Universities

China Three Gorges University (CTGU) was founded on 29 June 2000 with Ministry of Education approval, merging the former Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (Yichang) and the former Hubei Sanxia College. Institutional history dates to 1946; bachelor education began in 1978; postgraduate and international student education began in 1996. CTGU may confer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees and recruit CSC scholarship international students. In 2009, the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Provincial Government agreed to jointly build CTGU. It received Hubei’s “Advanced unit of opening up” award in 2010 and “Demonstration base of international student education” in 2014. It is described as a comprehensive university with strengths in hydropower-related disciplines. CTGU has 29 colleges and 70 undergraduate programs across science, engineering, medicine, arts, economics, management, law, education, and fine arts. It has 5 national-level characteristic undergraduate disciplines, 10 provincial branded undergraduate disciplines, 7 disciplines in the Ministry of Education “Outstanding Engineers” plan, and 8 disciplines taught in English. Graduate study: 2 primary-discipline doctoral programs, 20 primary-discipline master’s programs, 130 secondary-discipline master’s programs, and 12 professional master’s programs (engineering, MBA, MTI, etc.). There are 11 provincial key primary-discipline programs.