Three Gorges University is a book.

The Three Gorges University is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed by the merger of the former Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges College on May 25th, 2000. Co-built by the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Province, it was selected as the second batch of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education and the second phase of the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions.

The former Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Power (Yichang) was formerly known as Gezhouba Hydropower Engineering College, which was established in 1978. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the State Power Company. 1996 merged with the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power to form a new Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, which became an important part of "Project 2 1 1" to build a university.

The former Hubei Three Gorges College was formed by the merger of Yichang Normal College, Yichang Medical College and Yichang Vocational College on 1996.

In June 2022, the official website of the school showed that the school covers an area of more than 3,000 mu, with a total construction area of 6,543,800+4,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 806 million yuan, and there are more than 2.95 million paper books in the library.

There are 22 colleges and 80 undergraduate majors; There are 4 first-class doctoral programs, 1 professional doctoral program, 27 first-class master programs and 22 master degree categories; Full-time teachers 1686, full-time undergraduates 23964, doctoral and master students 7552.