Brief Introduction of CCNU
CCNU is a key normal university directly under the Chinese Ministry of Education. Located in Wuhan, a major hub of transportation, it has a campus of over 2,000 mu with a construction area of more than 600,000 square meters on Guizishan, a hill bordering the East Lake and the South Lake. It has brilliant flowers and green woods all year round. With a serene environment, especially the fragrance of osmanthus flowers all over, the campus is an ideal place for teaching and studying.
A hundred years of vicissitudes and striving fostered this celebrated university. The predecessor of HZU is the combination of Huazhong University, Zhonghua University and the Pedagogical College of Zhongyuan University, with Huazhong University as the main part. Huazhong University was the largest and most influential mission university in South Central China, it developed from Wenhua Academy (the first college of mission school) that was founded in 1903. In 1951, the public Huazhong University came into being after the Pedagogical College of Zhongyuan University merged with Huazhong University. Then, it was reorganized into Huazhong Higher Normal School in 1952 and later renamed Huazhong Teachers College in 1953. In 1985, the university was formally entitled Huazhong University and Deng Xiaoping, one of the founders of Zhongyuan University, inscribed the new name of the university. In1993, President Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the university “Developing normal education, improving the nation’s quality”.
The university attaches great importance to the development of disciplines. After adjusting and expanding some of the disciplines, HZU has formed a complete and optimized disciplinary system consisting literature, history, philosophy, natural science, engineering, education, economics, law, agriculture and management. Now, it comprises 18 schools, 9 department and 82 research institutes(centers) and offers 53 doctoral programs and 94 master’s degree programs. The university also has 5 first-grade doctor’s degree disciplines, 3 national key disciplines, 9 provincial and ministerial level key disciplines, 5 post-doctoral programs. Moreover, it has established 2 national bases for personnel training & scientific research, and 3 national key bases for the research of humanities and social sciences. Our university has set up its Continual Education College, Higher Vocational Education College, Network Education College and International Cultural Exchange College. Entrusted by the Ministry of Education, it also established a Teachers Training Center for Teachers Universities and Colleges in South Central China and a Training Center for Education Administrators from the same region.
HZU boasts an array of qualified teachers as well as scholars full of vigor and vitality. Among a total of over 700 professors and associate professors, there are 3 experts with national achievements and 22 with provincial achievements. Apart from that, 8 are selected by the Ministry of Education for “Cross-Century Talents Project” and 1 for “Talent Project”. HZU also has many of honorary professors and adjunct professors, such as famous writer Wang Meng, sociologist Zheng Hangsheng, historian Zhang Zhengming, physicist Meng Dazhong, the academician of Chinese Academy Yuan Longping, the chief scientist in the field of Nanometer 973 project Zhang Lide, and the academician of Chinese Academy of Science Ding Xiaqi.
HZU has made noticeable achievements in scientific research. Since the 7th Five-Year Plan was carried out, our teaching staff have been entrusted with a great many important scientific research projects such as national high-tech project 863,national “Torch Program”
and some international cooperation projects. During the period of the 8th Five-Year Plan, our faculty members were involved in 744 scientific research projects, and more than 130of them won different awards at the provincial/ministry level or above.
The university puts fostering qualified talents in the first place, carries out teaching reform to improves its teaching quality. Since the country began its reform and opening-up endeavor, the university had enrolls undergraduate students and graduates students from all parts of China. It admits ethnic minority students from Guizhou, Guangxi, Xinjiang and Tibet to attend the college preparatory classes. HZU also recruits international students. At present the university has a student body of over 20,000, of whom 2000 are postgraduates. In 1999 and 2000, 3 doctorate these were awarded “Best Hundred Doctorate Theses” in China. As the university has attached great importance to quality-oriented education, the graduates are widely welcomed by the society. In the years from 1999 to 2003, its one-time employment rate of undergraduates ranked the 19th, 12th, 6th, 5th, and 2nd in the country respectively.
HZU carries on a wide range of international academic exchanges. It has regular academic links and cooperation with more than 20 universities, colleges and research institutes in America, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France, Italy, Britain, Japan, Switzerland, Bulgaria.
Foreign experts and teachers are regularly invited to teach at the university and many faculty members have been sent abroad for further study, visit or joint research. Most of them have returned home and become the backbone in teaching and research; a good number of them are active on international academic rostrum and have made admirable contributions to science, technology, culture and education exchanges between China and foreign nations.
Huazhong University had set a goal to reshape itself to be comprehensive in curriculums and research-oriented with distinctive features. With boundless enthusiasm and enterprising spirit, the faculty and students of Huazhong University are determined to make greater progress o build HZU into a high-level university well-known both at home and abroad.
Nestled in Chengdu, a time-honored city famous for its history, culture and landscapes , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is reputed as ” the cradle of the Chinese national electronic industry “.
