To attract outstanding foreign students, the Chongqing Municipal People's Government has set up the Chongqing Municipal People's Government Mayor Scholarship for international students. The Mayor Scholarship is offered to outstanding foreign students who are studying for a Ph.D., Master's degree, Bachelor's degree or further study for more than one year (including one year) in Chongqing. The scholarship is renewable every year within the required years of study for those studying for a degree, and for the further study students it covers one year. Applicants can log in to the website of relevant institutions in Chongqing for more detailed information.
37 Institutions support the Chongqing Municipal Government Mayor Scholarship
Chongqing University was founded in 1929 with the vision of building a “well-equipped and influential university”. By the 1940s, the University had developed into a comprehensive university with a complete system of disciplines covering liberal arts, science, engineering, business, jurisprudence, and medicine, etc. In 1952, it became a multi-disciplinary university with focus on engineering disciplines after a round of nationwide faculty adjustment. In 1960, it was designated as a national key university. Since the Opening-up and Reform, the University has evolved into a higher education institution that mainly consists of engineering disciplines together with multiple other disciplines after all-around restoration, adjustment, reform, and construction. In 1998, the university was approved as a university for key construction under the state “Project 211”. In 2000, former Chongqing Jianzhu University and Chongqing Architecture Junior College merged with Chongqing University, together constituting the new Chongqing University. In 2001, it became a university for key construction under the state “Project 985”. In 2017, it was elected as a state “Class-A University under the National World-First-Rate University Construction Program”. In 2022, it was elected as a “Double First-class University” in the second round assessment. Hence, the University has entered a new era, striding toward the educational goal of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.
Chongqing University has a full range of disciplines, covering 11 categories, namely science, engineering, economics, management, jurisprudence, literature, history, philosophy, medicine, education, and art. Now the University has 7 faculties, 35 schools, and 7 affiliated hospitals. The number of faculty and staff is over 5,300 persons, the student population is over 50,000 persons among whom over 24,000 are postgraduates and over 26,000 are undergraduates. The campuses occupy a total land area of over 5,300 mu (approximately 883 acres), consisting of Campus A, Campus B, Campus C, Huxi Campus and Liangjiang Campus.
Founded in 2005, Southwest University (SWU) encompasses Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University, which share an origin dating back to 1906. The school enjoys a long-standing history as its fame through ceaseless strive towards academic innovation and integration with social development. As a member of “211 Project” and “Double First-class” universities, SWU has an extensive set of disciplinary categories including philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. It is especially known for its distinctive teacher education and agricultural education.
Over the past century, SWU has been taking pride in its outstanding faculties and graduates. Among the renowned scholars who have shared their insights at SWU were HOU Guangjiong, father of agrology; ZHANG Furong, founder of teaching theory in China; XIANG Zhonghuai, developer of the first framework of silkworm genome in the world; and HUANG Xiting, psychologist and educationist. Their endeavors have attributed to various notable graduates, including YUAN Longping, father of hybrid rice; HU Jinchu, founder of ecological biology of pandas; SHI Tingmao and ZHAO Shuai, Olympic champions. Beside rigorous academic training, the school also nourishes the students with abundant convenient service for various lifestyle. Situated in one of the most bewildering cities in China, Southwest University is endowed with magnificent mountainous view no less than any tourist attraction.
With its rich background, extensive history and inclusive education, Southwest University has been an ideal destination for studying in China, embracing around 2000 students all over the world every year. In the new era, SWU would like to extend its sincere invitation to students around the globe to come here for education.
Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) is located in Chongqing, a famous historical and cultural city and the only municipality in the central and western regions. It is the earliest institution of higher politics and law established in New China. As a university jointly built by Ministry of Education and Chongqing Government, SWUPL is one of the first national education and cultivation bases for outstanding legal talents, the Ministry of Education's "Collaborative Cultivation and Innovation Base for Foreign Rule of Law Talents", an institution entrusted with the cultivation of Chinese government scholarships for international students, and a university under the project of building the basic capacity of colleges and universities in the central and western parts of the country.
