Hubei University of Technology
The Hubei University of Technology (HBUT; 湖北工业大学) is a provincial public university located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The university is affiliated with and sponsored by the Hubei Provincial Government.
The school was established in 1984 as Hubei Institute of Technology, which was formed by merging the former Hubei Institute of Light Industry and the former Hubei Agricultural Machinery College. In 1986, the institution obtained the right to confer master's degrees, changed its name to Hubei University of Technology in 2004, and was approved as a doctoral degree conferring unit in 2017.
Academic performance
In Nature Index 2015 Asia-Pacific, which tracks author contributions to scientific articles, HBUT was ranked 8 in the top 500 Asia Pacific region for Physical Sciences.