Chongqing University Of Arts And Sciences

（重庆文理学院）

Basic information

City: Chongqing
Founded in: 2001
Type: Public University
Number of total students: 20500
Number of international students: 50
Number of faculty: 580

Qiansimen Jialing River Bridge & Hongyadong night view.
Image by Shio Yang.

About Chongqing

Chongqing is a sprawling municipality at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in southwestern China. In the city center, the large, domed Great Hall of the People complex stands above pedestrianized People's Square. On the other side of the square, the Three Gorges Museum features artifacts from the construction of the Three Gorges Dam as well as ancient art. ― Google

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About Chongqing University Of Arts And Sciences

Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences (CUAS) is a full-time comprehensive institution of higher education under the leadership of Chongqing Municipal Government of P.R. China. It is in Yongchuan district with two campuses: Honghe and Xinghu. On campus are studying nearly 20,000 undergraduates, more than 50 foreign students and 500 joint-training postgraduates. In 2021, CUAS was officially approved as a master’s degree granting unit, along with 3 master’s degree authorization stations for master’s degree in Machinery, Materials and Chemical Engineering, and Agriculture.

Adhering to the ideas of “developing applied disciplines, conducting applied research, nurturing applied talents and developing high-level application-oriented university”, through the 46 years, CUAS has developed into a well-known University in the western China. According to Shanghai Ranking and China University Alumni Ranking (CUAA), CUAS is ranked among the Top10 in Chongqing and the Top 400 in China (281st).

CUAS is boasted with excellent faculties. Among them, there are more than 180 professors and 400 associate professors, 370 teachers with doctoral degree, 130 part-time PhD or master supervisors, 20 foreign teachers, 300 visiting or part-time professors. Meanwhile, 8 Innovation teams (groups) of Chongqing, 7 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team of Chongqing and 1 Workstation for postdoctoral are located on campus.

CUAS consists of 19 schools and offers 66 undergraduate majors, covering 10 kinds of discipline such as Literature, Economic, Agriculture, Science, Engineering, Management, Arts, Education, Law etc. It is boated with 2 national first-class courses, 7 municipal key disciplines, 10 municipal specialized majors, 48 municipal-level first-class courses (online open courses), and 2 majors were approved by the Ministry of Education for the Sino-foreign cooperative undergraduate education program.

CUAS has closely combines the industrial development needs of Chongqing, focusing on new materials, big data, artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, chemical and pharmaceutical, modern agriculture, ecological environment and other fields. CUAS focusing on building New Materials Technology Research Institute, International Research Institute of Innovative Targeted Drugs, Special Plant Research Institute, Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Research Institute and other new research institutes. At present, CUAS is boasted with 3 national-level research platforms, 27 municipal-level scientific research platforms.

In the past five years, over 80 national projects in CUAS are sponsored by the National Natural Science Fund or National Social Science Fund. Some of the research findings have been published in Nature, Cell and other world top Journals and more than 1800 academic articles have been collected by SCI and SSCI. Meanwhile, 45 research projects have been granted with municipal-level or higher Award for scientific/technological Achievements, 900 patents have been granted to the CUAS faculty involved.

CUAS attaches great importance to developing international cooperation and exchange. It has successively established sister relationships with more than 30 universities from over 20 countries such as United States, Russia, Italy, Malaysia etc. At present, the focus is on holding Sino-foreign Cooperative Education Projects with the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the United States and Kuzbass State Technical University in Russia, and “2+2” undergraduate and master joint training programs with Tomsk Polytechnic University and Tomsk State University in Russia, and joint training programs with the University of Perugia in Italy. It also cooperating with the University College Sedaya to organize the undergraduate and master’s degree programs. The “China-Russia Science and Education Cooperation and Exchange Platform” was approved as a special project of Chongqing Internationalization. In recent years, more than 10 students have been granted with the financial support from the China Scholarship Council to study abroad every year.

More than forty years’ journey, with adherence to the motto “to nurture with arts and sciences, to develop with virtues and professions”, to implement the development strategy of “innovation and openness, standing upright”, comprehensively promote the development of application-oriented in-depth transformation, and strive to create CUAS into a regional, international, high-level application-oriented University.

Advantages

International Studies School of the University of Arts and Sciences was planned to be built in 2008 and formally established in 2010. In the past eight years since its establishment, through the unceasing efforts and innovation of the school staff and students, the school has made great achievemnts in many aspects such as internationalcooperation and exchange, the scale of inroolment of international students, study abroad service,international studetns cultivation and innovative management.

In recent years, International Studies School has established the education cooperation with more than ten foreign universities, such as:Russia Ivanovo Chemical University, Russian International Children School,Auburn University of USA, Taylor University of Malaysia, Art Institute of Sabah in Malaysia, Italian Perugia University, Poland Administration University, Indonesia Surabaya Technology and Business School, Thailand Ubon Ratchathani Royal University and Hanoi University in Vietnam. We also developed many projects in exchanging teachers and students, “2+2 College to University Program”, “3+1+1 University to Master Program”and internship program between Thailand and China.

The enrollment of new foreign students reached a high level this year. Until the October this year, we has enrolled more than 90 foreign students, with total number more than 140 students.In recent 8 years, 200 foreign students are cultivated here. These students were from more than 20 countries,such as the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Kazakhstan, Togo, Kenya and etc, with more than 8 majors in business Chinese, international education, Chinese language and literature, Chinese Radio and television director, business management, tourism management, art design and physical education.

In May 2015, Study Abroad Service Center of Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences was established. By the end of 2015, together with Russian Language and Culture Center established earlier, this center has carried out language training for dozens of Chinese students studying abroad and offered studying abroad services for Chinese students to Russia, the United States, Malaysia and other countries.

Since 2012, we already trained 35 undergraduates, 59 people for Chinese training, and more than 100 people for short-term exchanging. There are 3 foreign students successfully admitted to the Wuhan University, Jilin University, Southwestern University and etc. Many students participate in the “Chinese Bridge Competition”and culture and Art Festival in Chongqing to get good results,showing international education strength in our school.

In recent years, our school students continue to expand the scale. In order to help foreign students to improve their Chinese level and professional level, we gradually implement the “double tutor system” and “double One to One system”and “four class management mode” for foreign students. It is proved by practice that this management system is effective.

In January 2016, International Studies School and Cultural Heritage College merged and the strength doubled. As a result, International Studies School/Cultural Heritage College has become one of the the youngest vibrant colleges in Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences with more than 20 professors, associate professors, PhDs, masters and over 100 students. We firmly hold the belief that as long as we work hard and forge ahead with determination, International Studies School of Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences will become one of the most distinctive international schools in Chongqing and even in southwestern region of China.

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