In 1956 the inception of Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering (CIRE), now UESTC, ushered in the first higher education institute of electronic information of new china under premier Zhou Enlai’s personal disposal and care. CIRE was, and then created from the electronic divisions of such well-established universities as Jiaotong University, Nanjing Institute of Technology and South China Institute of Technology. As early as in the 1960’s, it was ranked as one of the nation’s key higher education institutions. In 1997, UESTC was included in the first group of universities in the “211 Project”, a national program of promoting China’s higher education. In September 2001, UESTC was selected as one of the Chinese universities that gain special financial support from both the Ministry of Education and the local Provincial Government （Project “985″）.
Today UESTC has developed into a multidisciplinary university directly under the Ministry of Education, which has electronics information science and technology as its nucleus, engineering as its major field, and incorporates science, management and liberal arts.
UESTC now consists of 13 colleges including 29 departments, plus the Department of Physical Education and Goldtel Software Engineering & Microelectronics School. It offers 40 undergraduate programs, 46 master-degree granting programs, and the MBA and Engineering master programs. UESTC has 25 specialties authorized to confer PhD and 5 for post doctorates.
UESTC is known as the only higher institute, which covers all the 6 state key disciplines in electronics and information science. UESTC is authorized to offer 14 positions in 7 disciplines involved in “Cheung Kong Scholars Programme”.
UESTC has a campus that occupies 58 hectares with a total floor space of over 55,000 square meters. It possesses 25,000 sets of equipment, a library of over one million volumes, and a modern stadium with 3,000 seats. Its fixed assets reach 330 million RMB as well as the modern public facilities. UESTC has more than 3，000 faculty members, of whom 5 are academicians of CAS & CAE, 145 are PH.D tutors, 220 are full professors and 571 are associate professors. UESTC has a current enrollment of 26,000 students, including 9，400 PhD candidates and postgraduates. Since its foundation in 1956, UESTC has trained over 60,000 graduates for the country.
In 2001, the campus took on a new look under the restructured and strengthened leadership. Encouraged by the spirit of “strive for the excellent; never settle for being adequate”. The new leadership started a new way to make UESTC prosperity. That is, to merge its development with the local construction; to seek support with the best service, to strive to advancement with contributions, and to develop UESTC into the resources of Hi-tech, and the base of cultivating talents with creativity. The leadership attached equal importance to its strategic goal: that is, to turn UESTC into the first -rate university leading the world in electronics and information science. The implementation consists of two stages: by 2016, turning UESTC into one of the best universities in China, and by 2036 one of the best universities with the world reputation。
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By Jennifer Fishbein, BusinessWeek, 26.9.07
Even if the U.S. dominates the top spots, Europe accounts for one-third of the leading 100 schools in a respected annual ranking of the world’s universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Shanghai grades institutions on the number of alumni and faculty winning Nobel Prizes in the sciences and Fields Medals in math, on the number of articles authored by faculty in selected scientific journals, and on overall academic performance in relation to the size of the school.
University of Cambridge
England
Global rank: 4
The name of this 800-year-old institution is synonymous with educational excellence—and no wonder. Cambridge has racked up 81 Nobel prize winners, more than any university in the world. Its illustrious alumni include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and John Maynard Keynes. And Cambridge isn’t resting on its laurels: It’s busily investing for future excellence, for example with a new $84.3 million cancer research center.
Oxford University
England
Global rank: 10
The oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford traces its roots to the 11th century, with alumni ranging from Sir Walter Raleigh to Rupert Murdoch. Its library is Britain’s second-largest, after the British Library, and its botanical garden is the most diverse in the world. Oxford grows patents as well as plants: A university subsidiary, Isis Innovation, markets technologies developed by Oxford researchers, filing more than 50 patent applications a year.
Imperial College London
England
Global rank: 23
Renowned for its medical, scientific, and technological breakthroughs, Imperial College boasts an average starting salary for graduates of $52,390, the highest of any British university. Research undertaken by its staff, which includes the personal physicians to the Queen and the Prime Minister, combats tropical and infectious diseases and tackles the dangers of global warming. This year, a graduation ceremony was held in Singapore to reflect the large number of students coming from Asia.
University College London
England
Global rank: 25
UCL was founded in 1826 to educate Catholics, Jews, and others barred from Britain’s two other universities at the time, Oxford and Cambridge, which accepted only members of the Church of England. The largest of more than 50 colleges and institutes that comprise the University of London, it specializes in biomedical and physical science research. Alumni include Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Graham Bell—and all four members of the band Coldplay.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Switzerland
Global rank: 27
Albert Einstein is one of 21 Nobel laureates among the alumni of this 150-year-old science and engineering school. Lately the institute has been shaking up the world of robotics. Researchers are working on a project to create robots to help homebound elderly people with household tasks. A prototype has been programmed to respond to verbal commands such as, “Make and bring the coffee.”