With over 70 years of hard work, SWUPL has formed a multi-disciplinary development mode, focusing on law, coordinated with philosophy, economics, literature, management, engineering, etc. And it has formed a multi-level education pattern from undergraduate to postgraduate, from domestic education to international education.
The school currently has more than 25000 students and more than 2000 faculty members, including over 600 teachers with senior professional positions, including the Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, the "Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists in China", and the State Council Government Special Allowance Expert. The teaching staff is strong with abundant scientific research achievements.
SWUPL adheres to the international development strategy. Now it has a large number of international exchange and cooperation programs with more than 200 partner universities from over 44 countries, such as U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Thailand, and South Korea and so on. There are two Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs, including the undergraduate law program at Coventry University in the United Kingdom and the Master of Laws Program at Case Western Reserve University in the United States. It is the only university in the western region that undertakes dual-degree programs for Chinese-foreign cooperative education in academic disciplines.
Chongqing Medical University was founded in 1956, partially moved and established from Shanghai First Medical College (the present Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University). It was originally named Chongqing Medical College and renamed Chongqing Medical University in 1985. Chongqing Medical University is among the first batch of institutions approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to award doctoral and master's degrees, and it is also among the first batch of demonstration bases for international students in China approved by the Ministry of Education. Since 2015, CQMU has been a major public medical university that is jointly administrated and supported by the Ministry of Education of China and National Health Commission as well as Chongqing Municipal Government.
Chongqing Medical University comprises two campuses, the Yuanjiagang Campus in Yuzhong District and the Jinyun Campus in Chongqing university City, totaling 2,650 acres. It currently has 27,842 full-time students, including 1,423 doctoral students, 6,972 postgraduates, 18,523 undergraduate students, 283 college students (supporting ethnic minority projects), and 641 international students.
Chongqing Medical University currently has 8 first-level doctoral degree programmes, 13 first-level master's degree programs, 3 doctoral professional degree programmes, and 12 master's professional degree programmes. It boasts 4 national key disciplines, 11 disciplines ranked in the top 1% globally in ESI, including clinical medicine ranked in the top 0.1% globally, 2 first-class disciplines in Chongqing, and 16 municipal key disciplines of Chongqing in the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Chongqing Medical University has 77 national and provincial research platforms, including 7 national platforms such as national key laboratories, national clinical medicine research centers, national engineering research centers, and national international science and technology cooperation bases, 8 ministerial or commission-level platforms such as key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, international cooperation joint laboratories of the Ministry of Education, collaborative innovation centers co-constructed by the Ministry of Education and provincial departments, and key laboratories of the National Health Commission; and 62 provincial platforms such as Chongqing key laboratories, Chongqing engineering (technology) research centers, Chongqing clinical medicine research centers, think tanks, and science popularization bases.
The university actively carries out exchanges and co-operation, and has established co-operative relationships with 56 educational or healthcare institutions in 23 countries and regions in Europe, Asia, North America and Oceania, including the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, Dartmouth College in the United States, the University of British Columbia in Canada, the University College London in the United Kingdom and other internationally renowned universities. CQMU–UoL Joint Institute is the only Joint Educational Institute (JEI) and is the sole Sino-foreign cooperative institute in Central and Western China with a clinical medicine major.
Chongqing Medical University currently has 14 affiliated hospitals with nearly 20,000 beds in total, serving nearly 15.46 million annual outpatient visits and 660,000 inpatient visits.
Chongqing Normal University was founded in 1954 with a traceable history dating back to the Public Eastern Sichuan Normal University in 1906. It has three campuses, respectively located in the Chongqing University Town, Shapingba District and Beibei District with total land coverage of 2688 mu.
The University has 17 schools, 4 doctor program of general discipline, 24 master programs of general disciplines, 74 full-time undergraduate education programs, and 14 municipal key general disciplines covering 12 subjects, including philosophy, law, economics, education, literature, science, and etc.
