South-Central Minzu University

On South Lake of Wuhan, Hubei Province lies South-Central University for Nationalities, a comprehensive university founded in 1951 for Chinese ethnic minority people with the State Committee of National Affairs of P.R. China as its sponsor.

The university consists of the colleges of Law, Literature, Journalism and Communication, Fine Arts, Ethnology and Sociology, Foreign Languages, Economics, Management, Public Policy and Management, Computer Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Electronics and Information Engineering, Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sports Science and Physical Education, Music and Dance, International Education etc.. In addition, the university has 48 institutions or centers respectively for the researches of Ethnology, Higher Education for Ethnic Minority Cultures, Applied Chemistry, Plasma Physics and Biomedical Technology.

At present, SCUN provides 79 undergraduates programs in 10 disciplines, has 1 professional Master’s Degree programs and 6 Doctor Programs for postgraduates in 12 disciplines. The university possesses 23 excellent courses at national and provincial levels, 14 key disciplines and 27 research centers at provincial levels. SCUN has a full-time enrollment of some 26,000 students from 56 ethnic groups.

SCUN has quickened its pace of opening up to the outside and has established intercollegiate relationship with dozens of universities respectively in USA, Australia, Canada, Russia, Germany, South Korea, Japan and France every year some teachers are sent abroad as lecturers or trainees and foreign professors and experts are invited to work on the campus as well. In order to enhance the communication with those universities, SCUN also selects top undergraduates and postgraduates to pay a short-term visit or conduct long-term studies at the foresaid universities.