HUST High School

The Chinese name was and was renamed to in Feburary 1989. This new name might better reflect its English name which was officially in use at least since 1982. Another English name used was Huazhong Institute of Technology. HUST has a total full time enrollment of about 15000, with about 2000 of them being graduate students in mid-1990's. Its academic departments range from traditional engineering to letters and science, bussiness, and biomedical sciences. On May 26, 2000, HUST merged with Tongji Medical University in Hankou, Wuhan Urban Construction Institute next door, and Wuhan Zhigong Keji Daxue by East Lake, forming the new HUST (Huazong Keji Daxue ). The current president is Professor Fan Mingwu . Past presidents are Professor ZHOU JI , now Minister of Education of China, and Professor YANG Shuzi from Department of Mechanical Engineering I. He was also the first Academian , in HUST. An official introduction of HUST is maintained inside China on HUST campus. While the original motivation of mirroring pages on campus was the slow internet connection speed, these mirrors are now a way of keeping history. Official introduction