A well-known private university, formerly known as the Day Department of Wuhan University, which was established in 1980, was approved by the Ministry of Education and the Hubei Provincial People's Government to be transformed into an independent full-time undergraduate university
The school is located in Wuhan, known as the "thoroughfare of nine provinces", on the shore of Tangxun Lake, the largest urban lake in the country, adjacent to the national optoelectronic industry base - "China Optics Valley" in the east, and adjacent to the bustling core business district of Wuhan, with superior location and convenient transportation.
The infrastructure is well-developed
The school is one of the most beautiful university campuses in the country, with an elegant environment and picturesque seasons. Covering an area of more than 1,500 acres and a total construction area of more than 50 million square meters, it has a fully functional teaching area, administrative area, sports area, student living area, teacher dormitory area, ecological greening area, apartment-style student dormitory, teaching buildings that can accommodate 20,000 people at a time, a library that can accommodate 4,000 people to read and collect 1.5 million books, a gymnasium that can accommodate 5,000 people, and a track and field stadium with an area of 43,000 square meters. Covering an area of 51,000 square meters, it is a fully equipped science and technology building and a multidisciplinary laboratory building. The two student canteens were rated as "Hubei Provincial School Food Safety and Assured Canteens" by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education and the Hubei Provincial Food and Drug Administration. All student dormitories are equipped with air conditioning and 24-hour hot water supply, and the number of provincial civilized dormitories ranks among the top universities in the province. The campus network is fully covered.
The overall strength is strong
The university was established in August 2000 with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. In August 2004, the school moved to a new campus on the shores of Thomson Lake. On April 7, 2011, with the approval of the Ministry of Education and the Hubei Provincial People's Government, the East Lake Branch of Wuhan University was converted to Wuhan East Lake University. In September 2014, it was approved as one of the first batch of pilot colleges for the transformation and development of local undergraduate colleges in Hubei Province to application-oriented universities. Since its establishment, the admission score line of literature and history and science and engineering has always ranked among the top three of similar universities in the province; In recent years, the admission score line of literature and history and science and engineering has always ranked first among similar universities in the province. There are nearly 17,000 undergraduate and junior college students. In recent years, the school has developed into an institution of higher learning with a good social reputation.
The direction of running the school is clear
The school adheres to the socialist direction of running a school, and insists that the public welfare attribute of running a school will never change. With the goal of building a first-class application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics and people's satisfaction, the university cultivates high-quality application-oriented talents with ideological and political quality, professional skill quality and physical and psychological quality as the "one", practical ability and innovative spirit as the "two wings", and adapts to the needs of national and regional economic and social development, industrial transformation and upgrading, and public service development.
The educational concept is advanced
Based on the school-running orientation of "locality", "application-oriented" and "characteristic", the school has established the school-running philosophy of "cultivating people with virtue, quality first, harmonious development, and serving the society" and "teacher-oriented, student-oriented", adhering to the spirit of the school motto of "virtue, learning, truth-seeking, and innovation", focusing on cultivating applied talents at the undergraduate level, actively carrying out professional degree graduate education, and exploring a new way of scientific school-running with coordinated development of characteristics, structure, quality and efficiency. It is unique in the reform and development of higher education.
The faculty is abundant
The school has a team of teachers with noble morality, superb professionalism and reasonable structure, with 805 full-time teachers, including 31 young and middle-aged experts who enjoy special allowances from the State Council, experts with special allowances from the provincial government, and young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial levels, 79 professors, 270 associate professors and 114 doctoral students. Young and middle-aged teachers all have master's or doctoral degrees. The university is one of the first batch of similar universities in China to obtain the qualification of employing foreign experts recognized by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. The hiring of foreign cultural and educational experts and foreign staff provides strong support for students' foreign language learning, application for foreign graduate studies and study abroad.
The quality of teaching has been improved
At present, the school has 11 colleges, including the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, the School of Computer Science, the School of Life Science and Chemistry, the School of Management, the School of Economics, the School of Media and Art Design, the School of Grammar and Law, the School of Foreign Chinese Language and Literature, the School of International Education, and the School of Continuing Education, as well as 2 departments of ideological and political theory and basic courses, 74 general undergraduate majors, 1 provincial key discipline, 2 "Chutian Scholars Post Discipline", 3 provincial key undergraduate majors, and 4 undergraduate colleges and universities in Hubei Province "Professional Comprehensive Reform Pilot" Project, 5 Undergraduate Projects of Hubei Provincial Strategic Emerging (Pillar) Industry Talent Training Program, 6 Provincial Quality Resource Sharing Courses, 1 Provincial Quality Video Open Course, 2 Provincial Key Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, 2 Provincial Internship Training Bases, 1 Provincial College Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base, 1 Hubei Provincial University Pilot College Reform Project, 1 Jingchu Outstanding Engineer Collaborative Education Program Project, 1 Hubei Provincial Software Service Outsourcing Talent Training (Training) Base Project, 4 provincial outstanding young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation team projects. The school focuses on the development of five professional clusters: electronic information, equipment manufacturing, biochemical engineering, management and management, and cultural creativity. In 2016, it won the title of "National Private University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School Achievement Incubation Award" and "Hubei Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration School". The school's teachers have won 4 first prizes and 6 second prizes of provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. The National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute of Wuhan East Lake University has the qualifications for the appraisal of primary, intermediate and senior national vocational skills for more than 60 occupations (types of work) approved by the state. Students can obtain a number of national vocational qualifications while they are still in school. The school has cooperated with Wuhan Textile University and Xinjiang University to carry out professional degree postgraduate education.
