湖北函授大学是经地方政府和教育主管部门批准，经国家教委备案的一所独立建制、民办公助性质的新型成人高等函授院校。学校坚持“以质量求生存、求信誉，以改革求发展、求完善”的办学指导思想，坚持“面向农村、面向基层、面向乡镇企业”的办学方向和“在职业余，学用结合”? Hubei Correspondence University is approved by the local government and education authorities, the State Board of Education for the record of an independent establishment, private-funded nature of the new adult higher correspondence institutions. Schools adhere to the “quality of survival, seeking credibility, reform and development, seeking perfection,” the guiding ideology of education, adhere to the “rural areas for the grass-roots, for the township enterprises,” the direction of running a school and “spare time, combined with learning?”