Railway Institute of Central South University

The predecessor of the Railway Campus of Central South University (formerly Changsha Railway School) was the Central South Civil Engineering and Architecture School, which was established by merging the civil engineering majors of Wuhan University, Hunan University, Nanchang University, Guangxi University and the railway majors of Sichuan University, Yunnan University and South China Institute of Technology during the adjustment of colleges and universities across the country in 1953. In 1958, the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish Hunan Institute of Technology based on the Central South Civil Engineering and Architecture School, and it was renamed Hunan University in 1959. In September 1960, in accordance with the spirit of the document No. 2345 of the Ministry of Railways, the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics and the Department of Telecommunications were added based on the three departments of Railway Construction, Railway Transportation and Bridges and Tunnels of Hunan University, and the Changsha Railway School was established, which was directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Railways. On April 29, 2000, with the approval of the State Council, Hunan Medical University, Changsha Railway Institute and Central South University of Technology merged to form Central South University. In 2004, it was listed as a centrally-administered university.

The campus covers an area of ​​more than 860 mu, with a building area of ​​more than 320,000 square meters, fixed assets of more than 400 million yuan, a library with a building area of ​​10,000 square meters, a collection of more than 800,000 books, and a full range of teaching, scientific research and living facilities.

The campus has two first-level national key disciplines, civil engineering and transportation engineering. It is one of the first batch of institutions in the country to obtain the right to confer doctoral and master's degrees, 19 disciplines have the right to confer doctoral degrees, and 43 disciplines have the right to confer master's degrees. There are 3 postdoctoral mobile stations. There are more than 10,000 students on campus. In the past 60 years, a total of more than 60,000 graduates of various types have been trained, and the first-time employment rate of graduates has remained above 97% for many years.

The campus currently has four fully-established secondary colleges, namely the School of Civil Engineering, the School of Transportation Engineering, the School of Public Administration, and the School of Continuing Education, as well as some majors in the School of Computer Science, the School of Automation, and the School of Architecture and Art.