China University of Geosciences

China University of Geosciences is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a university approved by the state to establish a graduate school. It is a national "211 Project" and a national "Double First-Class" construction university. China University of Geosciences is located on the bank of Wuhan East Lake and the foot of Nanwang Mountain. The school is mainly characterized by earth sciences. The disciplines cover science, engineering, literature, management, economics, law, education, art and other categories. Two first-level disciplines, geology and geological resources and geological engineering, have been selected as "Double First-Class" construction disciplines.

Campus Overview

China University of Geosciences is located in the hinterland of Wuhan East Lake National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. It currently has two campuses, Nanwangshan Campus and Future City Campus. The campus covers a total area of ​​1,474,353 square meters and the total area of ​​the school building is 1,385,752.04 square meters. The school has the national 4A-level tourist attraction - the Shaw Museum. The campus environment is beautiful, and the atmosphere of education, scientific research and academics is strong. It has modern teaching buildings, libraries, student apartments, stadiums and other related supporting facilities, providing students with a good learning, living and growth environment.

School philosophy

Adhere to the school motto of "hard work, simplicity, truth-seeking and pragmatism", adhere to the school spirit and style of "strictness in geography", adhere to the values ​​of "seeking harmonious development between man and nature", and strive to cultivate high-quality talents who can shoulder the great task of national rejuvenation, "high moral character, solid foundation, profound professionalism, unity of knowledge and action", and strive to provide high-level talents and scientific and technological support for solving resource and environmental problems faced by regions, industries and even mankind.

Adhering to the school management philosophy of "strengthening characteristics, striving for first-class, governing schools according to law, openness and tolerance", creating a cultural atmosphere of "independent thinking, rigorous scholarship, courage to explore, and pursuit of excellence", and strive to build a superior and unique teaching and scientific research environment. Focusing on improving the quality of education, we will promote the reform of the talent training model of "three integrations" of "cross-disciplinary professional integration, integration of teaching and scientific research practice, and integration of innovative entrepreneurship education and professional education", and enhance the ability of scientific and technological innovation and social service. We will adhere to the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, developing the school with science and technology, and internationalization, vigorously promote the comprehensive reform with the academic excellence plan as the core, and strive to build an internationally renowned research university in the field of earth science on the basis of building a high-level university with first-class earth science and coordinated development of multiple disciplines, and strive to achieve the goal of running a world-class university in the field of earth science.

School conditions

The school currently There are 3,369 faculty members, including 1,956 teachers. There are 13 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 631 doctoral supervisors, 452 professors, and 814 associate professors.

There are 16 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 19 winners of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, and 29 selected as "New Century Excellent Talents" by the Ministry of Education. The school has 3 innovative research groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 3 innovative teams of the Ministry of Education, 6 national teaching teams, 1 national teaching master, and 9 Hubei Provincial Teaching Masters.

The school currently has various scientific research institutions, laboratories, research There are 86 research institutes (institutes, centers), including 2 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 international science and technology cooperation base for geological engineering of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 1 demonstration base for innovative talent training of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The school has a complete experimental practice teaching system, with 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center. Since its establishment, the school has successively established teaching practice bases in Zhoukoudian, Beidaihe, Zigui and other places. Among them, the Zhoukoudian field practice base is known as the "cradle of geological engineers", the "National Geological Experiment (Practice) Teaching Demonstration Center", and the "National Basic Science and Technology Demonstration Center". The school library has a building area of ​​more than 27,000 square meters and has rich literature resources. It has formed a collection system with scientific and technological literature as the main body and geoscience literature as the feature, and has built a service platform based on information technology to provide effective literature resource guarantee for teachers and students.

Discipline layout

The school has built a discipline ecosystem dominated by earth science and with multi-disciplinary mutual support and coordinated development around the needs of the frontier of disciplines and economic and social development. There are currently 2 national first-level key disciplines and 16 Hubei provincial key disciplines, including "Geology", "Geological Resources and Geological Engineering" The two first-level disciplines have ranked first in all previous national discipline assessments; there are 23 colleges and 69 undergraduate majors; there are 16 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 34 first-level discipline master programs, and 15 postdoctoral research mobile stations; there are 10 professional degree awarding rights, including engineering master, MBA, MPA, etc., among which the engineering master major covers 14 engineering fields.