In the University, there are over 25,000 full-time undergraduate students and above 8100 master or doctor candidates. There are 2,200 active faculty members, including more than 900 senior faculty members and nearly 1,000 PhDs.
Following the trend of internationalization, the University has been persisting in open-up operation. It has established sound partnerships with education institutes in more than 30 countries and regions, including Russia, America, Australia and Britain for Sino-foreign joint development, cooperative research, mutual visits of teachers and students, or cooperation and exchange in other forms. It has established overseas education institutes, including Confucius Institute at Education Institute of Rwanda University in Rwanda, Confucius Institute at University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, Confucius Institute at Edge Hill Universityin UK, and Confucius Institute at Troy University in US, Widyakartika University Chinese Normal College in Indonesia. Also, the University facilitates its “CNU Foreign Students Education Program” to enroll students from all over the world, as a recipient of governmental scholarship, scholarship for Confucius institutes and mayoral scholarship from Chongqing People’s Government for foreign students.
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications(CQUPT) is recognized as the birthplace of China's digital communication technology and as the cradle for cultivation China's information technology talents. CQUPT was founded in 1950. The key facts of CQUPT are as follows:
Located in Chongqing city scenic resort with an area of 730 hectares.
30,000+ full-time students,including 7700+ graduates, 2,100+ full-time faculty members.
17 schools offering 60 undergraduate programs, 25 master programs, 5 PhD programs.
8 National Engineering Laboratories,80+ National and Provincial Research Centers.
Engineering,Computer Science,Material Science,Chemistry in the world’s top 1% of ESI disciplines.
With 102 partner universities and research institutes in 30+ countries and regions, 500+ international students.
Chongqing Jiaotong University (CQJTU)is a teaching and research university with distinctive transport characteristics, focusing on engineering and coordinated development of multiple disciplines, Founded in 1951, the university now has 15 doctoral programs, 65 master's programs, 58 undergraduate majors, covering engineering, science, management, economics, literature, art and other disciplines, and is one of the earliest universities in Chongqing to teach Chinese as a foreign language. Currently, the university has over 2,000 faculty members, including more than 1,500 full-time teachers and more than 700 senior titles. There are more than 27,000 full-time students,Among them, there are over 3,500 doctoral and master's students and 24,000 undergraduates currently enrolled,Over 150,000 talents of various types and levels have been cultivated cumulatively.The university started to recruit international students in 2004, established Confucius Institute with University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin in 2009, hosted the Confucius Institute in Washington State, USA in 2021,set up Chinese Language and Culture Training Centre in 2010.got the approval of Chongqing's first HSK test site in 2012, opened the undergraduate major of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages in 2014, and then opened undergraduate majors of International Trade, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, Civil Engineering, Tourism Management, and so on taught in English,Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages and Master of Business Management(MBM) approved in 2018, More than 1,000 international students from 31 countries across five continents have been trained, they are engaged in translation, management, Chinese language education and infrastructure construction in Chinese-funded transport and engineering organizations, Confucius Institutes (Classrooms), Chinese and foreign trade enterprises, and cultural exchanges and training, institutes, and are well received by the units and affirmed by the society.
Formerly founded in 1952, Chongqing Technology and Business University (CTBU) was established through the merger of the former Yuzhou University and the former Chongqing Institute of Commerce in 2002. CTBU is a high-level financial and economic applied research university that covers disciplines such as economics, management, literature, engineering, law, science, and arts. The university carries forward and promotes the spirit of "Inclusive Strength, Self-improvement, and Nation-building" and adheres to the educational philosophy of "Quality-oriented, Characteristic-driven, and Talent-strengthening." It follows the motto of "Virtue, Broad Learning, Seeking Truth, and Innovation," seizing significant opportunities in higher education development. A comprehensive talent training system from bachelor's to doctoral degrees has been formed. The university covers an area of 2,896 acres, with three campuses, 19 teaching colleges, 2,406 faculty members, and over 30,000 students.
