Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), is a state key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. WUT is among the first batch of universities which have entered the national “211 Project” and China’s “Double-First Class” Initiative.
WUT has three campuses, including Mafangshan campus, Yujiatou campus and the South Lake campus, with a total land area of 2.67 million square meters and a total gross floor area of 1.95 million square meters. Currently, WUT has over 50,000 faculty and students, 24 academic schools, 4 National Technology Innovation Bases and 4 modern libraries with a collection of 3.61 million books. Since 2000, WUT has been awarded over 20 national science and technology prizes, ranking in the forefront of all Chinese colleges and universities. In 2019, WUT was listed in Times Higher Education World University Rankings, U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities and QS Asia University Rankings.
Since the founding of New China, WUT has cultivated more than 600,000 senior professionals. In the recent 10 years, the first-time employment rate of graduates has remained above 95%, and about 55% of total employment join world’s top 500 enterprises and fields of strategic emerging industries.