Wuhan College

Approved by the Ministry of Education in 2003, Wuhan College enrolls students nation-wide and provides full-time university and diploma education to students. The University comprises two schools and five departments, namely School of Accounting and Finance and School of Information and Communications, Department of Business Administration, Department of Artistic Design, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of Law and Department of Liberal Education. In 2015, Wuhan College successfully obtained approval from the Ministry of Education as a private university. In 2016, Wuhan College was the only one granted among all the private universities in Hubei Province to first-tier enrollment in the National College Entrance Examination in some of its unique programs. Wuhan College was founded by Mr. Chen Yidan (Charles Chen), one of the core founders of Tencent as well as Tencent Charity Foundation and Yidan Prize. He founded Wuhan College as a non-profit private university in China and it became the precedent in establishing a charitable foundation for non-profit private universities in China in order to sustainable development. In December 2016, Mr. Chen announced that Hubei Yidan University Development Foundation has achieved the first-round fundraising which marked the first in education philanthropy for private universities in China. Anchor donors from Tencent namely its chairman and CEO Mr. Pony Ma, core founder Mr. Tony Zhang, early-stage founder Mr. Free Wu as well as renowned entrepreneurs who are dedicated to education development have jointly donated to Wuhan College with the chairman of Tencent having donated a 100 million RMB.