Hubei University of Medicine (Yunyang Medical College)

Hubei University of Medicine (HUM) was founded as Wuhan Medical College, Yunyang School in November 1965 and renamed Tongji Medical University, Yunyang Medical College in 1986. In 1994, HUM was independently instituted as Yunyang Medical College under the Approval of the State Education Commission. In 1996, Yunyang Medical College passed the National Undergraduate Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA) an accreditation organized by the State Education Commission. In 2006 Yunyang Medical College was evaluated as “Excellent” in the TQA conducted by the Ministry of Education. In 2010, Yunyang Medical College was renamed Hubei University of Medicine under the approval of Hubei Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education. In 2012, HUM was authorized by the State Council to be qualified of granting Master’s Degrees as well as to enroll international students. After 50 years development, HUM is becoming the premier medical university located in the joint area of central China and west China, the adjacent area of Hubei, Chongqing, Shanxi and Henan province, where the population is around 26,000,000. HUM’s campus covers 1,175,400 square meters, of which 390,000 square meters are for teaching and administration. The fixed assets amount to 2.683 billion RMB, with the teaching and research facilities making up 455 million RMB in assets. The HUM library has a collection of 840,000 volumes. The campus network is the only node for the China Education and Research network (CERNET) in the northwest of Hubei Province.