Chongqing is accelerating to promote connotative development of higher education. Currently there are 78 higher institutions, including 28 universities, with over 60,000 full-time teachers and nearly 1.4 million students enrolled. At present, Chongqing has 44 higher institutions offering programs for international students. Let’s look for which university or college you would like to pursue your study in Chongqing.
Chongqing City Management College is a state-owned higher education institution supported by Chongqing Municipal People's Government and jointly built by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Chongqing Municipal People's Government. The college won various awards and titles such as a national model backbone of high quality vocational college, a member of the High-level and Professional Construction Programme with Chinese Characteristics", a national leading organisation of vocational education, a national-level leading institution for graduates employability, an outstanding contributor to skill cultivation, a well-managed campus, the first batch of municipal model vocational college in Chongqing, a pilot college of teaching quality review and improvement in vocational institutions of the Ministry of Education, and a high quality vocational college in Chongqing. Founded in 1984 as Chongqing Civil Affairs School of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the school was upgraded to Chongqing Social Work Vocational College in March 2001 and renamed Chongqing City Management College in March 2006 covering an area of 1800 mu, has 11 secondary school, 48 majors and nearly 15,000 students. After nearly 40 years of construction, the college has focused on "based on civil affairs, service to the local community, characteristic development" and witnessed the expansion of operations, improvement of the learning environment, development of programmes and improvement in teaching quality.
Chongqing Vocational Institute of Engineering (CQVIE) is a full-time higher vocational school established by Chongqing Municipal People’s Government and supervised by Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. Founded in 1951, the school is a higher education, and National Demonstrative High-level and High-quality Vocational Institute with Chinese Characteristics and Specialized Construction Plan. The institute has 12 secondary faculties and departments, offering 57 higher vocational specialties. With more than 16,000 full-time students, CQVIE still accepts more than 200 students for international education and training and offers an average of more than 40,000 persons continuing education and training per year. CQVIE boasts one teaching team at national level, three vocational education teachers' innovation teams at national level, eight national key programs, six national core programs, two national bases for cultivating "dual-qualified" teachers, two national production-oriented training bases, eight training bases funded by the central government, one national collaborative innovation center and one national special training base for "Online Learning Space for Everyone". There are also four national online quality vocational education courses and one national professional teaching resource library for vocational education, with 4 national teaching achievement awards. The library of CQVIE houses over 1.2 million volumes of print books, nearly 1.4 million electronic books, and over 40,000 electronic journals. Additionally, it has established a rich and sharing cloud platform with a database of vocational education resources. CQVIE insists on opening up to the outside world, and upholds the international cooperation talent cultivation concept of “mutual understanding of civilizations, tripartite construction, and multi-dimensional dual cultivation”. Since 2016, the university has trained nearly 1,500 long-term and short-term international students and carried out technical services with more than 20 countries along the “Belt and Road”, including Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tanzania, etc.
Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College is a full-time public higher education institution organized by the Chongqing Municipal Government and supervised by the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. The college was founded in 1936 and was formed by the merger of Chongqing Wanxian Agricultural School and Chongqing Three Gorges Agricultural Machinery School in 2003. Adhering to the characteristics of modern agricultural education, the college is one of the first batch of high-level professional group construction units with Chinese characteristics, a high-quality school for cultivating talents in rural revitalization nationwide, one of the top 50 typical employment experiences for graduates in China, and one of the first batch of "1+X" certificate system pilot universities by the Ministry of Education Nearly 300 projects, including the first batch of construction units of "French Schneider Electric Green and Low Carbon Industry Education Integration Project" of the Ministry of Education, the Chinese intensive training base of the 46th WorldSkills horticulture project, the pilot unit of industry education integration professional cooperation construction of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee, and the project establishment and construction units of Chongqing High Water Level Vocational School. The college has accumulated over 100000 high-quality technical and skilled talents for society. The college is located in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, covering an area of more than 800 mu, and has two campuses, Longbao and Salon. There are 9 secondary colleges, offering 45 majors, and over 13800 students on campus. We have established 1 national high-level professional group, 3 municipal high-level professional groups, 4 national backbone majors, 7 municipal backbone majors, 3 modern apprenticeship pilot majors of the Ministry of Education, and 4 municipal demonstration majors. The degree of compatibility between professional settings and national strategies and Chongqing's pillar industries reaches 98.5%. The college's educational and teaching reform has achieved significant results, winning 8 national