Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology (HUHST; ), established in 1978, is a state-owned provincial

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

of higher education approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is located in

Loudi Loudi () is a prefecture-level city located in central Hunan province, China. It is situated about southwest of the provincial capital of Changsha and is considered a small to medium size city within the province. According to the 2010 Census, ...

, a newly built city in the central part of

Hunan province Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiang ...

Academics

* Department of Political Science and Law * Department of Chinese Language and Literature * Department of Foreign Languages * Department of Economic Management * Department of Education Science * Department of Physical Science and Information Engineering * Department of Music * Department of Art * Department of Mathematics and Economic * Department of Electromechanical Engineering * Department of Chemistry and Materials Science * Department of Information Science and Engineering * Department of Physical Education * Department of Life Science

Library collections

Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology's total collection amounts to more than 1,12 million items.

Campus and Facilities

The university occupies an area coverage of about 700,000 m2 (1,050 Chinese acres), including 356,000 m2 constructed campus buildings. The collection in the

library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vi ...

includes 800,000 books, over 1,400 Chinese and foreign periodicals, 140,000 e-books and 6 academic periodical databases.

Disciplines and Courses

The university is divided into 16 faculties and 15 research centers. It offers undergraduate courses in the arts, sciences, technology, education, business, management, law, and agriculture.

Staff and students

Of its 892 staff members, there are 585 full-time teachers, including 1 Academician of Chinese Engineering Academy (the Honorary President of HUHST). There are 10,800 current full-time students, 5,000 part-time adult students and around 40,000 alumni.

Activities

The university publishes ''The Journal of Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology''. It has academic relationships with foreign universities from the US, UK, Australia, Singapore and Thailand.

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