The address of the main campus of Wuhan University is No.299 Bayi Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and the address of Donghu Campus is No.29 Luo Yu Road/KLOC-0, Hongshan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province.

Surrounded by East Lake and Luojia Mountain, Wuhan University is known as "the most beautiful university in China" with beautiful campus environment and picturesque scenery. The school covers an area of 5 195 mu with a building area of 2.8 million square meters. Palace-style buildings combining Chinese and Western styles are simple, elegant and magnificent, and 26 early buildings are listed as "national key cultural relics protection units".

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In September 2022, official website showed that there were 3,862 full-time teachers in the school, including 3,086 full-time professors, 6 academicians of China Academy of Sciences 10, 6 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, 3 academicians of Eurasian Academy of Sciences, 9 senior professors of humanities and social sciences, 22 chief scientists of "973 Project" (including major national basic research plan) and 6 experts in the field of "863 Project".

The history of Wuhan University can be traced back to 1893. Governor Zhang Zhidong of Huguang invited the Qing government to establish a self-improvement school. Later, it was named National Wuhan University on 1928, which was the first batch of national universities in modern China. In 2000, Wuhan University merged with Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Hubei Medical University to form the new Wuhan University.