Since the 1960s, the school has been recruiting international studentsand now has nearly 500 international students of all kinds, such as undergraduate, graduate and docterate. In 2007 and 2008, the school cooperated with the University of Memphis and the State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to establish the Confucius Institute. It is one of the earliest colleges and universities in Hubei Province to establish Confucius Institute. In 2013, the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Ministry of Education agreed to entrust the university with the task of preparing Chinese government scholarships for overseas students in China such as Hubei University scholarship and “Belt and Road” scholarship and so on. International Education Department is responsible for the enrollment and relative activities of international students.