Chaohu College, established in 1977, is a state-run and multi-subject provincial institution offering full-time undergraduate courses.

The college is situated in the picturesque Bantang Resort and Vacation District which is well-known for its thermo-spa sanatoria and holiday inns in the east of Chaohu, a city embracing the Chaohu Lake in the central part of Anhui Province. At present its campus covers 86 hectares with a built-up area of 230,000 square metres. There are more than 11400 full-time students, the number of teaching and administrative staff totals nearly 700 faculties,among whom is over 560 teaching staff .In addition, there are 23 professors and about 140 associate professors, 40 with doctoral degree, about 200 with master degree(including postgraduate students) and 4 foreign experts for education, 20 guest professors.

The college has 12 directly-affilited departments such as Chinese, English, Arts, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History ,Physical Education, Pedagogy, Economics and Law, Computer Science&Tchnology and Management .There are 31 full-time undergraduate courses in Chinese language and literature, English, fine arts and design, international trade and economy, inorganic nonmetalic material engineering, electrical engineering and automation, computer science and technology, marketing, applied psychology etc. and 26 college courses on commercial English, tourism management and modern pedagogy and technology etc. There are eight subjects covering literature、science、history、engineering、law、management、economics and pedagogy.

The college has a library with a collection of nearly 600,000 books, a computer reading room, and two publications of “ Journal of Chaohu College” and “ Newspaper of Chaohu College”.

Chaohu College has been developed into a comprehensive institution of higher education with its own characteristics and academic standards which compliments the social and economic development of Chaohu City and Anhui province. The college stresses the basic and central functions of teaching and learning with its key and specific tasks, and has the advantage of being located in a beautiful natural environment with its profound tourist resources and cultural heritage.

The college has been successively awarded “the National Model College in the Construction of Spiritual ” “the National Model College in Social Practice” and “the National Model College in Art Education ” by the Ministry of Education , and “the College of Garden”, “the College of Afforestation”, “ the College of Civilization” and “ the Model College of Civilization” by provincial government as well.

In order to cater to the requirements of internationalization and the development of information society, Chaohu College focuses on the international cooperation and exchange in education. It has adopted an open policy in developing higher education by having sought international cooperation with the universities and colleges in Japan, South Korea, the United States and Australia.