Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) is one of the leading Chinese Universities under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education and one of the universities in the country’s construction plan of world-class universities and first-class disciplines. The university began to recruit international students in 1952. WUT is also one of the universities appointed to receive international students under the authority of Chinese Government Scholarship Program. In 2018, over 1,700 international students from over 130 countries studied in the University.

In the past 70 years, WUT has fostered over 500,000 students, maintaining itself the largest scale university for nurturing talents. WUT has established cooperative relations for students exchange and scientific research with more than 190 foreign universities and research institutions from all over the world and invited over 300 international famous scholars to be its strategic scientists, guest professors or honorary professors. More than 230 Joint Research Centers with state and local governments, international institutions and enterprises have been established by the university. From 2010, WUT has obtained 14 National Science and Technology Awards, ranking in the forefront of Chinese higher education institutions.

In 2018, the university was listed in Times Higher education World University Rankings, QS Asia University Rankings, U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings and Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) was founded on May 27th, 2000 from the former Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan Transportation University and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University. Each of these three universities has its own uniquely important history. 

The former Wuhan University of Technology dated back from three colleges, namely, Zhongnan Construction Engineering College in 1952, Shenyang Building Materials Industry College in 1958 and Beijing Institute of Building Engineering in 1958. Then in 1971, Beijing Institute of Building Engineering merged with Wuhan Construction Engineering School and thus formed Hubei Construction Industry College. Later in 1978, the college was awarded the title as national key university and then changed its name to Wuhan Institute of Building Materials. In 1985, the college changed its name to Wuhan University of Technology, which later passed the evaluation of 'State 211 Project' in 1996 and entered into the direct administration of the Ministry of Education in 1998 before its merge with the other two universities in May 2000.

The former Wuhan Transportation University mainly originated from National Maritime Vocational School in 1946.Then in 1949, the college changed its name to Wuhan Transportation College. in 1952, the college changed its name to Wuhan River Transportation College. Later in 1957, the college changed its name to Wuhan University of  Water Transportation Engineering which then received the discipline adjustment by the Ministry of Transportation in 1963. More importantly, the college merged with Wuhan River Transportation School and thus got its name as Wuhan University of  Water Transportation Engineering. Later in 1993, the college was officially named as Wuhan Transportation University by the Ministry of Transportation before its merge with the other two universities in May 2000. 

The former Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University came from the original Wuhan Institute of Technology which was founded in 1958. In 1959, it was merged into Hubei Chemical Engineering College. Then in 1961, the college merged with the other two colleges, respectively, Wuhan Institute of Technology and Hubei Industry College and thus named itself Wuhan Institute of Technology. During the next fifteen years, the Institute underwent great changes and was forced to change its name due to China's Cultural Revolution. Then in 1979, the Institute regained its name as Wuhan Institute of Technology. Later from 1983 to 1994, the Institute showed its rapid development in many aspects. Then in 1995, the Institute changed its name to Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University. What was more, in 1999, Hubei No.1 Mechanical Industry School and Hubei Energy Economy School were merged into the university. Later in May 2000, it merged with the other two universities mentioned in the beginning and thus formed Wuhan University of Technology.