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Xiangtan University (XTU) is a comprehensive university initiated by the great man Mao Zedong, who also inscribed the university's name and entrusted the university administrators to do their utmost to build a successful university. It was founded in 1958 and was recognized as one of the first-batch national comprehensive universities with 15 other universities by the Ministry of Education in 1978. Today, XTU is jointly sponsored by Hunan Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.Covering an area of 92.2 hectares, XTU consists of 22 full-time colleges with 1462 full-time faculty members. Over 70% of the faculty members boast senior professional titles or doctoral degrees and 25% of them have overseas experience on research and study. Two of them are CAE (Chinese Academy of Engineering) academicians. As far as research is concerned, the university ranks 70th among universities of China in terms of research papers on SCI, EI and international citations, and 12th in 2017 in the projects of National Social Science Fund. In addition, it has launched 925 items of industry-university-research cooperation projects. At present, the university’s full-time student enrollment of all majors totals 31,317, including 6,429 doctoral and master’s degree candidates. And it has 8 first level disciplines authorized to offer doctorate degrees in philosophy, law, theoretical economics, mathematics, statistics, materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, and public administration. It also has 30 first level disciplines authorized to offer master’s degrees, 13 professional master’s degree categories and 11 post-doctoral research centers. Of these disciplines, 4 rank among the top 1% of global universities and research institutions on ESI (chemistry, materials science, engineering, and mathematics), 3 are labeled as national key disciplines and 4 as the characteristic disciplines of national defense. Click HERE to find out more.