Located besides the Lake Dongting at one of the most famous historic cities - Yueyang, Hunan province, the Hunan Institute of Science and Technology (simplified Chinese: 湖南理工学院; traditional Chinese: 湖南理工學院; pinyin: Húnán Lǐgōng Xuéyuàn), is the city's largest higher education institute offering a large variety of undergraduate level programs spanning sciences, engineering, arts, economics, management, law and education.The institute, as of 2005, consists of 18 departments offering 34 undergraduate programs and boasts 102 professors, 315 associate professors, and more than 300 lecturers holding Ph.D and Master's degrees.