South central Minzu University University, or scmzu for short, is located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. It is a university directly under the State Commission for ethnic affairs of the people's Republic of China. It is a qualified university under China's "national minority backbone program", a national model university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, a Planetary Science Alliance of Chinese universities, and a "domestic first-class university construction university" in Hubei Province The State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Ministry of education, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei Provincial People's government and Wuhan Municipal People's Government jointly build universities.The school, formerly known as Central South University for nationalities, was founded in 1951. It was originally named Central South Branch of Central University for nationalities. In November 1952, with the approval of Central South military and political Commission, the Central South Branch of Central University for nationalities was renamed Central South University for nationalities. In 1985, the school enrolled the first batch of postgraduate students. In March 2002, the school officially changed its name to Central South University for nationalities. In 2006, the school was officially approved In 2010, the University achieved the goal of having 56 ethnic students for the first time.As of November 2018, the school covers an area of more than 1550 mu, with a building area of more than 1 million square meters and a collection of more than 6.97 million books. It has more than 27000 full-time doctoral, master's, undergraduate, preparatory and other students of 56 nationalities, including 1392 teachers. It has 21 secondary colleges, 84 undergraduate specialties, 2 doctoral degree authorization points of primary disciplines, 1 postdoctoral research mobile station and 24 academic research centers There are 16 professional master's degree authorization points.