University of Paris 6
France
Global rank: 39
Officially called Pierre & Marie Curie University, this school near the Latin Quarter of Paris is one of Europe’s largest universities of science and medicine, with about 40,000 students and researchers. Its 180 laboratories study a vast array of subjects, ranging from astrophysics to the genetics of yeasts.
University of Utrecht
Netherlands
Global rank: 42
Founded in 695 by an Irish Catholic archbishop as a seminary for future priests and young nobility, Utrecht is now the Netherlands’ biggest university, with 28,000 students. It’s particularly strong in the sciences, granting degrees in medicine, veterinary medicine, psychology, biomedical science, and pharmacy. The university lures fresh talent with its “high potential program,” offering five-year research grants for the most promising young Dutch minds.
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Global rank: 46
Denmark’s largest university has more than 37,000 students and a history of research breakthroughs. Just this year, researchers discovered DNA from living bacteria over half a million years old—by far the oldest living organism ever found—which could lead to a better understanding of how cells age and whether life could exist on Mars. Last year, the university hosted the first-ever Chinese student job fair in Denmark, to entice more Chinese to study there.
University of Manchester
England
Global rank: 48
Manchester is one of Europe’s foremost centers for biomedical research and boasts strong science and engineering programs. Ernest Rutherford began his efforts to split the atom here when he became chair of the physics department in 1907. Other degree programs include midwifery, town and country planning, criminology, and textiles and paper science.
University of Paris-Sud 11
France
Global rank: 52
This science and technology university, comprising five campuses spread across the southern suburbs of Paris, hosts France’s largest academic center for pharmaceutical research. The university’s 120 laboratories are working on a variety of research subjects, including cancer, stem cells, and antibiotic resistance. The 200-acre main campus in Orsay includes woods and a botanical garden.
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Global rank: 53 (tied)
This medical university in Stockholm, which administers the Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine, conducts research on subjects such as pregnancy-related diseases in poor countries and genetic predisposition to cancer. It recently founded the Stockholm Brain Institute with two other Swedish institutions, to treat and prevent disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, and attention-deficit disorder.
Ludwig Maximilians University
Germany
Global rank: 53 (tied)
This Munich-based university is Germany’s largest, with 47,000 students and 18 faculties in a variety of specialties including veterinary medicine and Protestant and Catholic theology. Science is its strong suit, with research centers focusing on topics including nanoscience, neuroscience, biodiversity, genetics, and theoretical physics.
University of Edinburgh
Scotland
Global rank: 53 (tied)
This top Scottish university draws acclaim for biomedical research, including work on stem cells that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep and advances in T-cell immunotherapy for cancer patients. Founded in 1582, it has a long roster of impressive graduates. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine here and is said to have based the character of Sherlock Holmes on one of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bell.
Technical University Munich
Germany
Global rank: 56
This university’s academic reach extends far beyond its core science and engineering programs. For example, it has a sports-science faculty, offering degrees in sports-injury prevention and rehabilitation and sports media, economics, and management. Students interested in industrial chemistry can study at the university’s institute in Singapore.
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Global rank: 58
Switzerland’s largest university, with 24,000 students, is known for its prowess in science and medicine, including its university hospital and veterinary hospital. Albert Einstein taught physics here from 1909 to 1911, and in 1996 an immunology professor, Rolf Zinkernagel, won a Nobel prize for his co-discovery of how the immune system distinguishes between infected and non-infected cells.
University of Bristol
England
Global rank: 62
Bristol runs one of the premier centers for the study of learning disabilities in Britain and is one of the few to offer degrees in deaf studies. The university has opened major research facilities nearly every year this decade, adding a science center and public affairs institute in 2007. One of its dormitories, Churchill Hall, served as a base for U.S. Army generals who planned the Normandy landings in 1944.
University of Heidelberg
Germany
Global rank: 65
Heidelberg’s reach extends all the way to Latin America, where it has a center for postgraduate study in Santiago, Chile, offering courses jointly with leading local institutions. The university’s Center for Social Investment, opened in 2006, examines the role of philanthropy and civil society, and its Center for Astronomy boasts 100 scientists in that field, the largest number at any German university.
Uppsala University
Sweden
Global rank: 66
This Swedish university offers a variety of unusual degrees, including masters in international humanitarian action, roads to democracy, and medical nuclide techniques. Founded in 1477, Uppsala is the oldest university in Scandinavia and home to Sweden’s oldest botanical garden, planted in 1655.
University of Oslo
Norway
Global rank: 69
Founded in 1811 when Norway was under Danish rule, the University of Oslo is the country’s oldest and largest academic institution, with 30,000 students. Its faculty of medicine is known for advances in neurobiology, transplantation immunology, nutritional science, and cancer research, and the university runs a medical center in Moscow. The University Museum of Cultural Heritage exhibits Viking ships unearthed in royal burial mounds.
