理工大学副校长，2017 年当选中国工程院院士。

• Yan Xinpeng, a waterborne-transport engineer and former vice-president, took Chinese Academy of Engineering membership in 2019, joining combustion-synthesis pioneer Fu Zhengyi, elected in November 2021, and mineral-processing veteran Yu Yongfu, elected in 1995, on the roster of six academicians.水路交通工程专家、原副校长严新平 2019 年当选中国工程院院士，与 2021 年 11 月当选的燃烧合成先驱傅正义、1995 年当选的选矿专家余永富同列学校院士名单。

• Ou Jinping earned a master's degree in structural engineering at Wuhan University of Technology in 1983, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2003 for structural monitoring and disaster-mitigation work and later became president of Dalian University of Technology.欧进萍 1983 年在武汉工业大学获结构工程硕士学位，2003 年因结构监测与防灾减灾工程研究当选中国工程院院士，后出任大连理工大学校长。

• Among material scientists formed by the school are Nan Ce Wen, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician who became dean of the Institute for Material Research and Technology at Tsinghua University, and Jin Donghan, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician who directs the 711 Research Institute of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.材料学者南策文当选中国科学院院士后任清华大学材料研究院院长，金东寒当选中国工程院院士并执掌中国船舶重工集团公司 711 研究所。

• Alumni in engineering and industry include Cheng Yibing, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering who served as deputy dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, and Song Zhiping, chairman of China National Building Material Company Limited, a standard-bearer of the university's building-materials diaspora in state enterprise.工程与产业界校友包括澳大利亚技术科学与工程学院院士、莫纳什大学工学院前副院长程一兵，以及中国建材股份有限公司董事长宋志平，后者是学校建材校友在央企中的代表人物。