and municipal teaching achievement awards, 12 national "13th Five Year" and "14th Five Year" planning textbooks, 1 national high-quality online open course, 2 "Famous Teachers and Famous Courses" provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for rural revitalization, 6 municipal high-quality online open courses, and 8 municipal first-class courses. Participated in the teacher teaching ability competition and won 6 national awards. Since 2012, I have participated in the National Vocational College Skills Competition and have won a total of 15 first prizes, 46 second prizes, and 31 third prizes. The college currently has over 590 faculty and employees, with over 150 high-level talents with associate or higher professional titles and doctoral degrees. The proportion of "double qualified" teachers is over 75%. There are more than 30 high-level talents including national agricultural vocational education teaching masters, national technical experts, and national light industry technical experts. The college has strong scientific research capabilities, has established 290 research projects, published 3132 academic papers such as SCI and EI, and granted 267 patents and software works. The college is deepening the integration of industry and education, with 55 national and municipal level industry and education integration training bases, 192 on campus training rooms, and 260 off campus job internship bases. Led the establishment of more than 30 international and domestic platforms, including the China Sri Lanka Rural Revitalization College, the China Pig Industry Vocational Education Alliance, and the Chengdu Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle Modern Agriculture Vocational Education Alliance. The college has extensively carried out international exchanges, successively carried out 110 international cooperation with more than 30 universities and institutions in Britain, France and other countries and regions, established the "Overseas Pig Industry Training College", 7 courses were internationally certified and promoted, and won 25 the Belt and Road and BRICS Vocational Skills Competition Awards. The college adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and actively integrates into the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, the construction of high-level professional groups with Chinese characteristics, and the construction of high-quality schools for national rural revitalization talents training , actively adapt to the new trend of higher education development, and strive to contribute to the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and the economic and social development of Chongqing.
Chongqing Industrial & Trade Polytechnic (CQITP) is a full-time general higher vocational school held by the people's government of Chongqing. It is honored as “Chongqing Municipal Advanced Unit for Vocational Education”,“Chongqing Municipal Model Vocational College. Since the establishment of school in 1936, more than 100,000 technical talents and management talents have been cultivated for the country. The college is located in Fuling, the hinterland of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, and the intersection of Yangtze and Wujiang River, which is also the town of pickled mustard. CQITP covers an area of 330,000 square meters with 453million in fixed assets, 119 million RMB of equipment for teaching and research, 7 intramural productive training bases, 160 internal training rooms and a 2.01million volume library collection. The college has 10 teaching institutions, including the School of Intelligent Manufacturing, the School of Artificial Intelligence, the School of Finance and Economics, the School of Health, the School of Architecture and Engineering, the School of Vehicle Engineering, the School of Education, the School of Continuing Education, the School of Marxism, and the International Exchange and Cooperation Center. It offers 49 majors including Mechatronics Technology, Industrial Robot Technology, Big Data Technology and Application, Artificial Intelligence Technology Application, Big Data and Accounting, Drug Production Technology, Automobile Manufacturing and Testing Technology, Construction Engineering Technology, and Preschool Education. There are 2 National Backbone Majors, 1 High-level Professional Group of Chongqing's "Double High Plan", 4 High-quality Professional Groups of Chongqing, 5 Backbone Majors of Chongqing, 4 Demonstration Majors of Chongqing, 3 Dual Base Majors of Chongqing, 1 Professional Capacity Improvement Project Major of Chongqing, and 5 School-enterprise Cooperation majors in the majors. Currently, there are over 12000 full-time students enrolled.
Chongqing Water Resources and Electric Engineering College is a public full-time ordinary college approved by the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government and recorded by the Ministry of Education of China. It is a national high-level training base for senior skilled personnel, a national demonstration college for higher vocational education in water conservancy, a backbone vocational college in Chongqing, a post-doctoral scientific research workstation in Chongqing, and a national high-quality vocational college in water conservancy and a construction unit for Chongqing’s “Double High-levels Plan”. The college was originally established in 1964 and was upgraded to a full-time regular higher education institution in 2004. It covers an area of 936 acres, with over 300 internship bases both on and off campus, and offers 42 majors covering 10 major categories, including water conservancy, electric power, resources, environment and safety, energy, power and materials, equipment manufacturing, education and sports. At present, there are 13,700 full-time students, more than 720 faculty members, 165 professors and associate professors, more than 350 people with postgraduate degrees or above, and more than 50 doctors. It has 8 municipal top-teachers and famous-teachers, 143 core-teachers, and 268 double-professionally-titled teachers. Teachers and students have won more than 100 awards in national, provincial and ministerial vocational skills competitions, and more than 300 national, provincial and ministerial awards in sports, literature and art.
