Hubei University for Nationalities

Hubei University for Nationalities was approved by The Ministry of Education in 1998. The University is actually a result of the merger of the former Hubei Institute for Nationalities and the former Enshi Medical Institute. As the key public university of provincial level with its focus on undergraduate education, it has been jointly funded and constructed by Hubei Provincial Government and The State Ethnic Affairs Commission ever since 2008. Hubei University for Nationalities is located in Enshi City, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in southwest Hubei Province. It is convenient in transportation connecting Yichang in the east, Hunan in the south, Chongqing in the west and Shanxi in the north. Expressways and railways run across the entire territory, and daily flights to and from Wuhan, Beijing and Guangzhou make intercourse with different parts of the country far easier than before. The University with its favorable environment and beautiful scenery is a wonderful place for learning and doing research. Hubei University for Nationalities gathers many prominent scholars and professors. There are about 1,077 full-time teachers, of whom 229 have PhD degree, 509 have senior academic titles and 130 are professors, and 208 part-time teachers. The campus covers an area of around 1,700 mu, with a total construction area of 625,900 square meters. The library of the University houses over 1,570,000 volumes of paper books, and it has built a modern digital library with the number of e-books over 3,050,000. The total value of facilities for teaching and academic research reaches RMB 1.5 billion Yuan. The University has over 18,000 full-time students.