Central South University (CSU) is located in Changsha, a historic and cultural city in Hunan province, central south of the People's Republic of China. CSU was established in April 2000 on the basis of the amalgamation of the three former individual universities, namely Central South University of Technology (founded in 1952), Hunan Medical University (founded in 1914 as Hsiang-ya Medical College; currently named Xiangya School of Medicine) and Changsha Railway University (founded in 1953).i CSU is a comprehensive research university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. CSU is among the first universities of key constructions of the Project 211 and the Project 985 with strength in engineering and medical science. CSU has 29 Colleges and institutes: and 2 national key laboratories: According to the newest data in Chinese University Ranking, CSU ranks 15th out of 751 universities in China. CSU has full-time college students 33800, graduate students 15796, overseas students 408. The faculty-student ratio is about 1:8.