Chongqing Technology and Business Institute is a public full-time higher education university established by the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government and approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is a national backbone vocational college designated by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, and a construction unit of the “High-level Vocational Schools and Specialty Construction Plan with Chinese Characteristics (Double High-level Plan)”. CQTBI has three campuses in Hechuan District and Jiulongpo District, covering a total area of 220 acres. There are currently 1043 faculty members, including 75 with professor and other senior professional titles, 200 with associate professor, senior engineer, senior laboratory technician and other deputy senior professional titles, and 718 with doctoral and master degrees. Two professional teacher teams, including “Software Technology” and “Digital Media Technology”, have been selected as the “National Vocational Education Teaching Innovation Team”. Six of them have been awarded the title of National Technical Expert, and one has been selected as a renowned teacher in the New Era Vocational School by the Chinese Ministry of Education. There are currently over 17,400 full-time regular higher education (vocational) students on campus. CQTBI currently has 2 countries of origin for international students (Thailand and Laos), and has enrolled more than 100 degree international students and over 300 non-degree international students, including 10 who have received the Chongqing Mayor’s Scholarship for Foreign Students. Furthermore, CQTBI continues to carry out the Chongqing Mayor Scholarship Program for International Students in China and is committed to establishing sound management systems and quality assurance mechanisms for international students, strengthening cultural identity among international students, promoting assimilation management for international students, and showcasing the charm of traditional Chinese culture for international students. At the same time, CQTBI vigorously implements Global Vision, a student overseas exchange program, through setting up an international platform for industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation to select excellent students with outstanding academic performance and skills to participate in overseas research and internship employment, and broaden students’ horizons. CQTBI actively builds an international platform for the integration of industry and education, continuously assisting Chinese funded enterprises in “going global” to cultivate local practitioners. CQTBI has successively established the “Sino - Thailand Silk Road College” and the “Sino - Laos Silk Road College” at the Don Mueang Institute of Technology in Thailand and the Babasa Vocational and Technical College in Laos, focusing on academic and non academic education, customized training, course resources, exchange activities, and other content. CQTBI continuously explores new models of talent cultivation of “Chinese+Vocational skills”, forming multi-level and three-dimensional international industry-education integration cooperation models such as “University - University” and “University - Enterprise - University”.
Chongqing City Vocational College is an accredited institution by the Ministry of Education, sponsored by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government and supervised by the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. It is a full-time public higher vocational institution established in 1950 as the Chongqing Workers' Political School. The college has been recognized as an advanced unit for vocational education teaching reform in Chongqing and has been selected among the top 50 "Outstanding High Vocational Schools for Talent Cultivation", "Outstanding High Vocational Schools for Service Contribution", and "Outstanding High Vocational Schools for Industry-Education Integration" in the western region of China. Located at the "bridgehead" of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, the Western Vocational Education Base, the Chongqing Yongchuan National High-tech Zone, and the core area of the Big Data Industrial Park. The campus covers nearly 1000 acres with a building area of over 300,000 square meters. There are more than 14,000 full-time students currently enrolled. The college employs over 700 staff members, including more than 150 teachers with doctoral degrees, associate professors, and professors, and over 200 "dual-skilled" teachers. Additionally, there are more than 400 teachers with master's degrees or postgraduate qualifications. The college leads the establishment of the "China-Laos Vocational Education Development Community", with the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission and the Department of Technical and Vocational Education of Ministry of Education and Sports, Lao PDR have jointly signed the "Memorandum of Cooperation on Supporting the Construction of the China-Laos Vocational Education Development Community". The college has built an international shared industry college with Laos, forming an international exchange and cooperation platform with "one college and four centers". The "Construction of Laos Shared International Industry College" has been selected as an international characteristic project in Chongqing. The college has developed 33 international courses and course standards for Laos, established 10 bilingual Chinese-Laos international courses and 17 course standards; developed 7 international vocational standards for Tanzania and 2 for Sri Lanka, and had 4 course standards certified and introduced by the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports. Students from Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Indonesia, and other countries have come to the college for academic visits and research, which are continuously enhancing its international influence.
