Airport pick-up
Wuhan University offers airport pick-up for a fee. Please write to us (service@cucas.cn) with your flight info to arrange for pick-up; please write at least a week in advance (not available in July and August).

Fees:
1 - 2 people for 300 RMB
2 - 6 people for 450 RMB (with a normal amount of luggage)

Postal services

There are 4 post offices on the campus of Wuhan University. Foreign students can choose among them for postal services at their conveniences. The addresses are:

Division 1 (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science): Post Office of Maple Garden

Division 2 (Faculty of Engineering): Post Office of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering, opposite Tianyuan Restaurant.

Division 3 (Faculty of Information): opposite College of Electronic Information

Division 4 (Faculty of Medicine): the main gate of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

Students get their registered mails, packages or remittance with valid certificates (Passport or Student ID card) in the post office.

Inform your family or friends of the correct mailing address to ensure that you can receive their letters on time. The envelope is generally written in Chinese or English.

Currency (money) and bank

Currency circulated in China is only Renminbi (abbreviated as RMB), whose basic unit is Yuan and fractional currency is Jiao. RMB has different kinds of money forms of value such as 100 Yuan, 50 Yuan, 20 Yuan, 10 Yuan, 5 Yuan, 2 Yuan, 1 Yuan, 5 Jiao, 2 Jiao and 1 Jiao. Coins have such forms of values as 1 Yuan, 5 Jiao and 1 Jiao.

Bank of China, Wuhan Commercial Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China are located beside the affiliated hospital on the 1st campus (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences). On the 2nd campus (Faculty of Engineering), Bank of China and China Merchants Bank are located opposite Tianyuan Restaurant; beside Ziqiang supermarket there is an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; China Construction Bank is beside campus gate at Chagang. All those banks offer deposit and deposit withdrawal services in RMB and Foreign Currencies of various kinds. Passport and Residence License are needed to open an account. There are 7 currencies.

Bank of China offers services of currency exchange (including traveler’s cheque and etc.) and deposit of RMB and foreign currencies. Passport and Residence License need to be provided for currency exchange. For more details, please consult with banks.

Don't exchange currencies on the streets so as to avoid losses.

Bank of China
Service Phone: 027-68772828
Location: Opposite Tianyuan Restaurant, 2nd campus (Faculty of Engineering), Wuhan University
Working time: 8:30 am - 16:30 pm, Monday to Sunday
Deposit and withdrawal services of GBP, Hongkong dollar, USD, EUR, JPY, CAD, AUD and CHF

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Service phone: 027-68775745
Location: Beside Ziqiang supermarket, 2nd campus (Faculty of Engineering), Wuhan University
Working time: 8:30 am - 16:30 pm, Monday to Sunday.
Deposit and withdrawal services of USD, Hong Kong dollar and JPY.

China Construction Bank
Service Phone: 027-68776489
Location: on the left of the gate of Chagang, 2nd campus (Faculty of Engineering), Wuhan University
Working time: 8:30 am - 16:30 pm, Monday to Sunday.
Services for foreign currencies are not available.

China Merchants Bank
Service phone: 027-68775535
Location: Opposite Tianyuan Restaurant, 2nd campus (Faculty of Engineering), Wuhan University
Working time: 8:30 am - 16:30 pm, Monday to Sunday
Service offer: Only ATM is available

China Merchants Bank (Shuiguohu Branch)
Service Phone: 027-87277572
Location: No.6, Dongyi road, Shuiguohu, WuChang District, Wuhan City
Deposit and withdrawal services of USD, EUR, JPY and Kongkong dollars

24-hour service of ATM is available for all the banks above.

Reservation for train tickets and flight tickets

Students can book train or flight tickets in:

Haiqiao Ticket Agency, Wuhan University

Service Phone: 027-87863486    027-87682776  

Train tickets, flight tickets reservation

Tickets Centre, Wuhan University (1st floor of Labor Union of Wuhan University)

Service Phone: 027-68762001    027-68761715

Train tickets, flight tickets reservation

There are many other tickets service agencies around Wuhan University where tickets can be purchased directly.

Requirements for scholars

For the general scholars studying their specialties in the college or the department, they are required to take at least 6 contact hours' professional courses every week. With the permission of Division of Teaching and Studying Affairs, students can take a maximum of 4 contact hours' courses of other specialties every week if they complete their specialty courses. The course time, the selection method and the scope of course are the same as undergraduate students. For details, please consult with the teachers in charge of teaching and studying affairs in the college or the department.
 
Those who study in College of Foreign Students Education as general scholars should take courses for at least 20 contact hours per week. Those who miss over one third of total contact hours can not obtain the certificates of further study.
 
Advanced scholars and visiting scholars should contact with their supervisors on time and propose the research plan after enrollment. Advanced scholars can choose some courses relevant to his/her specialty if necessary. Those who are sponsored by scholarships should submit a summary report before their departure.

Registration
 
Students should register with student ID card by himself or herself only on prescribed dates every semester. Students must pay for all the tuition fees before the registration. Without the payment invoice, students can't register. The registration is usually completed within the first week of each semester.
 
Undergraduate students and postgraduates register in College of Foreign Students Education first, and then in the colleges or the departments concerned.
 
General scholars, advanced scholars and visiting scholars register in College of Foreign Students Education.
 
Students should ask for leave if they can not register on time. Those who fail to register on time or ask for leave without proper reasons will be considered as absent from class. Those who fail to register over two weeks without proper reasons will be considered as dropping school automatically. And according to the regulation, Wuhan University will cancel his or her status as student.

Course selection

Undergraduates and postgraduates should select the courses according to the curriculum design. Scholars can select the courses freely within the scope the courses offered, but they must follow the academic regulations concerned.
 
The course selection dates are generally the weekend before the first week of each semester. Students should go to select courses in the colleges and the departments with the consultation of the teaching staff. Each course has a two-week audition period. (Graduate School) from the third week. From the 5th week, the university will close the database of the course selection. By then students can make no change on the selected courses. If students quit in the mid of the semester or fail to attend the test, their final record of the course will be ZERO.
 
Undergraduates can only select courses of at most 20 credits each semester including the compulsory courses. Application for more courses requires the authorization of the Dean of the college in charge of teaching and studying affairs or the Director of the department.

Attendance

Wuhan University takes strict records on contact hours, tests and other academic activities on the teaching schedule. Students should ask for leave if they can not attend these activities.
 
Students who do not attend the class without asking for leave or permission of leave will be considered as absent from class. Corresponding punishments will be carried out by the university.
 
Students who miss over one third of the total contact hours of a course will lose the qualification to take the test of it, and the final record of the course will be ZERO.
 
Students can leave Wuhan for survey and information collection with the permission of the supervisor, the college or the department they study in and College of Foreign Students Education.