Hubei University of Arts and Science
Hubei University of Arts and Science (), formerly known as Xiangyang Normal College, is located in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, in Central China. It is located at 296 County Rd, Xiangcheng Qu, Xiangyang Shi, Hubei Sheng, China (). History. Hubei University of Arts and Science has a history of more than 110 years, and is the predecessor of Xiangyang Normal College founded in 1905. It is located in Xiangyang city, a national historical and cultural city (home town of Zhuge Liang) and the second largest city of Hubei Province. Infrastructure. The university covers an area of  943.9 thousand square meters, with a building area of 526.6 thousand square meters. It has 16 colleges, offering 52 undergraduate majors in the fields of medicine, engineering, industry, trade, management, law, education, literature and the arts. Academic staff. At present 18,000 students are enrolled. The university has a teaching and administrative staff of 1537, with 947 full-time teachers, including 120 professors and 312 associate professors. Library and teaching facilities. The library has 185.32 million copies of paper books and 2830GB electronic books. The university has 50 various types of laboratories, 160 multimedia classrooms and 250 internal and external  training bases. Colleges and schools. Hubei University of Arts and Science has more than 16 colleges, offering 52 undergraduate majors. Medical College. The Medical College of Hubei University of Arts and Science building has a total construction area of 19,000 m. The college is equipped with a basic medicine teaching laboratory, clinical and nursing skill training center and scientific research experiment platform. The college has a staff of 121 people. At present the medical college is offering two undergraduate programs: Affiliated hospitals. Xiangyang City Hospital (affiliated hospital of Hubei College of Arts and Sciences) was founded in 1949. It is  a provincial regional medical center and has a total of construction area of 22 million square meters with 2956 beds. The hospital has a staff of 2952 people. International recognition. Hubei University of Arts and Science is recognized worldwide, as per the list of WHO, IMED and Avicena published in 2007. It is one of the universities approved to teach MBBS to foreign students.