Talent training

The school has a complete talent training system of "bachelor-master-doctor". Among them, there are 31,040 full-time students, including 18,214 undergraduates, 10,758 master's students, 2,068 doctoral students, and 787 international students; there are more than 50,000 registered students in adult education and online education. It has a national geological science talent training base and a geological engineering talent training base of the Ministry of Land and Resources. In the more than 60 years since its establishment, the school has trained nearly 300,000 senior talents for the country.

The school fully implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, aims to cultivate outstanding talents with "high moral character, solid foundation, profound professional skills, and unity of knowledge and practice", and strives to build a "three-in-one" talent training model that integrates interdisciplinary majors, teaching and scientific research practice, and innovation and entrepreneurship education with professional education. Our students have repeatedly won good results in high-level competitions such as the National Challenge Cup Competition, Mathematical Modeling Competition, English Competition, and Electronic Design Competition, which have a wide range of influence.

The school combines the promotion of excellent sports traditions with the cultivation of sound personality, and has gradually formed a distinctive sports education and teaching system. Our students have won more than 250 gold medals and more than 500 silver and bronze medals in major international and domestic sports competitions. In May 2012, the school's mountaineering team successfully climbed Mount Everest, becoming the first university mountaineering team in my country to climb the world's highest peak.

Scientific Research

The school has characteristics and advantages in research fields such as geology, mineral resources and energy, geological engineering, geophysics, hydrogeology and environmental geology, geographic information systems and surveying and mapping, materials science and chemistry, economics and management, and has achieved a number of important results. Since 2010, the university has won 2 National Science and Technology Progress Special Prizes (participation), 1 National Natural Science Second Prize, 3 National Science and Technology Progress Second Prizes, 38 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, 1 "Top Ten Chinese Science Progress", 2 "Top Ten Geological Science and Technology Progress", and 2 "Top Ten Geological Prospecting Results". There are 5 "Highly Cited Scientists" of Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters), 9 "Highly Cited Scholars" of Elsevier, and 61 authors of ESI highly cited papers. The "Earth Science" (Chinese version) sponsored by the school is included in the internationally renowned retrieval system EI Compendex, the "Journal of Earth Sciences" (English version) is included in the internationally renowned retrieval system SCIE, and the "Journal of China University of Geosciences" (Social Science Edition) is included in CSSCI.

The school insists on being based in Hubei and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, facing the whole country, vigorously promoting the cooperation between government, industry, academia and research, and actively serving the economic and social development of the industry, region and locality. The school and the Wuhan Municipal People's Government jointly established the Wuhan Institute of Geological Resources and Environmental Industrial Technology, which adopts a market-oriented operation model, builds an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem, strives to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and serves the national innovation-driven strategy. The school has also established industry-university-research platforms and industrial incubation bases (Shenzhen Institute and Zhejiang Institute) in the "Pearl River Delta" and "Yangtze River Delta" regions.

International Exchange

The school actively carries out foreign academic, scientific and cultural exchanges, and has signed friendly cooperation agreements with more than 100 universities in the United States, France, Australia, Russia and other countries. In 2012, the "International University Alliance of Earth Sciences" was established by our school, in conjunction with twelve world-renowned universities such as Stanford University, Macquarie University, University of Waterloo, University of Hong Kong, and University of Oxford. The alliance universities have achieved a win-win development of talent training and scientific and technological innovation through resource sharing, exchanges and cooperation in the field of geosciences. In recent years, the school has sent more than 900 teachers and students abroad to visit, study abroad, and study for master's and doctoral degrees each year, and invited more than 400 foreign experts to visit, lecture and attend meetings at the school each year.

With the support of the school, the Confucius Institute at Bryant University in the United States, the Confucius Institute at Alfred University in the United States, and the Confucius Institute at the University of Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria have been established. It has 6 international scientific research cooperation centers, including the "Sino-US Joint Trenchless Engineering Research Center". To implement the national "Belt and Road" strategy, the "Silk Road College", "Jordan Research Center" and "Silk Road International Research Center for Geological Resources" have been established.

Related data as of December 2021