Southwest University

Southwest University, a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, originated from the Chuandong Normal School established in 1906. It is a key university under the "211 Project" and a university under the "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform". It is located in Beibei District, Chongqing City. The campus is located at the foot of Jinyun Mountain, a national scenic spot, and along the beautiful Jialing River. It covers a total area of about 8,000 mu, with nearly 1.8 million square meters of school buildings and a forest coverage rate of 80%. It is a renowned garden-like institution.

The school offers a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. It has 5 national key disciplines, 55 first-level disciplines, 22 postdoctoral research stations, 68 doctoral degrees and 161 master's degrees; One professional doctoral degree, 19 professional master's degrees, and 107 undergraduate programs. The school has nearly 3,000 full-time faculty members, including more than 1,800 professors and associate professors (including researcher series); There are more than 100,000 students of all kinds, including more than 50,000 full-time undergraduates and postgraduates.

The school has developed distinctive features in teacher education and agricultural education. Education, psychology, and agriculture have distinct strengths. Research on the silkworm genome is at the world's leading level, and research in basic psychology, education, and other disciplines is at the domestic leading level. A large number of major scientific research achievements have been created, marked by natural no-tillage methods, silkworm gene banks, Southwest ethnic education and psychology research, and human time cognition research.

The school is strong in scientific research, It has Chongqing Beibei National University Science Park, 1 national Key laboratory, 1 national engineering technology Research Center, 1 provincial and ministerial co-built national key laboratory cultivation base, 10 Ministry of Education or Key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture, 3 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 3 111 Project Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Bases, 2 National Field Scientific observation and experiment stations, 2 scientific observation and experiment stations of the Ministry of Agriculture, 2 field bases of the Ministry of Land and Resources, 1 key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and 13 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of Chongqing. Over the past five years, the number of research projects and funds at the university have increased significantly, with an annual growth rate of more than 30 percent.

Southwest University is an ideal place to study in China. The university attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation and has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with more than 200 universities and research institutions in nearly 30 countries or regions. The university has been recruiting international students since the 1950s. Every year, overseas students from more than 80 countries come to the university to pursue bachelor's, master's, doctoral degrees or further studies. Chongqing Beibei, where the school is located, is an important part of Liangjiang New Area, the third national development and opening-up new area in China and the first inland area. Chongqing is the only municipality directly under the Central Government in central and western China, an important fulcrum and industrial hinterland of the national "Belt and Road Initiative" and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, an economic center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and one of the most competitive international metropolises in the world. The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the Dazu Rock Carvings and the spicy hot pot are world-famous. To attract more international students and to reward those with excellent academic performance, the university is a recipient of the Chinese Government Scholarship, the Confucius Institute Scholarship and the Chongqing Mayor's Scholarship. It also offers its own Southwest University President Scholarship, New Silk Road Scholarship, Southwest University Outstanding International Student Scholarship and Southwest University International College Scholarship.