Wuhan University is seated at Wuchang Luojia mountain and the campus is famous for its beautiful natural scenery and mountain lake. It's an important part of the East Lake scenery. The campus has an area of 196.44 hectars, within it has Luojia Mountain, Lion Mountain, Cechuan Mountain, Halfside Mountain, Little Tortoise Mountain, Huoshi Mountain etc. The beautiful scenery with trees and flowers gives people great pleasure.

This beautiful natural scenery, together with the ancient style buildings, form an old-timey beautiful, peaceful and pleasant campus and is an ideal place for bringing up thousands of scholars. Various kinds of plants and precious varieties make Wuhan University campus into a natural arboretum. According to a survey, within the Wuhan University campus, there are more than 800 kinds of seed plants, among them a variety of 17 precious species.

The Students' living area is formed into different parts like Cherry Blossom Garden, Plum Garden, Maple Garden, Laurel Garden etc, all of which have their own characteristics and sentiments. The Cherry Blossom Garden, especially, is mainly Japanese cherry blossom flowers, as well as various other kinds of flowers which are extremely colorful. Every year after winter, when the plum flower fade, early cherry blossom flower blooms, after that Japanese cherry blossoms, strait cherry blossoms, late cherry blossoms each blooms. During the time when all the flowers bloom, the cherry blossom garden is like the sea of flowers, thousands of tourists come to see and fulling enjoying the beauty. Many say "To enjoy the cherry blossom in March will only be in Wuhan University campus".

Wuhan University is a key university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China. It is located in Hubei Province's capital Wuhan known as "The thoroughfare leading to nine provinces". The university has rolling physical features with the scenic Luojia Hill in it and the beautiful East Lake by its side, seeming in picturesque disorder. Its campus is wooded and green, and has fragrant flowers everywhere all the year round, the buildings are in special architectural styles, magnificent and mansion-looking. For the above reasons, Wuhan University is widely known as one of the most beautiful universities in the world.

The university dates back to Ziqiang Institute, which was founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.

The university now has 5,000-odd teachers, including 3,000-odd professes and associate professors, 570-odd doctorate supervisors, 4 academicians of chinese Academy of sciences,5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 academicians of the international Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

During the last ten years the university sent abroad thounds of members of different kinds under various programs, invited 300 hundred famous foreign scholars and political personages to be its part-time professors, honorary professors or guest professors, and established relations of academic cooperation and exchanges with 200-odd universities, colleges and scientific research institutions in more then 60 countries and regions.