Xiangtan University (XTU; ) is a provincial public university in

Xiangtan Xiangtan ( zh, s=湘潭) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal P ...

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Hunan, and co-funded by the Hunan Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education of China, and SASTIND. The university is part of the

Double First-Class Construction The World First-Class Universities and First-Class Academic Disciplines Construction (), together known as Double First-Class Construction (), is a higher education development and sponsorship scheme of the Chinese central government, initiated ...

History

In 1958, under the proposal of

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...

, Xiangtan University was founded in Xiangtan County of Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born and grew up. The university ceased to run by the order of the provincial government in 1959 and ultimately recovered the university operation in 1974.

Rankings

General Rankings

As of 2022, the Best Chinese Universities Ranking, also known as the " Shanghai Ranking", placed the university the best in

and 4th in Hunan (the only university outside

Changsha Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...

, the capital of Hunan Province). As of 2023, the

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, also known as ShanghaiRanking, placed Xiangtan University # 801-900th globally. In 2017,

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ranked the university top 800-1000 in the world. In 2021, Xiangtan University was ranked in the top 1000 universities in the world by a number of international rankings including the

, the

, the U.S. News & World Report and the

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(CWUR).

Research and Subject Rankings

The 2024 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Xiangtan University at 575th in the world based on their publications for the period 2019–2022. The ''

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Annual Tables 2023'' by Nature Research ranked Xiangtan University among the top 500 leading universities globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science.

References

External links

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Universities and colleges established in 1958 1958 establishments in China