17/11/2016
Some history/ information about CTGU:
China Three Gorges University (CTGU) was founded on the 29th of June 2000 in Yichang City, the hydroelectric capital of the world, a city famous for its tourism attractions and home to the construction of the Three Gorges Project. CTGU is a comprehensive university. CTGU teaches a wide range of disciplines, enrolls students from all over the country as well as international students, and puts lots of efforts to improve and develop the hydroelectric field of study.
The university has a total area of 252 hectares. It consists of 21 colleges for postgraduate students, 35 specialties for master program and doctoral program which are under construction. There are 55 specialties for undergraduate students, which cover 8 fields, including science, engineering, medicine, arts, management, economics, law and pedagogy. There are totally over 20,000 full-time undergraduate students, more than 1,300 postgraduate students, over 400 international students, and 12,000 adult students.
CTGU has more than 1,600 full-time teachers, including 833 professors and associate professors, 27 Chutian Scholars and Three Gorges Scholars who are specially appointed as professors, and 375 instructors of postgraduate candidates. Meanwhile, CTGU has employed 268 part-time professors, including 10 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 35 famous foreign scholars, some of whom are Nobel Prize Winners.
The university is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, where there are worldwide famous Three Gorges Dam, Gezhouba Dam, and Qingjiang Geheyan Water Power Plant, the largest dam in Hubei Province. There is a long historic culture on celebrities and rich resources of Chinese traditional medicine and special ecological environment.
The university holds all kinds of advanced teaching facilities. The campus is so beautiful that all of the students think it is an ideal place for them to study.
