Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, founded in 1956, is a national key university with surveying and mapping as its main discipline, including instruments, machinery, electronic information, light industry, civil engineering, economy, business administration, geography, foreign languages and other disciplines. It is one of the first units approved by the State Council to award doctoral and master's degrees, and passed "265438" in September 196. 1993 The former Department of Geodesy and the Department of Engineering Survey of Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping merged to form the College of Geodesy and Engineering. In 2000, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping merged with Wuhan University, Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power and Hubei Medical University to form the new Wuhan University. The School of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology of Wuhan University was established on the basis of the School of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, and 200 1 was renamed the School of Surveying and Mapping and Geographic Information.