The university proactively engages in international cooperation, integrating into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. It fully leverages its disciplinary strengths and vigorously promotes internationalization. Currently, it has two non-independent Sino-foreign cooperative institutions approved by the Ministry of Education and one regional and country-specific research center registered with the Ministry of Education. It has established partnerships with 110 universities in 34 countries (regions), annually hire nearly 100 foreign experts from over 20 countries, and has cumulatively enrolled more than 4,000 international students from over 30 countries. It has established one Confucius Institute and one overseas language and culture center, and is a member university of the "Belt and Road" China-Poland University Alliance. It offers program classes with international speciality such as ACCA, CIMA, and CFA.
Sichuan International Studies University (Chuan Wai or SISU for short), one of the first four state run foreign language colleges in China, sits in Shapingba District, Chongqing Municipality. It is a full-time university approved by the Ministry of Education and run by Chongqing Municipal People's Government.
Carrying on the founding spirit of "unity, diligence, rigorous attitude and realistic approach" and abiding by the motto of "global vision, academic excellence", the university distinguishes itself with an international perspective, a focus on foreign language education, and a commitment to diversifying disciplines. The university has strategized pursuing qualitative development that prioritizes academic excellence, stresses international exchange and balanced development of all disciplines.
The university has now evolved into a multi-disciplinary higher institution. In addition to the core discipline of foreign languages and literature, the university also offers doctoral, master, bachelor degrees and diploma programs in Chinese language and literature, journalism and communication, education, economics, management, law and other disciplines. The university also offers a post-doctoral research program in foreign languages and literature. The university academic journals Foreign Languagesand Literature and English Studies are well recognized among the academia. The university is a key provider of foreign language and international communication professionals and a leader in international studies, economic and foreign trade research in the southwest region of China.
There are 55 undergraduate majors, of which 26 are foreign language majors (24 foreign languages). There are currently more than 17,000 full-time students and 1,349 faculty members. The university covers an area of 71 hectares and has complete teaching facilities, including the most complete foreign language teaching multimedia classrooms in Southwest China, a pronunciation laboratory, a simultaneous interpretation laboratory, a translation laboratory, a business simulation laboratory, a comprehensive communication skills laboratory, and an interlanguage corpus laboratory, and the Chongqing Foreign Affairs Experimental Center.
SISU has established international cooperation and exchange programs with more than 100 universities and institutions in over 30 countries or regions. It has set up 3 Confucius Institutes jointly with the Russian University of Nizhni Novgorod, the Togolese University of Lomé, and the Central Education Service Center in Eastern Ohio, USA. Additionally, the university has set up one Confucius Class in Siyuan Chinese Language School in Ecuador.
As a public full-time general undergraduate institution approved by the Ministry of Education with the qualification of higher education enrollment, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute has the right to confer bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree. The Institute now has 11 secondary colleges, with about 8,000 students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs and international students. The Institute has Huangjueping Campus, an urban garden, and Huxi Campus, a poetic idyllic place, covering an area of 1106 mu.
Founded in 1940, the Institute is the only higher art school in Southwest China. In 1981, it became one of the first batch of master's degree and bachelor's degree conferring units in China, and was approved as a doctoral degree conferring unit in 2021. The Institute has two first-level disciplinary doctoral degree authorization points of Design and Art, one doctoral degree authorization point of Fine Arts and Calligraphy, and three master's degree authorization points of Design, Drama and Film Studies, and Landscape Architecture. At present, the provincial key disciplines are 100% covered in the discipline construction of the University, and 2 degree points of Fine Arts and Calligraphy and Design have been approved as the first-class disciplines in Chongqing, of which Fine Arts and Calligraphy is the pinnacle discipline. Marked by the excellent results achieved in the fifth round of disciplinary assessment and the national professional degree level assessment, the Institute's disciplinary construction has jumped to a new level.
The Institute endeavors to build a perfect system for training higher art talents. It enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad for its complete art education system, active academic atmosphere, outstanding artistic achievements, first-class school facilities and beautiful campus environment. It is also the cradle of China for cultivating high-level art talents and the major base for high-level art creation and academic research.
