Recently, Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, in short of ARWU, officially released the 2023 "Soft Science World Top Academic Subjects Ranking". The discipline of textile science and engineering of Wuhan Textile University ranks third in the world and ranks among the top 10 world-class disciplines. Wuhan Textile University is the only university governed by Hubei People's Government that has been selected as one of the top 10 world-class academic subject. 4 academic subject of WTU such as Textile science and engineering, nanoscience and technology, materials science and engineering, and chemical engineering are all in the rank list.

Textile Science and Engineering of Wuhan Textile University is the key academic subject in Hubei Province, which became the core academic subject of Hubei Province's "modern textile Technology" academic subject group in 2015. It was selected as a "Domestic first-class academic subject” in Hubei Province in 2018, and was identified as a first-class academic subject in provincial universities in 2022. Its supporting academic subjects of material science, chemistry and engineering rank among the top 1% of ESI worldwide. The Professors and Scholars working in this academic subject has undertaken a large number of major scientific research projects such as the National Key research and development Program called 973 & 863, and won 1 first prize of National Science and Technology Progress (2009), 2 second prize of National technology invention (2008, 2009), 1 second prize of National science and technology Progress (2019), and a large number of science and technology awards in national level. In recent years, it has continuously broken through the high technology such as the fabric flag of "Chang 'e-5" lunar, the High Temperature Resistant Elastic Sealing Device of "Tianwen 1" probe, special connection rope of dual satellite, and bionic net of submarine capture .