School Badge

About Chengdu Sport University

Founded in 1942, Chengdu Sport University (CDSU) is the sports college with the longest history in China. CDSU is located in the city proper of Chengdu, Sichuan, adjacent to the Wuhou Temple, a world-famous historical attraction, covering a total area of 480,000 square meters, with a beautiful environment and picturesque scenery. After nearly 80 years of development, CDSU has now become a nationally renowned and distinctive sports college. At present, CDSU is taking the opportunity of the construction of a national central city in Chengdu to contribute to the building of a famous international competition city, a regional sports industry hub, and a world-class sports rehabilitation center, and is going all out to promote the construction of a new campus. In the near future, a modern, beautiful, open and intelligent new campus that covers an area of more than 1,500 mu (100 hectares) and integrates physical education, sports industry and sports social services will take shape on the bank of Sancha Lake, the “Pearl of Tianfu”.

In recent years, with the goal of building a world-class sports university, CDSU has been focusing on the school-running orientation of “building a world-class characteristic sports university with multi-disciplinary integration and applied research”. CDSU features a sport-oriented school-running system with sport-medicine combination and sport-literature integration, and a discipline pattern with “physical education as the mainstay, sports medicine as the focus, and multi-disciplinary coordinated development as the supplement”.

CDSU is a doctoral degree authorization unit, and has been approved as a national post-doctoral research center, a post-doctoral scientific research station, and a post-doctoral innovation practice base in Sichuan. CDSU has a first-level discipline authorized to grant doctoral degrees (physical education), 4 first-level disciplines authorized to grant master’s degrees (physical education, clinical medicine, integrated Chinese and western medicine, journalism and communication), 14 second-level disciplines authorized to grant master’s degrees, and 4 disciplines authorized to offer professional master’s degrees (physical education, traditional Chinese medicine, journalism and communication, art). In 2017, in the 4th round of national discipline evaluation, CDSU’s physical education was classified as A-level, ranking fourth in the country and first in western China. CDSU’s physical education and sports medicine are supported by the province to be included in the “First-Class Universities and First-Class Disciplines Program”. CDSU now has 22 undergraduate majors, spanning 7 disciplines including education, medicine, literature, management, economics, art, and history. Among them, physical education, sports training, martial arts and traditional national sports, human movement science, sports rehabilitation and tourism management are approved as national first-class undergraduate majors.

CDSU has always prioritized talent training. CDSU currently has more than 11,000 students, including more than 9,600 undergraduates and more than 1,500 postgraduates. Since its establishment, CDSU has cultivated nearly 60,000 students and made positive contributions to regional sports and education. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the employment rate of our graduates was higher than the provincial average. Since 2009, CDSU has won more than 640 gold medals, 480 silver medals, and 450 bronze medals in the Olympic Games, world championships, World University Games, Asian Games, Asian championships, national games, national tournaments and championships, and national sports college competitions.

Under the strategy of building a powerhouse of talent, CDSU has cultivated a large number of outstanding teachers, such as the former chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association, well-known sports history experts, and the former convener of the Physical Education Discipline Appraisal Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. CDSU currently has more than 1,300 faculty members, including more than 600 full-time teachers and more than 300 teachers with high-grade professional titles. It has a total of 120 experts, including experts from the discipline evaluation group of the National Social Science Fund of China, academic and technical heads from the General Administration of Sports of China, experts receiving the State Council’s special government allowance, academic and technical heads in Sichuan, and experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan, 146 international and national-level referees, and 64 elite athletes.

Focusing on the national strategy and the needs of regional economic development, and relying on the advantages of disciplines and specialties, CDSU has made a number of landmark achievements. In the past five years, CDSU has been approved for implementing more than 50 national fund projects and 2 national key research and development projects. From 2021 to 2022, CDSU has ranked first in the country in the number of physical education projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China for two consecutive years. In 2021, CDSU has made a breakthrough in the general programs of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and ranked first in China in the number of physical education programs. The academic journal “Journal of Chengdu Sport University” edited and published by CDSU is a Chinese core journal, a characteristic science and technology journal of Chinese universities, a CSSCI source journal, and RCCSE China’s core academic journal. In 2019, CDSU founded China’s first English sports medicine journal “Sports Medicine and Health Science”, which was included in Scopus, DOAJ, Embase, CrossRef, CNKI and other databases. CDSU also has the only university museum with the theme of Chinese sports history that integrates collection, display, popular science research and cultural inheritance. Since 2008, CDSU has implemented nearly 100 service projects of the General Administration of Sport of China, and provided scientific and technological research and medical services for 24 teams preparing for the Olympic Games. At the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, with the medical technology support of CDSU, Chinese delegation won 39 medals (17 gold medals including the first gold) in shooting, gymnastics, diving, badminton and other events.

CDSU insists on improving the level of school running through opening up, and constantly strengthens and deepens foreign exchanges and cooperation. CDSU is a higher education institution approved by the Ministry of Education to enroll overseas Chinese, students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. CDSU has established exchange and cooperation relations with more than 30 universities and research institutions in 20 countries and regions including the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and has established the “2+2”, “3+1” and “3+1+1” joint training systems for bachelor’s and master’s degree students with many world-renowned universities.