Founded in 1940, Chongqing University of Technology is a key university under the major development plan of Chongqing, with a focus on high-level emerging engineering disciplines. The university currently has more than 30,000 students including 6,000 graduate students. It offers 70 programs in fields such as Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Advanced Materials, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Management, and Intellectual Property.
With Engineering as its core, science as the foundation, empowered by humanities, our university has grown into a comprehensive university with balanced development in Engineering, Science, and Humanities. It boasts 14 key disciplines in Chongqing during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and has 15 first-level master's degree authorization points and 12 categories of master's degree authorization. The disciplines, including Engineering, Materials Science, and Chemistry, rank in the top 1% globally according to ESI. Our Mechanical Engineering program is ranked among the top in China by Shanghai Ranking, and we are one of the first universities to be approved by the Ministry of Education to establish a modern industrial college.
Our university adheres to a research orientation focused on "climbing to the highest peaks, drilling into the deepest depths, and advancing into the main battlefield." Our precision displacement measurement technology has reached an internationally leading level and is renowned as the "Chinese precision." We have established Chongqing's first and only research center for basic mathematics, and our new energy vehicle electric drive testing equipment has been widely applied in renowned automotive companies such as Changan Automobile Group and SAIC Motor Corporation.
We also follow an open education path of "joining into enterprises, stepping onto the global stage, and moving towards the future." We have engaged in extensive cooperation and exchanges with 69 universities and research institutions from over 20 countries and regions, including the United States, UK, France, Spain, Russia, South Korea, and Japan. We have established joint education programs and cooperation projects with institutions like Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and National University of Malaysia. Additionally, we took the lead to found the Intellectual Property University Alliance, with member universities primarily from countries along the Belt and Road Initiative. We have also built high-level collaborative innovation platforms, such as the Joint International Cooperation Laboratory of Ministry of Education, National University Science Park and commercialization and transfer base for scientific achievements. Over the past two years, our patent commercialization contracts have ranked among the top 50 Chinese universities, and we ranked 7th in China on the list of single scientific achievement transformations of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Our work has been recognized as one of the top 10 examples of China's industry-university-research collaboration.
Chongqing Three Gorges University (CTGU) is organized by Chongqing Municipal Government and supervised by Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. CTGU set up in 1950, is a national comprehensive university. The key facts of CTGU are as follows:
Located in Wanzhou, the second largest city of Chongqing Municipality in the heart of Three Gorges Areas by Yangtze River.
With an area of around 200 hectares.
Library collection: 2 million volumes of paper books; 1.89 million volumes of E-books.
20,000+ full-time students, including 2000+ graduates; 1400+ full-time faculty members, including 1100+ professional teachers.
18 schools covering 9 disciplinary categories: engineering, literature, management, science, agriculture, economics, pedagogy, law and arts.
18 schools offering 61 undergraduate programs, 13 Master’s degree points.
Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences (CUAS) is a full-time general undergraduate institution of higher education sponsored by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, a national language standardization demonstration school, a garden-style unit in Chongqing, a high-level new engineering construction university in Chongqing, and the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship universities. In 2021, CUAS was approved as a master's degree-granting unit.
There are 15 schools and 66 undergraduate majors covering 10 disciplines such as Literature, Science, Engineering, Management, Education, Agriculture, Economics, etc., realizing a successful transformation to multidisciplinary, application-oriented and comprehensive with 23,000 students. Three majors, which are Mechanical, Material and Chemical Engineering, and Agriculture, have been approved as master's degree authorization units.
It has signed cooperation agreements with more than 30 universities in the United States, Russia, Italy and other foreign countries, and is a subsidized unit of the State Scholarship Council for sending students abroad. It has trained more than 300 overseas students, and jointly trained more than 600 graduate students with more than 40 universities, including Chongqing University and University of Electronic Science and Technology.
Located in Fuling District of Chongqing, Yangtze Normal University is a full-time undergraduate higher education institution, which boasts fine traditions of teacher education and distinctive characteristics as an application-oriented university. Founded in 1931, Yangtze Normal University has a profound school-running history. The campus covers an area of more than 1700 mu, and the environment is elegant.
