Central South University

Central South University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It was formed in 2000 by the merger of the former Hunan Medical University, Changsha Railway University, and Central South University of Technology, and is located by the Yuelu Mountain in Changsha, Hunan Province. As a university under the "Project 211", "Project 985", and the second round of "Double First-Class" construction, it covers 11 major disciplines including philosophy, economics, science, engineering, and medicine, and has 5 national "Double First-Class" construction disciplines: mathematics, materials science and engineering, metallurgical engineering, mining engineering, and transportation engineering; 19 disciplines have entered the top 1% of ESI globally, among which materials science and engineering have entered the top 0.01% globally. The university has a strong faculty, forming a high-level talent cluster led by 15 academicians, and in 2025, 20 person-times were selected as "Highly Cited Researchers" globally. Scientific research achievements are abundant. Since 2000, it has won 119 awards in the three major national science and technology awards, 10 projects have been selected as "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Chinese Universities", and it has been selected as one of the first batch of national intellectual property demonstration universities; in the 2025 "ShanghaiRanking* Discipline Ranking", 42 disciplines were listed, and the mining engineering discipline ranked first in the world*. The university adheres to the motto of "Integrating Knowledge with Action, Applying Learning to Practice", based in Hunan, facing the whole country, and looking to the world, promoting high-quality connotative development, and striving to build a distinctive* university.