Wuhan College was established in 2003 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. It enrolls students nationwide and implements full-time undergraduate and junior college degree education. It is supervised by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education. Wuhan College is positioned to "build a first-class university and cultivate leading talents in the industry", and implement a characteristic training model of whole-person education, interdisciplinary development, school-enterprise cooperation, and internationalization.
Wuhan College has three colleges and four departments, namely, the School of Accounting and Finance, the School of Information Engineering, the School of Humanities, the Department of Business Administration, the Department of Art and Design, the Department of Law and the Department of Communication. The school has a large number of well-known universities at home and abroad from Massachusetts State University, Ohio State University, University of Reading, University of Manchester, University of Paris I, University of Sydney, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, etc. Experts and professors from, as well as part-time tutors from Huawei, Tencent, JD.com and other companies have joined. There are currently more than 12,000 students in the school.
The founder of the school is Mr. Chen Yidan, the main founder of Tencent, the founder of Tencent Charity Foundation, and the founder of the "Yidan Award". Mr. Chen Yidan is known as the “Godfather of China's Internet Public Welfare” and the “First Person of Internet Public Welfare”. He opened a precedent for non-profit public welfare universities in China by means of “no return for running a school”.
Wuhan College runs a school for public welfare, relying on social forces for development. In December 2016, the "Hubei Yidan University Education Development Foundation" completed the first round of co-construction fund raising, which is dedicated to supporting the continuous construction and development of Wuhan University. These include donations from Mr. Ma Huateng, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, Mr. Zhang Zhidong, the main founder of Tencent, Mr. Wu Xiaoguang, a member of the early founding team of Tencent, and other enthusiastic entrepreneurs and school board members. This is also the first time that a private university in China has completed donations in the form of a joint construction fund.
The whole-person development education philosophy and practice mode of Wuhan College focuses on students’ future value-added abilities and outstanding spirits. It not only pays attention to students’ progress in intelligence and knowledge, but also emphasizes their improvement in humanities, mental health, and morality. , The pursuit of values and beliefs, and the cultivation of a sense of responsibility as a citizen of a modern society.
The discipline construction of Wuhan University takes the development of interdisciplinary as a breakthrough, focusing on the development of artificial intelligence, network security, financial technology, health science, intelligent legal affairs, intelligent manufacturing and other disciplines. It has established Tencent-Wuhan University Cyberspace Security Center and Artificial Intelligence Center. Approved school-level scientific research platform.
Through the interaction between academics and enterprises, Wuhan College creates an ecosystem of "production, study and research", and cultivates industry-leading talents with the ability to apply knowledge and the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. The school has cooperated with many well-known companies such as Tencent, Huawei, Jingdong, Sogou, Deloitte, etc., and opened Tencent classes, Huawei classes, Jingdong classes, accounting (for the Royal Chartered Accountants), and financial management (for the Royal Chartered Management Accountants) And other training models. Wuhan College hires corporate executives as application professors, and achieves mutual benefit and win-win results with the school by guiding curriculum design, participating in student training, providing internship/employment support, training teachers, and cooperative scientific research projects. In 2015, the "National-level Makerspace" Tencent Makerspace/Wuhan College Entrepreneurship Base settled in Wuhan College. This is the only Tencent incubator in the country that is settled in colleges and universities.
Wuhan College strives to develop an international education that integrates Chinese and Western education, and cooperates with many well-known overseas universities such as the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, the University of Portland in the United States, the University of Newcastle in Australia, Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong. A multi-level inter-school exchange mechanism has been established, such as mutual visits of teachers and students, joint training, academic exchanges, and cooperative scientific research. The school vigorously develops international student education, establishes an international exchange and education college, promotes international cooperation and exchanges, and focuses on recruiting outstanding international students from the "Belt and Road" countries, serving the national strategy, local economy and well-known enterprises abroad, and the internationalization of higher education Talent training services.
The new campus of Wuhan University covers an area of more than 1,000 acres and is located on the bank of Huangjia Lake in Jiangxia District, Wuhan. It is planned and designed by Chinese architect He Jingtang, a master of Chinese architecture. The humanized garden-style campus can accommodate more than 15,000 students to study and live.