Chongqing Vocational College of Finance and Economics is a full-time public higher vocational college established by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, registered with the Ministry of Education, supervised by the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Education, fully funded by the government, and has the independent qualification to award associate degrees in general higher education. The school was founded in 1956, initially named Jiangjin Special Zone Commercial Workers School, to carry out cadre education and training; Full time vocational education was established in 1974; In 1983, it was renamed as Chongqing Second Finance and Trade School; In 2007, it was upgraded to a regular higher vocational college and renamed Chongqing Vocational College of Finance and Economics, offering higher vocational education. The school is located in Yongchuan District, the main urban area and western vocational education base of Chongqing. The school covers an area of 710 acres, with complete teaching facilities and equipment. The library has over 1.1 million books. There are currently over 12700 full-time students enrolled. The school has a strong faculty, with 401 master's and doctoral students and 129 associate professors or above. The school currently has 7 secondary colleges, offering 38 full-time general vocational majors, including 3 undergraduate majors, 2 national level backbone majors, 3 municipal level backbone majors, and 2 provincial-level high-level professional groups. A hierarchical professional group development system has been formed, with the "Big Data and Accounting, Marketing" professional group as the leading group in the western region, the "Financial Services and Management, Tourism Management" professional group as the characteristic of Chongqing, and the "Customs and Foreign Trade Services, Computer Application Technology" professional group as the school level focus, featuring "two leading, two distinctive, and two key" aspects.
Chongqing Jianzhu College was founded in 1956, covering an area of more than 900 acres. The main campus is located in the Intelligent Creation Ecological City in the Nan’an District of Chongqing’s main urban area, and the new campus at the Chongqing East Train Station is under construction. The college is the only public full-time higher vocational college specializing in construction in Chongqing, a high-quality higher vocational college in Chongqing, a project construction unit of Chongqing’s “High-level vocational college and majors with Chinese characteristics” ,one of the pilot of 1+X certificate system by the Ministry of Education, a pilot unit for integration of vocational education and bachelor in Chongqing, a pilot unit for the national “5G+ Smart Education” (fifth generation of mobile communication technology) application in 2021, a pilot unit for modern apprenticeships in Chongqing, a high-skilled talent training base in Chongqing, and a demonstration school for smart campus construction in Chongqing. The college boasts a strong faculty. There are over 700 teaching and administrative staff, with 46% being senior title teachers and over 92% being “dual-qualified teachers” (who hold the academic and professional certificates). The student population exceeds 12,300 and there are 47 international students. The college offers a rational structure of specialties, with 52 majors covering nine major categories such as civil engineering and architecture, transportation, equipment manufacturing, electronics and information, finance and commerce, culture and art, resources and environmental safety, public management and services, and journalism and communication. Among them, the road and bridge engineering technology major is the national vocational college demonstration major; The major of construction project management is the backbone of the country; The major of construction engineering technology, road and bridge engineering technology is the key construction major supported by the central government. In addition, there are 7 backbone majors in Chongqing higher vocational colleges and 2 core majors in Chongqing high-level professional group. 8 majors are open to global enrollment, including Construction Engineering Technology, Road and Bridge Engineering Technology, Landscape Design, New Energy Vehicles, Industrial Robots, Construction Engineering Management, E-commerce (Cross-border E-commerce direction), and Business Management.
Chongqing Vocational College of Information Technology was established in 1995 and officially approved in 2001 with the Ministry of Education code 12755. As an important base for the cultivation of urgently needed computer and software technology talents, the college has received numerous honors, including the title of Chongqing Model Software College. The college boasts three modern campuses—Jinlong, Tiancheng, and Baian—covering nearly 1000 acres, with over 600 faculty members, 10 secondary colleges, more than 40 majors, and 18,000 students. With the mission of "helping young people from small towns change their destinies," the college adheres to the principle of service and employment orientation, integrating industry, education, and research. Upholding the educational philosophy that "no one is a complete talent, everyone has talent, everyone can become talented, and everyone can fulfill their potential," the college continuously strengthens its connotation and improves the quality of education. In talent cultivation, the college innovates in school-enterprise cooperation, exploring the "Golden Triangle" model, building a cooperative system among students, enterprises, and the school, and promoting personalized education and precise cultivation. The college has five training bases and 58 training rooms, with stable internship cooperation with more than 230 enterprises, forming a school-enterprise cooperative education system to meet the needs of practical teaching. It has taken the lead in establishing the Chongqing Internet Industry Vocational Education Group, constructing a "highway" for vocational education talent cultivation, with a stable employment rate of over 95% for graduates, and continuously improving employment quality. In terms of internationalization, the college actively responds to the "Belt and Road" initiative by establishing an overseas business department to develop international cooperation and create an international learning platform. It has signed cooperation agreements with universities in several countries on projects such as academic advancement, joint college establishment, and credit recognition. Currently, the college is actively exploring new models of "Internet + Education," innovating in vocational education and talent cultivation, achieving deep school-enterprise cooperation, integrating education with industry, and enhancing the quality of talent cultivation, striving towards the goal of becoming a "world-class vocational university."
