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About Chengdu University

OUR HISTORY

Chengdu University was officially established with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in 1978, but with the history of school running for one hundred years. It is a university jointly established by Sichuan Province and Chengdu City, and a key comprehensive university supported by Chengdu, a national central city. It is the site of the Athletes’ Village for the 2021 Chengdu FIFU World University Games.

Chengdu University boasts a Grade III Level A affiliated general hospital with a history of more than100 years and Sichuan Industrial Institute of Antibiotics, a national antibiotic research and development base. This university has the right to grant bachelor and master’s degrees and has a postdoctoral innovation practice base. It is a university with the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education, and a construction unit for doctoral degrees authorized by Sichuan Province.

CORE VALUES

Over the past 40 years since its establishment, Chengdu University, rooted in Chengdu and based on Sichuan, serving the whole country and keeping pace with the global trend, has been committed to reforms and has been developing rapidly in line with the major development strategies of the country and region, especially Chengdu, so as to achieve its positioning of “being a first-class applied city university in China” by adhering to the motto of “self-love, self-cultivation, self-respect and self-improvement”, the spirit of “seeking truth and being pragmatic, constantly striving for self-improvement”, and the ethos of “cultivating great virtue with elegance, making great achievements with perseverance”.

Chengdu University has implemented three development strategies, namely “talent strategy, distinctiveness strategy and internationalization strategy”, and focuses on the talent training characteristics of “school-city integration, open cooperation and regional application”. Up to now, the university has trained more than 150,000 various talents for national economic and social development.

LEADING ACADEMICS

Focusing on the core qualities of high-caliber and applied talents, science and technology development, and industrial progress, Chengdu University has planned scientifically to set up disciplines and specialties, and has been constantly promoting the integration of disciplines and specialties. At present, there are 10 disciplines and 62 undergraduate specialties in Arts, Literature, Management, Education, Economics, Law, Engineering, Medicine, Science and Agriculture. currently, there are 2 first-class disciplines to confer the master’s degree and 7 categories for professional degrees. The Pharmacy was selected as China’s high-level discipline by the Alumni Association in 2019, ranking the second in the province; A total of 13 specialties, including Tourism Management, were selected as national and provincial first-class majors in the “Double Ten Thousand Plan” in 2019.

TALENTS CULTIVATION

Chengdu University currently has more than 24,000 full-time students (including 1,394 graduate students and 694 international students). It has passed the national engineering education accreditation for the specialties of Food Science and Engineering, Automation, and Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation. The university has one national first-class specialty in the “Double Ten Thousand Plan”, 12 provincial first-class specialties, 3 provincial pilot specialties in the Program for Educating and Training Outstanding Engineers (PETOE), and 4 application-oriented demonstration specialties; 120 MOE university-industry collaborative education programs, 221 undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training programs, 2 high-quality resource sharing courses, 11 high-quality online open courses, 7 innovation and entrepreneurship education demonstration courses, 9 application-oriented demonstration courses and 3 first-class courses.

It has won five first prizes of the Sichuan Teaching Achievement Award in the past two years. Students of the University have won 1,057 awards in disciplinary competition at the national level and 1,578 at the provincial level in the past five years. In the past five years, the University has maintained an average graduate employment rate of 93%, and won the first prize of the National Innovation Achievement Award for Student Accommodation in Universities, setting a model nationwide in terms of student affairs services.

The University houses Zhang Lan Honors College, a top-notch innovative talent training base that attains an enrollment rate of 84% in the past two national graduate entrance examinations, and Entrepreneurship College, which is one of the first Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Courses Experimental Centers in China and has been approved as a national mass entrepreneurship space and selected into the “National Top 100 Characteristic Spaces”. The university ranks 93rd in the list of Chinese Universities with the Strongest Entrepreneurial Competitiveness in 2019.

FACULTY & STAFF

Chengdu University has over 30 doctoral supervisors and nearly 1,500 full-time teachers, including over 200 with senior titles, over 500 with sub-senior titles and nearly 700 with doctoral degrees. Fan Daiming, the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is specially appointed as the honorary president of the university.

There are over 20 faculty members who are winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Changjiang Scholars, national candidates of the New Century National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project, or experts entitled to special government allowance from the State Council, over 50 members who are outstanding scientists of the “Tianfu Ten Thousand Talents Program”, academic and technical leaders in Sichuan, excellent experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan, or experts of the Sichuan “1000 Talents Program”, and over 140 distinguished experts who are Nobel Prize winners, academicians, Changjiang scholars, high-end foreign experts or research fellows (associate research fellows).

GLOBAL PRESENCE

The University will incorporate the “high-level implementation of the first-class international projects” into the “six first-class” development goals in the next five years, and implement the project that one college will be assigned with one world-class discipline (university). It has signed memorandums of cooperation with 124 universities from 35 countries and regions, including 26 world-renowned universities, 10 world-renowned young universities and 37 international sister city universities of Chengdu.

The University is Sichuan’s second university that has established the Confucius Institute overseas; for instance, it has jointly established a Confucius Institute and four Confucius Classrooms together with the University of New Hampshire in the United States, which won the title of “Confucius Institute of the Year” in 2019. The University has enrolled a total of 2,560 international students from 54 countries.

In 2020, there are 694 international students (including 494 degree students, 139 postgraduates, 355 undergraduates, and 200 short-term non-degree students). The University has launched five Sino-foreign cooperative projects at the undergraduate and diploma levels and trained a total of 2,163 students, with 924 students studying in the projects. It has carried out 40 multi-level overseas joint training programs at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels and 42 overseas inter-university exchange programs, with a total of nearly 1,000 students.

The University has set up two overseas alumni societies in Thailand and New Zealand respectively. It has held the international exchange week for five consecutive years and holds about six international conferences every year. It has attracted nearly 600 foreign experts and invited Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand as an Honorary Professor. Thai special expert Chaphiporn Kiatkachatharn was awarded the “Chinese Government’s Friendship Award”, the highest honor granted to foreign experts by the Chinese government. The Sichuan Provincial Research Institute of Thai Studies was included in the list of National and Regional Research Centers Registered in the Ministry of Education. The University has facilitated the establishment of international sister-city relations between Chengdu and Chiang Mai, Thailand and Hamilton, New Zealand. It has taken the lead in establishing the “Chengdu International Sister Cities Higher Education Institutions Alliance” and serves as the Secretariat of the Alliance and the first Executive Chairman Unit.

CAMPUS FACILITIES

The University is located in Chengdu, a central city in China. Chengdu connects the “west triangle” new pattern of higher education in China, with obvious location advantages. The University has a beautiful environment because it is adjacent to the Qinglonghu Wetland Park, which covers an area of more than 30,000 mu; it enjoys the convenient transportation thanks to Chengdu University Station of he Metro Line 4. The University covers a construction area of 738,300 square meters, of which 335,400 square meters are used for teaching, scientific research and administrative offices. The total value of teaching and research equipment amounts up to RMB 256 million. The library covers an area of 48,000 square meters and has more than 5,000 reading seats, with a total collection of 2.2668 million paper books and more than 40,000 electronic periodicals