Chongqing Youth Vocational & Technical College was founded in 1954 as the Chongqing Youth League School, changed into Chongqing Youth Management Cadre College in 1987, and turned into a full-time public regular higher educational institution with national enrollment in 2006. In 2016, according to the reform requirements of the central people’s group organizations, the college was transferred from the supervision of the Chongqing Youth League Municipal Committee to that of the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. It has several titles, such as a high-quality higher vocational college in Chongqing, a high-level specialty group construction unit in Chongqing, a role model unit in Chongqing, and a national pilot college for first aid education in colleges. The college now has three campuses, Beibei Campus, Banan Campus, and New Banan Campus, and the main body of the college is located in Chongqing High Vocational City. The college has 7 secondary teaching schools and offers 37 majors and has constructed seven major specialty groups, with more than 14,000 students and more than 700 teaching staff in the college. The college insists on opening up, actively responds to the Belt and Road Initiative, and helps to promote the national strategy of the Western Development Drive in the new era. The college has carried out international exchanges and cooperation with universities in Belarus, Japan, Ethiopia, Germany, the United States, Thailand, and other countries. The college, BYD, and Chonburi Institute of Science and Technology jointly built a new energy vehicle talent training base in Thailand. Relying on the Mayor’s New Silk Road Scholarship Program and the Chinese Bridge Program, the college implements international cooperation programs such as intercollegiate exchange students, curricular training, academic upgrading, and overseas internships and employment. The college actively promotes the implementation of the “Chinese language + vocational skills + intangible cultural heritage program”, “cross-border e-commerce + China-Europe Railway Express (Chengdu-Chongqing)” and other special education programs. The college has explored international two-way exchanges of students and international teacher training to create a new model project for vocational education overseas and to shape a new brand of international cooperation “Study Abroad at Chongqing Youth Vocational & Technical College”.
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 Business Vocational College was founded in 1962. It is a full-time public higher education college organized by the Chongqing Municipal Government and jointly built by the Municipal Commerce Commission and the Municipal Education Commission. It is a high-quality higher vocational college in Chongqing and a high-level higher vocational college in Chongqing. It is the National High-Skilled Talent Training Base, National Exemplary Employee Education and Training Base, World Skills Competition Baking and Western Food Project China Training Base, Chongqing Business Talent Training Base, Chongqing Catering High-Skilled Talent Training Base, Chongqing Printing and Packaging Vocational Education and Training Base, Chongqing International Leading Service Talent Training Base. The college currently has two campuses, namely University City and Nan'an, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres and having nearly 16,000 students. In recent years, the college has taken high-level openness as its main line, carried out all-round, wide-ranging, multi-level and high-quality international cooperation, and established in-depth cooperative relations with more than 30 colleges and universities in countries along the “One Belt and One Road”. In total, more than 500 talents of various types have been trained.
Chongqing Chemical Industry Vocational College is a public full-time general institution of higher education organized by Chongqing Municipal People's Government, under the supervision of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, and jointly built by Chongqing Municipal Education Commission and Chongqing Municipal Economy and Informatization Commission. The college was founded in 1964 through the merger of Chongqing Chemical Industry Workers' University and Chongqing Chemical Medicine Technician College. Chongqing Chemical Industry Vocational College has two campuses, Jiangbei and Changshou. The Jiangbei campus is located in the GUANYIN BRIDGE commercial circle, which is a national 4A urban tourism area. The Changshou campus is located in the Bodhi Mountain Cultural Park, which is a national 4A tourism scenic area. The college covers an area of nearly 400,000 square meters with a building area of nearly 200,000 square meters and more than 15,000 students. The college is "Chongqing High-level Higher Vocational School Project Construction Unit", "National Demonstration Base for Cultivating Highly Skilled Personnel", "National Demonstration Training Base for Vocational Education and Training in Petrochemical Industry", "Chongqing Civilized Campus". Relying on two national and four municipal key majors, the college has constructed nine major professional clusters with two municipal "double-high" (i.e., high level high vocational school and high level professional group) professional groups of applied chemical technology and pharmaceutical production technology as the core. The college vigorously implements the strategy of talent and strength. More than 30% of its teachers have associate professor title or above, more than 65% have master's degree or above, and more than 75% have double certificates or double titles, i.e., "teacher + intermediate or above technical positions". At the same time, the college has 21 experts and master teachers at the municipal level and above. The college has won more than 110 awards at the municipal level and above in the competitions of teaching ability of vocational colleges and universities. The college adheres to internationalization and serves The Belt and Road Initiative. It participates in the China-Thailand Vocational Education Alliance and the Southeast Asian Alliance of Enterprises and Vocational Education, and establishes cooperative relationships with Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia.
