Chongqing University

Chongqing University
重庆大学
Motto 耐劳苦, 尚俭朴, 勤学业, 爱国家[1]
Motto in English
 Endure Toil, Cherish Thrift, Work Hard and Love the Country[2]
Type National Public
Established 1929
President Dr. Zhou, Xuhong
Academic staff
 5200
Students 50 000
Undergraduates 28 000
Postgraduates 21 000
Location Chongqing,  China
Campus Three campuses (A, B, C) downtown, one campus (D) in suburbs, 178 hectares
Colors BlueRed
Website http://international.cqu.edu.cn

Chongqing University (simplified Chinese: 重庆大学; traditional Chinese: 重慶大學; pinyin: Chóngqìng Dàxué, also abbreviated as CQU) is a key national university located in Chongqing, China, and a member of the "Excellence League". Chongqing University is also one of the "Project 211 and Project 985” universities with full support in the construction and development from the central government and the Chongqing Municipal Government. Among its various departments, Chongqing University is especially highly ranked in the Built Environment, Engineering, Technology, and Business disciplines.[3]

History

Chongqing University was founded in 1929 in Chongqingcity by General Liu Xiang and became a national comprehensive university consisting of six colleges in liberal arts,science, engineering, law, and medicine in 1942.


In 1952, the nationwide restructuring of higher education turned Chongqing University into an engineering-orientated multi-disciplinary university under the State Ministry of Education. In 1960, Chongqing University was designated as one of the first key national universities. Since the implementation of reform and opening-up policy in China, Chongqing University has stressed the development of disciplines like humanities, business management, art, sports education, which has further sped up the process of developing itself into a comprehensive institution of higher learning.

Present

Chongqing University has 28 Schools plus the graduate school, the City College of Science and Technology, the College of Continuing Education, and the College of Networking Education. The University now has a total enrollment of 50,000 students, of which 20,000 are master's and doctoral students, and 30,000 undergraduate students. The university owns 24 mobile workstations for postdoctoral study, 133 doctoral programs, 256 master programs, 18 professional master's degree programs, namely MBA, EMBA,MPA, master of engineering, and 89 bachelor's degree programs in 8 academic categories of science,engineering, liberal arts, conomics, management, law, agriculture and education.[3]

Currently, the university has a total number of 5,400 faculty and staff members, among which about 2700 are full-time teachers, 3 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and 12 contracted members from other institutions, 6 members of the Subject Appraisal Team of the Degree Committee under the State Council, 4 chief scientists of the National 973 Project,4 the state-level middle-aged or young experts with distinguished contribution, 500 doctorate supervisors, 1,700 full professors and associate professors. Chongqing University covers a total area of 5,500 mu (about 178 hectares), with 1.60 million square meters of construction space. In 2001, Chongqing University Technology Park came into being,as one of the 22 state-level university technology parks in China.

Academics

Academic organisation


Faculty of the Built Environment
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Information Science and Technology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences


Other

Teaching and research

Chongqing University is in possession of 17 state key subjects and 14 key subjects under the state "211 Project", 38 provincial or ministerial key subjects. The university sets up 14 specially appointed professor posts under the "Yangtze River Scholar Award Program". It has established 3 national teaching bases for fundamental courses and a national quality education base for college students, 9 national key labs and ministerial key labs, 71 provincial key labs, and 130 labs of different specialties. Moreover, Chongqing University has constructed the distance education center, multi-media classrooms of large scale and interactive audio-visual classrooms, labs or training centers in cooperation with world famous enterprises such as Siemens, Microsoft, IBM, Rockwell, Omron, etc. The university has a national key publishing house, a national first-class architectural designing institute, and a first-class institute for planning and design.

In recent years, the university has undertaken over 100 national key scientific projects of different types, and won 13 National Awards for Invention, 40 Awards for Scientific and Technological Advancement, 4 Awards for Natural Science, 968 ministerial and provincial awards, 283 Awards for Teaching Achievement.

Rankings

Top ranked disciplines in China

National Rank Major
4 Mining Engineering
4 Urban Planning
5 Industrial Engineering
5 Electrical Engineering
5 Instrumentation Science and Technology
6 Bio Medical Engineering
6 Metallurgical Engineering
7 Landscape Architecture
8 Architecture
8 Mechanical Engineering
10 Civil Engineering
11 Safety Science and Engineering
11 Software Engineering
13 Theater and Film Art
14 Topography
16 Law
17 Business Management
18 Public Management
18 Power Engineering
19 Chemical Engineering
19 Management Science and Engineering
20 Computer Science and Technology

Library collections

The university library is well equipped with modern facilities of large scale, with a collection of 3.90 million volumes, 6000 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, and 2.0 million volumes of E-books. In addition to 5 electronic reading rooms with 65000 kinds of e-books and journals, the China Education Research Network (CERNET) Chongqing Central Node is set up in the library.

Key laboratories

State Key Laboratories(Engineering Centers)
Key Laboratories of the Ministry of Education of China
Discipline Innovation Bases for Higher
Provincial Key Laboratories

Campus

Chongqing University covers a total area of over 3.65 square kilometres, consisting of four campuses. With green mountains surrounded and the Jialing River flowing by, the four campuses are set amidst delightful sceneries and awarded the title of “Garden University” by Chongqing Municipality.

Administrative offices

Outreach and Cooperation

Chongqing University attaches great importance to international academic exchange and cooperation.

It has established inter-university exchange links with over 100 institutions of higher education in 20 countries such as the USA, England, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Russia, etc.

Alumni

The following are notable:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "校训". Chongqing University. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ "About the university". Chongqing University. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Archived January 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

Coordinates: 29°34′13″N 106°28′29″E / 29.570351°N 106.474815°E / 29.570351; 106.474815

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