The cooperation between schools and enterprises is close
The school has set up 9 professional steering committees for school-enterprise cooperation with the participation of experts from industries, enterprises and institutions, and cooperates with enterprises, media, banks and local governments such as Datang Mobile, Neusoft Group, Pactera Hilight, Hubei Third Ring Road, China Railway Railway, UFIDA Xindao, Jiahe Decoration, Renren Desai, Agricultural Bank of China, Jiayu County People's Government, etc., to jointly run majors, and schools and enterprises to jointly formulate training standards, jointly develop training programs, jointly improve the curriculum system, jointly develop teaching materials, jointly build teaching teams, and jointly build practice bases. Jointly implement the training process, jointly evaluate the quality of training, focus on cultivating students' "craftsman spirit" and practical ability, provide convenient conditions for students to expand their learning space and employment, and cultivate application-oriented talents urgently needed by enterprises and society.
Solid scientific research services
The teachers of the school have undertaken a number of national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, the Humanities and Social Science Research Project of the Ministry of Education, the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, the Social Science Foundation of Hubei Province and the Soft Science Key Project of the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and have obtained national invention patents. At present, there are scientific research institutions such as the Institute of Engineering Technology, the Institute of New Rural Development, and the Institute of Computer Software, and 10 scientific research teams have been set up for collaborative innovation of information services for new rural construction, intellectual property, electrical engineering and automation, and art design, and two provincial research centers have been established - Hubei Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Agricultural E-commerce and Hubei Provincial Intellectual Property Research Center, which are steadily implementing the "2011 Plan".
There is a wide range of international exchanges
The school has established extensive ties with more than 20 universities in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Japan and other countries. The Sino-foreign cooperative education project jointly organized with Southern New Hampshire University in the United States was approved by the Ministry of Education and successfully implemented. With many overseas universities such as the University of Western Australia in Australia, the University of Dresden in Germany, and Woosong University in South Korea, we have implemented student study tours, free exchange students, and direct trains from bachelor to master's degree; It has implemented a 1 1 joint master's program with the University of Economics and Management in Essen, Germany, a 3 1 1 master's program with New Zealand Business School and the University of Lincoln, and a 3 1 cooperation program with the University of Northampton in the UK and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in the UK.
The scholarship and financial aid system is complete
The university has established a scholarship and aid system with freshman scholarships, outstanding student scholarships and special scholarships as incentives, national scholarships, national inspirational scholarships, national grants and national student loans as the main channels, and student work-study and grants as the basic channels. The perfect policy and system of "awards, grants, loans, attendance, subsidies, exemptions, and reductions" to subsidize students enables students to be helped and rewarded for their difficulties.
Fruitful results in educating people
The school adheres to the educational ideology of "education-oriented" and "student-oriented, teacher-led", and the quality of talent training has been continuously improved. In the past three years, students have obtained 196 utility model patents and design patents; Students won 406 national awards and 536 provincial and ministerial awards in discipline competitions; 24 national college student innovation and entrepreneurship training projects have been approved, ranking first among similar universities in the province; The one-time pass rate of English College 4 and College 8 examinations is higher than the national average level of colleges and universities. Hu Jun, Zhu Hao, Wang Long, Zheng Shengdong, Li Hui, Xiong Haitao and a number of "Chinese College Students Self-improvement Star", "Chinese College Student of the Year Candidate", "Invention Star", "Innovation Double Hero", "Yangtze River Students" and so on continue to emerge. Since its establishment, more than 4,600 outstanding students have been admitted as graduate students by Yale University, Oxford University, the "Erasmus EU" program, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other famous universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad. More than 45,000 undergraduate and junior college graduates have devoted themselves to socialist construction. The outstanding performance of the graduates has won wide acclaim from the society.
Employment channels are unimpeded
The school closely combines the needs of the economic and social development of Hubei Province and Wuhan City Circle, adheres to the principle of connecting majors (groups) with industries, corresponding abilities of courses (modules), and cultivating Unicom employment, and implements the strategy of establishing a quality school. The school actively encourages college students to innovate and start businesses, and has set up an innovation and entrepreneurship fund of 20 million yuan, and provides free innovation and entrepreneurship venues. In recent years, 15% of graduates have been admitted to graduate school, and 5% of graduates have gone abroad for further study; The one-time employment rate of graduates has remained stable at more than 93% for many years, ranking among the top universities of the same kind.
