Location
Central South University (CSU) is situated in Changsha, a famous historical and cultural city in Hunan, China, and covers an area of 2,760,000 m2, with its campuses distributed on the east and west of Xiangjiang River. Backed by the majestic Yuelu Mountain and facing the grand Xiangjiang River, CSU has pleasing scenery and is ideal for study and research.

Profile
As a Top university directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China, CSU is one of the first universities admitted into “Project 211” (the Chinese government's endeavor aiming at strengthening about 100 institutions of higher education and key disciplinary areas), “Project 985” (the Chinese government's effort to found world-class universities), and “Plan 2011” (the Chinese government's another initiative to improve universities' innovation forces). In September 2017, CSU was enlisted as one of the A-Level "Double First Rate" universities by the State Council. Currently, the Secretary of the CPC Committee of CSU is Yi Hong and the President is Tian Hongqi.

Faculty
CSU insists in strengthening by talent cultivation, so it has created has a strong faculty including 2 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 14 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 17 talents from the national "plan for ten thousand people" , 19 chief scientists of “Program 973” (National Basic Research Program) (2 for the youth project), 52 distinguished and chair professors of “Chang Jiang Scholars Programme”, 7 national famous teachers, over 1,500 professors and personnel with corresponding senior professional titles and 473 experts who enjoy the special government allowance.

Discipline
CSU has complete disciplinary systems for Non-ferrous Metals, Medicine, Rail Transit, etc., covering Philosophy, Economics, Law, Education, Literature, Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Art, and Military Science was embraced. At present, it sets up 31 schools and institutes with 104 undergraduate majors, 35 primary disciplines authorized for the doctoral degree, 46 primary disciplines authorized for the master’s degree, 2 doctoral degree categories, 23 master's degree categories and 32 post-doctoral research centers.
CSU has 16 disciplines’ ESI ranking Top 1% in the world.
 

Scientific research
Orienting at the major demands of the country, the university drives collaborative innovation and serves the development of the national economy and the modernization of national defense. It has 22 national-level innovation platforms, including 2 national key laboratories, 5 national engineering research centers, 2 national engineering technology research centers, 6 national engineering laboratories, 1 key national defense science and technology laboratory, 1 national engineering and innovation capacity building platform and 3 national clinical medical research centers. Since 2000, the university has won 91 national Three Major Awards for Science and Technology (Award for Natural Sciences, Award for Technological Invention and Award for Scientific and Technological Progress), including 14 first prizes (special prizes) of national science and technology, and 9 projects have been selected into the “Top Ten Progresses in Science and Technology made by Chinese Colleges and Universities”.

International Cooperation
CSU is an open university. It has established long-term cooperation with more than 200 universities and research institutes in over 30 countries and regions, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Russia, and has been extensively engaged in industry-university-research cooperation with a large number of multinational enterprises. International students from more than 100 countries and regions study here.
CSU has co-established two Confucius Institutes with Congolese Diplomatic Academy, Democratic Republic of the Congo and University of Orleans, France respectively.

For more details, please refer to http://www.csu.edu.cn/ .

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