University of Leiden
Netherlands
Global rank: 71
William of Orange founded this university in 1575 as a gift to the city for withstanding a long siege by the Spaniards. Strong in the social sciences and the arts but lacking faculties of economics and business, Leiden opened a school of management in 2002 only to shut it down four years later. Albert Einstein lectured here regularly throughout the 1920s. In 2005, his manuscript on the quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas was discovered in a university library.
(Source:businessweek.com)
The world top hundred universities:
1 Harvard Univ USA
2 Stanford Univ USA
3 Univ Cambridge UK
4 Univ California - Berkeley USA
5 Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) USA
6 California Inst Tech USA
7 Princeton Univ USA
8 Univ Oxford UK
9 Columbia Univ USA
10 Univ Chicago USA
11 Yale Univ USA
12 Cornell Univ USA
13 Univ California - San Diego USA
14 Tokyo Univ Japan
15 Univ Pennsylvania USA
16 Univ California - Los Angeles USA
17 Univ California - San Francisco USA
18 Univ Wisconsin - Madison USA
19 Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor USA
20 Univ Washington - Seattle USA
21 Kyoto Univ Japan
22 Johns Hopkins Univ USA
23 Imperial Coll London UK
24 Univ Toronto Canada
25 Univ Coll London UK
25 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA
27 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Switzerland
28 Washington Univ - St. Louis USA
29 Rockefeller Univ USA
30 Northwestern Univ USA
31 Duke Univ USA
32 New York Univ USA
33 Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities USA
34 Univ Colorado - Boulder USA
35 Univ California - Santa Barbara USA
36 Univ British Columbia Canada
36 Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center USA
38 Vanderbilt Univ USA
39 Univ Utrecht Netherlands
40 Univ Texas - Austin USA
41 Univ Paris 06 France
42 Univ California - Davis USA
43 Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park USA
44 Rutgers State Univ - New Brunswick USA
45 Tech Univ Munich Germany
46 Karolinska Inst Stockholm Sweden
47 Univ Edinburgh UK
48 Univ Paris 11 France
48 Univ Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh USA
48 Univ Southern California USA
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51 Univ Munich Germany
52 Univ Rochester USA
53 Australian Natl Univ Australia
54 Osaka Univ Japan
55 Univ California - Irvine USA
56 Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA
57 Univ Maryland - Coll Park USA
57 Univ Zurich Switzerland
59 Univ Copenhagen Denmark
60 Univ Bristol UK
61 McGill Univ Canada
62 Carnegie Mellon Univ USA
63 Univ Leiden Netherlands
64 Univ Heidelberg Germany
65 Case Western Reserve Univ USA
66 Moscow State Univ Russia
67 Univ Florida USA
68 Univ Oslo Norway
69 Tohoku Univ Japan
69 Univ Sheffield UK
71 Purdue Univ - West Lafayette USA
72 Univ Helsinki Finland
73 Ohio State Univ - Columbus USA
74 Uppsala Univ Sweden
75 Rice Univ USA
76 Univ Arizona USA
77 King’s Coll London UK
78 Univ Manchester UK
79 Univ Goettingen Germany
80 Michigan State Univ USA
80 Univ Nottingham UK
82 Brown Univ USA
82 Univ Melbourne Australia
82 Univ Strasbourg 1 France
85 Ecole Normale Super Paris France
86 Boston Univ USA
86 Univ Vienna Austria
88 McMaster Univ Canada
88 Univ Freiburg Germany
90 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem Israel
91 Univ Basel Switzerland
92 **** Univ Sweden
93 Univ Birmingham UK
93 Univ Roma - La Sapienza Italy
95 Humboldt Univ Berlin Germany
95 Univ Utah USA
97 Nagoya Univ Japan
97 Stockholm Univ Sweden
99 Tufts Univ USA
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1.Harvard University
2.John Hopkins University
3.University of Pennsylvania
4.Washington University in St.Louis
5.University of Californnia-San Francisco
6.University of Washington
7.Stanford University (CA)
8.Duke University (NC)
8.Yale University (CT)
10.Baylor College of Medicine (TX)
10.Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY)
10.University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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14.University of California - San Diego
15.Cornell University (Weill) (NY)
15.University of Chicago (Pritzker)
15.University of Pittsburgh
18.Vanderbilt University (TN)
19.U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas
20.University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
21.Case Western Reserve University (OH)
21.Northwestern University (Feinberg) (IL)
23.Emory University (GA)
23.Mayo Medical School (MN)
23.University of Colorado - Denver and Health Sciences Center
23.University of Virginia
27.Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY)
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27.University of Wisconsin - Madison
30.University of Iowa (Carver)
31.Ohio State University
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32.Oregon Health and Science University
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