Introduction
Central South University
(CSU) is a comprehensive and national key university under the
direct administration of the Ministry of Education in China. CSU was
established in April, 2000 on the basis of the amalgamation of the
three former individual universities, namely Central South
University of Technology, Hunan Medical University and Changsha
Railway University. CSU is situated in Changsha, Hunan. Prof. Li
Jian is secretary of the Communist Party of China's CSU Committee,
and Prof. Huang Boyun, an academician of Chinese Academy of
Engineering, is president of CSU.
The fields of study at CSU
cover 10 branches of learning, namely engineering, science,
medicine, management, literature, law, economics, philosophy,
education and history. The university now offers 75 undergraduate
programs, 207 master's programs and 128 doctoral programs. It has 18
postdoctoral exchange centers, 17 national key disciplines, 4
national key laboratories, 7 national or ministry-level key training
or research centers and 5 national talent training bases and
research bases.
Among its faculty members, there are 3
academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 13 academicians of
Chinese Academy of Engineering, 458 doctoral supervisors, more than
1007 full professors and more than 2152 associate professors. At
present, the total number of full-time students at CSU has reached
more than 40,000, including more than 13,000 graduates working for
master and doctoral degrees, about 33,000 undergraduates, more than
81 overseas students and more than 15,000 students taking courses in
degree and non-degree programs of adult education.
CSU is
among the 32 universities first acceded to the "211 Project". CSU
covers an area of 1,990,394 square meters and has a total floor
space of 1,627,769 square meters. It also uses advanced teaching and
research equipment with a total value of 1.4 billion yuan (RMB). The
university libraries have a collection of 2,930,000 volumes.
Information digitalization and automatic management are applied in
these libraries. The university has 3 top affiliated hospitals which
enjoy good reputation.
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