Universities and colleges in Hubei
Authority control databases
| International | |
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| National | |
湖北工业大学 | |
| Motto | 厚德博学 求实创新 |
|---|---|
Motto in English | for Morals and Knowledge; for Truth and Innovation |
| Type | Public university |
| Established | 1984 |
| President | Liu Defu (刘德富) |
Academic staff | 2,300 |
| Undergraduates | 18,000 |
| Postgraduates | 2,001 |
| Location | |
| Campus | Urban, 1,675 mu (亩) |
| Website | www.hbut.edu.cn |
The Hubei University of Technology (HBUT; 湖北工业大学) is a provincial public university located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The university is affiliated with and sponsored by the Hubei Provincial Government.
The school was established in 1984 as Hubei Institute of Technology, which was formed by merging the former Hubei Institute of Light Industry and the former Hubei Agricultural Machinery College. In 1986, the institution obtained the right to confer master's degrees, changed its name to Hubei University of Technology in 2004, and was approved as a doctoral degree conferring unit in 2017.[1]
In Nature Index 2015 Asia-Pacific, which tracks author contributions to scientific articles, HBUT was ranked 8 in the top 500 Asia Pacific region for Physical Sciences.[2]
