Jianghan University () is a

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Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...

, China. Its campus is 1.4 km², with an additional 0.5 km² under construction. It lies in the Wuhan Economy and Technology Development Zone by the Lake Sanjiao. There are ten disciplines in the university:

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, fine arts,

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and

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. The university offers 42

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programs. There are about 1,000 full-time teachers, of whom 103 are full professors and about 400 associate professors. The number of full-time students is 15,600.

History

Jianghan University was created as a

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by the city government of Wuhan in 1981. It started a four-year undergraduate program in 1990s. In 2001, it merged with

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...

(Hankou branch) and Wuhan Worker's Medical College; it later moved to the current campus. Jianghan University was accredited in October 2001 as a comprehensive university by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It was established on the basis of the amalgamation of Jianghan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Hankou branch), Wuhan Institute of Education, and Wuhan Workers Medical College.

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