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Central South University (CSU) |
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Central South University (CSU) is a comprehensive and national key university under the direct administration of the
Ministry of Education in China. CSU was established in April, 2000 on the basis of the amalgamation of the three former
individual universities, namely Central South University of Technology, Hunan Medical University and Changsha Railway University.
CSU is situated in Changsha, Hunan. Prof. Li Jian is secretary of the Communist Party of China's CSU Committee, and
Prof.Huang Boyun, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, is president of CSU.
The fields of study at CSU cover 10 branches of learning, namely engineering, science, medicine, management, literature,
law, economics, philosophy, education and history. The university now offers 75 undergraduate programs, 207 master's programs and 128 doctoral programs. It has
18 postdoctoral exchange centers, 17 national key disciplines, 4 national key laboratories, 7 national or ministry-level key training or research centers and 5
national talent training bases and research bases. Among its faculty members, there are 3 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 13 academicians of
Chinese Academy of Engineering, 458 doctoral supervisors, more than 1007 full professors and more than 2152 associate professors. At present, the total number
of full-time students at CSU has reached more than 40,000, including more than 13,000 graduates working for master's and
doctoral degrees, about 33,000 undergraduates, more than 81 overseas students and more than 15,000 students taking courses in degree and non-degree programs of
adult education.
CSU is among the 32 universities first acceded to the "211 Project". CSU
covers an area of 1,990,394 square meters and has a total floor space of 1,627,769 square meters.It also uses advanced teaching and research equipment with a
total value of 1.4 billion yuan (RMB). The university libraries have a collection of 2,930,000 volumes. Information digitalization and automatic management are
applied in these libraries. The university has 3 top affiliated hospitals which enjoy good reputation.
CSU is now struggling for the goal of constructing of a high-level, research oriented comprehensive university
well-known both at home and abroad.
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