The university now has 21 secondary teaching units, more than 23,000 undergraduate students and 56 undergraduate majors, including 3 state-level first-class major construction sites, 12 municipal-level first-class major construction sites, and 1 Sino-foreign educational cooperation program.
The university has more than 1,300 full-time teachers, including nearly 600 teachers with senior professional titles, more than 400 teachers with doctoral degrees, one state-level candidate for the "National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project in the New Century”, and more than 100 provincial-level and ministerial-level talents, such as Chongqing academic and technical leaders and members of the Chongqing Talents Program.
Adhering to the principle of opening up, Yangtze Normal University has signed inter-university cooperation and exchange agreements with 39 foreign universities and institutions from 12 countries. The University has sent more than 500 teachers and students abroad for academic visits and exchanges, and enrolled more than 600 overseas students from 30 countries. Against this backdrop, benefits from international exchange platforms such as the Belt and Road Malaysia-China Cultural Exchange Center and the China-Poland Cultural Research Center have become increasingly prominent.
Chongqing University of Science and Technology（CQUST) is a full-time public undergraduate institution.The university has a strong focus on engineering and a balanced development in disciplines such as science, management, economics, law, humanities, and the arts. The university excels in fields such as oil and gas exploration and green development, as well as low-carbon metallurgy and advanced materials. In 2017, CQUST was authorized to confer master's degrees and in 2021, it received approval to establish doctoral degree programs, making a new milestone in its growth as an application-oriented research university.
The university is located in the heart of the Western (Chongqing) Science City. The campus boasts a beautiful environment and is well-equipped with comprehensive facilities for studying, living, cultural activities, and sports. The campus covers a total area of 1,694,700 square meters, with buildings occupying 732,500 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instrument and equipment approaches 680 million yuan. The library, covering an area of over 40,000 square meters, houses more than 2.1 million physical books and 2.04 million e-books, along with extensive digital information resources. The university has been recognized as a Chongqing Garden-Style Institution and is among the first batch of Chongqing Civilized Campus awardees.
CQUST has a faculty and staff team of over 1,700, including 660+senior professionals and more than 730 doctorate holders. The university has s student population of over 24,500 full-time students, including over 2,400 master's degree candidates.The university comprises 22 schools (departments, institutes, and centers).There are also 21 secondary-discipline master's programs or professional degree areas. The university has 10 nationally recognized first-class undergraduate programs.
CQUST actively engages in domestic and international academic and research collaborations. It has established partnerships with over 60 universities worldwide in teaching, research, and talent cultivation , including Edinburgh Napier University in the UK, University of Illinois at Chicago in the US, University of Regina in Canada, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland, Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, University of Veracruz in Mexico, Kyungpook National University and Changwon National University in South Korea, as well as Chinese institutions such as Chongqing University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China University of Petroleum, Southwest Petroleum University, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, and the Army Logistics Academy.
Dedicated to serving regional economic and social development, CQUST is committed to cultivating high-quality talent with global perspectives, innovative capabilities, and practical skills. The university is on a determined path to becoming a high-level, application-oriented research university with distinct characteristics
Founded in 1954, Chongqing University of Education or CQUE is a full-time public higher education institute under the administration of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. At present, there are 45 undergraduate majors, involving education, literature, science, engineering, management, economics, art and other disciplines. Chongqing University of Education adheres to open education and strives to develop itself into an international education platform. The university has carried out exchanges and cooperation with countries such as the United States, U.K., Spain, Italy, South Korea, Thailand.
Located in Chongqing Nan'an District, the university enjoys advantageous geographic location. Currently, the university has two campuses：Xuefu Avenue campus and Nanshan campus, and they are both very near to the Liberation Monument which is the landmark of Chongqing.
CQUE has developed exchange relationships with more than 80 universities and teaching institutes worldwide. It also has carried out Sino-foreign cooperative programs by introducing quality educational resources from the US, the UK, and Spain.
