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Hunan University (simplified Chinese:
湖南大学; traditional Chinese:
湖南大學; pinyin: Húnán Dàxué)
located in Changsha, Hunan province, is one of the
oldest and most important national universities in the People's Republic of
China.
History
It traces its history back to the Yuelu Academy founded in the Song Dynasty, over
1,030 years ago (千年学府). It is arguable if this makes Hunan
University the
oldest university in the world since the original Yuelu Academy
had no degree-granting mechanism, or other features of a Western
university. Moreover, two North African universities predate Yuelu
Academy. The Yuelu Academy was a venue for Chinese scholars and
their students to meet and study deep issues very much like what Aristotle and his students
did in ancient Greece.
Hunan University is among China's top universities in both
education and research. Its Chemistry, Civil
Engineering, Industrial Design, Software
Engineering, and Business and International Trade
programs are some of its strongest. The Chinese calligraph of
Yuelu Academy was written by Emperor Zhenzong of Song in
1015, and the Chinese calligraph of Hunan
University was written by Mao Zedong in 1950 as soon as the People's
Republic of China was founded. Both events were considered as
extremely prestigious in China.
Pond at Hunan University.
Sign at Hunan University.
For more than one thousand years, academic and educational
activities have continued uninterrupted here. In the course of its
development from Yuelu Academy to Hunan University, this
time-honored institution has committed itself to fostering people
of great talent for society and has produced large numbers of
figures of outstanding scholarship. Among its prominent students
are Wang Fuzhi, a
celebrated philosopher in Chinese history; Wei Yuan, a reformist
who first advocated the idea of learning from the West; Zeng Guofan, the first
Chinese to initiate the Westernization Movement and to make
arrangements for a modern factory in China; Zuo Zongtang, a national hero who arranged
to build China’s first navy and took great pains to defend and
develop Xinjiang; Guo Songtao, China’s
first ambassador to a foreign country; Cai E, a major leader in defending the Republic of
China; the first Chinese to set foot on the continent of
Antarctica; and Ci Yungui, the chief designer of China's first
super computer.
The 2008 Times
Higher Education Supplement [THES] World University Rankings
ranked Hunan University as follows:[1]
Administration
Colleges and Departments
- College of Civil Engineering
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- College of Electrical and Information Engineering
- College of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
- College of Computer and Communications
- Software College
- College of Business Administration
- College of Mathematics and Econometrics
- College of Material Science and Engineering
- School of Design
- College of Architecture
- College of Mechanics and Aerospace
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- College of Physics and Microelectronics
- College of Foreign Languages
- College of Finance
- College of Accounting
- College of Statistics
- College of Law
- College of Economics and Trade
- College of Journalism and Communications
- College of Broadcasting, Film and Television Arts
- College of Chinese Language and Literature
- College of International Studies
- Yuelu
Academy
- Institute of Educational Science
- Institute of Life Science and Technology
- College of Political Science and Public Administration
- College of Marxist Studies
- College of Physical Education
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