15 Facts About Hunan University

Hunan University, colloquially abbreviated as HuDa, is a national key public research university located in Changsha, Hunan, and a Double First Class University as well as a member of Project 211 and Project 985 of Chinese universities.

Hunan University is considered one of China's leading engineering research universities.

In 1937, it was transformed from a provincial university into a national university, renamed the National Hunan University, and designated by the Ministry of education, becoming the fifteenth national university.

From April 1938 to May 1941, the National Hunan University suffered serious losses and made it difficult to run the school, and during the Battle of Changsha, the National Hunan University was suspended.

In 1949, the name Hunan University was again adopted and the calligraphy of "Hunan University" was written by Mao Zedong in 1950 as soon as the People's Republic of China was founded.

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In 1959, Hunan University was officially restored after the national readjustment of higher education institutions.

In 1996, Hunan University became one of the national key universities sponsored by the major national program "Project 211".

In 2000, Hunan University was selected as a member of the "Project 985" to facilitate efforts and progress toward a comprehensive, research-oriented, and internationalized world-class university.

In 2017, Hunan University was listed in the Double First Class University Plan, the most recent major program for developing top research comprehensive universities in China.

Hunan University is a national key university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China, and a member of Project 211 and Project 985, as well as the Double First Class University Plan.

In October 2020, Hunan University has been selected as the National Intellectual Property Demonstration University among the first batch of 30 demonstration universities by the China National Intellectual Property Administration and the Ministry of Education of China.

Hunan University has established academic cooperation or academic exchange programs with over 160 oversea universities and research institutes since 1990s, such as Yale-China Association, University of California, Berkeley, Georgia Institute of Technology, Colorado State University, University of Waterloo, University of Nottingham, University of Leeds, University of Twente, Universitat Bremen, Ghent University, Nanyang Technological University and Monash University.

Hunan University is one of the Project 985 universities in China to form the BRICS Network University, a network of the BRICS member countries' higher education institutions engaged in cooperation and joining the BRICS Network University.

Hunan University has started to recruit international students since 1990s and is one of the Project 985 universities in China to launch an international student program taught entirely in English.

Hunan University is ranked in the top 300 research universities in the world based on several global university rankings such as ARWU, US News, and CWTS Leiden.