CQUE currently offers 5 undergraduate programs (Athletic Rehabilitation, Business English, Tourism Management, Chinese Language and Literature, Networks and New Media) and Chinese language program. Upon successful completion of the prescribed curriculum, passing the assessments, and defending the graduation thesis, students are awarded an undergraduate degree.
Chongqing University of Education warmly welcomes overseas students who are aware of and friendly to China to study in the University.
The CCIBE is located in Hechuan，Chongqing, in southwest China. After more than 20 years’ development, the CCIBE has been formed in economics and management as the main body；literature, science, technology, art, education comprehensive development pattern of academic disciplines.It has been awarded the "National Applied Talents Training Project (Training Base)" by the Ministry of Education of China and the "Smart Campus Construction Demonstration School" by Chongqing.
We have a team of teachers who love education and have excellent professional quality, and has built a number of high-level courses and specialties, and has achieved excellent results in scientific research.The CCIBE actively integrates into the social development, practices the responsibility of social citizenship, and provides intellectual support for the economic and cultural development of the region.
At the same time, The CCIBE have strengthened the integration with the industry, not only established a good cooperative relationship with many local enterprises, but also joined hands with Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, Jingdong, SF Express and other well-known enterprises to jointly cultivate students with rich theoretical knowledge and excellent practical ability.
The CCIBE adheres to the principle of open education, and clearly regards internationalization as the only way for development at the beginning of its establishment. The CCIBE insists on the concept of "bringing in" and "going out", encouraging teachers and students to go to the world, broaden their horizons and improve their abilities; The CCIBE also actively attract talented people from all over the world to exchange and teach. At the same time, The CCIBE sincerely welcomes excellent students from abroad to study.Among the teachers, there are talents who have studied abroad and returned to China after their studies, as well as international teachers recruited from all over the world. They integrate the international educational concept into the daily teaching work, and open the window for students to see the world.
Meanwhile,the CCIBE is committed to creating an international campus. The SICA (Students’International Communication Association) has been established, various cultural activities and competitions such as foreign language corners, international cultural festivals, and International Chinese education competitions have been held, and numerous international courses have been offered. The CCIBE Carries out various international projects, and students can participate in short-term study Tours, visiting studies, etc. Students can also apply what you learn and participate in overseas internships.
The CCIBE also has established extensive cooperative relations with various educational institutions including universities in South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Russia and other countries, to build a bridge of scientific research and academic exchange for teachers, and make a platform for students to improve themselves.
Every year, more than 100 students study and live in this international family. They study Chinese here and learn about China's past, present and future. Through international college to know China, fall in love with China, gain a better future, and to build a bridge of friendship between China and other countries to contribute their own strength.
The Chongqing Institute of Foreign Studies (CIFS), a fully accredited private undergraduate institution authorized by the Ministry of Education of China to grant bachelor's degrees, boasts a sprawling campus spanning over 1,500 acres and a student body exceeding 24,000. With two campuses located in Yubei and Qijiang, the Institute comprises 12 secondary schools offering 41 undergraduate majors across 6 disciplines: literature, education, economics, management, arts, and engineering.
CIFS steadfastly upholds the international education ethos and continually widens its avenues for global educational engagement. It has forged inter-university partnerships with over 50 universities, actively pursuing diverse forms of collaboration and exchange, including Sino-foreign joint programs, collaborative research initiatives, and mutual visits between faculty members and students. This approach has led to a progressively broadening platform for international cooperative education.
Chongqing College of Mobile Communication (formerly as College of Mobile Telecommunications, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications), founded in 2000, is a full-time regular undergraduate college ratified by the Ministry of Education, supervised by Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, and entitled to enroll students nationwide.
There are 14 secondary colleges, 50 undergraduate programs, among which there are 6 programs certificated by ASIIN, 9 provincial specialty undergraduate programs, 27 provincial first-class courses. Forming a professional system where engineering is the main subject but develops along with economics, management, literature and art as a whole.