Chongqing College of Architecture and Technology is a full-time regular higher education institution under the supervision of the Chongqing The college currently has over 13000 students and more than 600 in-service faculty members. There are 46 ordinary vocational college majors, which are planned and laid out around the Chongqing "33618" modern manufacturing cluster system. Professional clusters such as intelligent construction, equipment manufacturing, new energy vehicle technology, big data technology, health management, and art design are established, and 10 experimental and training centers such as industrial robots are jointly built with enterprises. The college vigorously promotes its international education strategy and has signed cooperation agreements with more than 30 universities in countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, South Korea, Thailand, etc. to carry out international exchanges. It has established the Chongqing Sino German Future Factory Research Institute and successfully launched a Sino foreign cooperative education project with South Korea's Yonhap University.The school has established 2 all English journals, organized more than 10 international conferences, and trained over 100 long - and short-term international students with academic qualifications. The college’s achievements have been widely accepted by the society after nearly 40 years development, and it has developed into a leading higher vocational institution in Chongqing, a high-level higher vocational college with Chinese characteristics and professional construction program in Chongqing, the first batch of satellite park of Grand Creation Valley in Western (Chongqing) In the past three years, the enrollment rate of new students and the employment rate of graduates have consistently ranked among the top universities in Chongqing. Students have participated in various vocational skills competitions, innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, and have received over 220 provincial-level and ministerial level awards, including 15 national level awards; I have received over 700 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels for participating in cultural and sports activities.
Chongqing College of Science and Creation is a full-time private higher vocational college approved and registered by the Ministry of Education. It independently issues national diplomas and is recognized as one of the pilot units of the "Modern Apprenticeship" by the Ministry of Education. Additionally, it is acknowledged among the high-quality higher vocational colleges in Chongqing, the cultivation unit for higher vocational colleges in the city, and a National Advanced Private Education Collective. It considers the cultivation of virtue through education as its fundamental task and adheres to the educational principle of "cultivating skills and talents for long-lasting achievements", as well as the educational philosophy of "educating individuals in both character and knowledge, while advocating for skills and competence". The College has successfully nurtured tens of thousands of technically skilled talents, who are adept in multiple skills yet specialize in one, and are highly sought after by society. This success is attributed to its "3+1" education model, which encourages students to obtain professional, computer, and English level certificates alongside their graduation certificates, and its pursuit of integrating industry with education, as well as fostering cooperation between the college and enterprises. The College covers an area of about 1,000 mu (approximately 417 rai), hosts more than 20,000 students, and has a building area of nearly 400,000 square meters (about 250 rai) with over 1.73 million books of various types. The College boasts complete teaching and living facilities, such as a library, gymnasium, swimming pool, and training center, with the total value of teaching and scientific research equipment exceeding 170 million yuan. The College embraces an open approach to education, actively contributing to the "Belt and Road" Initiative by establishing partnerships with universities and industry enterprises in Germany, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, Cambodia, and other countries. To date, in an effort to comprehensively promote international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education, the College has developed the "1+5" international cooperation model. This model consists of the College as the core, supplemented by a specialty, base, competition, forum, and project, encapsulating the concept of "using the ASEAN International School as the entity for running the College, the major of China-foreign cooperative education as the carrier, the construction of practice and training bases as the means, international skills competition as a breakthrough, international forums as a feature, and a series of international cooperation projects as the lever."
Chongqing Vocational College of Public Transportation is a full-time ordinary higher vocational college funded by Chongqing City Transportation Development & Investment Group Co.,Ltd., a key state-owned enterprise in Chongqing, approved by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government and filed by the Ministry of Education. The school is a transportation vocational college mainly supported by the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, the Chongqing Municipal State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the Chongqing Municipal Transportation Bureau, and it is the only vocational college in the city established by the Chongqing Municipal Government to implement the "railway employment and poverty alleviation" project. The school is a high-quality vocational college in Chongqing, a construction and cultivation unit of high-level vocational schools in Chongqing, and two major groups of the school, namely, urban rail vehicle application technology and automatic railway signal control, have been selected as the construction project of high-level professional groups of vocational education in Chongqing. The school is the construction unit of the national high skilled talents training base, the chairman unit of the Southwest Rail Transit Vocational Education Group, the construction unit of Chongqing's international characteristic project, the member of the China ASEAN Vocational Education Federation, the director unit of the China ASEAN Rail Transit Education and Training Alliance, the vice chairman unit of the China Thailand Vocational Education Alliance, the director unit of the China Cambodia Vocational Education Cooperation Alliance Yangon Intelligent Transport Talent Training Base in Myanmar, Thailand High speed Railway Technology International Student Training Base, the first batch of "Craftsman's College" in Chongqing, the winner of Chongqing May Day Labor Award, the construction unit of Chongqing Modern Industry College, Chongqing Enterprise New "Apprenticeship" Pilot High Vocational Colleges, and the national staff education and training demonstration site. The school is located in Jiangjin Park of Science City in Western China (Chongqing). It has 6 secondary schools and 38 majors, including the Institute of Rail Transit, the Institute of Transport and Trade, the Institute of Intelligent Transport, the Institute of Intelligent Equipment, the Institute of Railway and Architecture, and the Institute of Public Management. It has built 2 national key majors, 1 national production and training base, 3 municipal key majors, and 3 municipal professional teaching resource banks recognized by the Ministry of Education, Three national professional teaching resource library projects were constructed, two "double base" projects of Chongqing higher vocational education were approved, and 13 pilot projects of Chongqing 1+X certificate system were approved. At present, there are more than 12,000 full-time students, and more than 60% of the graduates are working in the transportation industry enterprises and large state-owned enterprises.