The school is committed to becoming a first-class applied undergraduate college with new engineering as the main body and electronic information as the advantage in the central and western regions of china, and one of the most admired undergraduate university with distinctive characteristics in China. Our college has followed the school running concept centered on the students’ full development, determined the orientation of the Business College of Information Industry, and has innovatively constructed a “four-in-one (Extra-curriculum × General Education × Business Education × Major) Dual College System (Living in residential college × Majors in Academics) + Special Courses” talent cultivation model. If focuses on cultivating high EQ, management-savvy applied talents with solid foundations in natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, strong comprehensive qualities, international perspectives, innovative spirits, practical abilities, and competitive advantages.
Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College is an institution of higher learning approved by the Ministry of Education, organized by the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government, and administered directly by Chongqing Municipal Commission of Education. The campus of Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College is located in Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality，boasts a land covering of more than 2,071 mu (nearly equivalent to 341 acres) and a housing system of over 698,000 square meters. Moreover, it owns 2 directly affiliated hospitals with over 2,000 beds available, 8 non-directly affiliated hospitals, and 10 teaching hospitals.
The college is academically organized into 9 teaching departments including Clinical Sciences, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, etc. The college of Pharmacy offers majors including Pharmacy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Drug Operation and Management, Pharmaceutical Preparation Technology, Pharmaceutical Equipment Application Technology, Drug Quality and Safety, Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Technology, Traditional Chinese Medicine Production and Processing. The college enrolls students from 26 provinces and municipals across the country. There are currently over 22,500 full-time students. Today more than 1,700 faculty members instruct these students in college, and over 300 possess senior professional titles.
The college attaches great importance to international exchange and cooperation, establishes friendly cooperative relations with 12 foreign institutions (units). The school serves the “Belt and Road” Initiative, explores the “go global” model of traditional Chinese Medicine, and facilitates people-to-people exchanges between China and foreign countries. It actively participates in the development of 22 international education resources such as the international vocational standards of Tanzania. The college has jointly established “Shennong College” with medical colleges (institutions) in Uzbekistan, Uganda and other countries, and has carried out multi-form and multi-level cooperation and exchanges in long-term as well as short-term international student education and teacher training. It cultivates 189 international students, provides appropriate techniques training of traditional medicine for 154 people. It has also been approved to carry out a number of municipal and national international projects over the years.
Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College (CQMPC), founded in 1948, is one of China's first vocational college listed in the Building Plan of High-Level Vocational Schools and Majors with Chinese Characteristics. It has first-class teaching teams,and majors with high professional precision and strong competitiveness. The educational strength and talent training quality have been widely recognized by society. Since its establishment 76 years ago, CQMPC has trained more than 200,000 medical and health professionals.
The college has over 820 faculty members; over 30% of full-time teachers have senior titles, and more than 20% of full-time teachers have doctorates. The college has a group of outstanding teachers with highly recognized reputations, like National Famous TCM teachers and National “10,000 Talents Plan” Famous Teachers. The college offers 25 majors such as pharmacy, clinical medicine, stomatology, preventive medicine, nursing, medical laboratory technology, and Traditional Chinese medicine. According to the Golden Apple Ranking, the most influential ranking tool for Chinese vocational colleges, the competitiveness of medicine and health majors of CQMPC ranks the first among all vocational colleges in China.
CQMPC has more than ten modern on-campus training bases supported by Central and Chongqing municipal governments. There has 1 affiliated hospital, 1 co-constructed-and-managed affiliated-hospital, 17 non-directly affiliated hospitals, 20 teaching hospitals, and more than 100 off-campus practice bases.
CQMPC has deepened international exchanges and cooperation and achieved remarkable results in recent years. As a member of the China-Africa Vocational Education Alliance, China-Thailand Vocational Education Alliance, and International Land-Sea Trade Corridor Vocational Education Alliance, the college has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 30 universities and institutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, Laos, Uganda, and other countries. The college runs 2 Sino-foreign cooperative education programs cooperated with Canada and Ireland and conducts overseas education programs in Uganda. Besides, CQMPC has initiated and carried out foreign aid project approved by the Ministry of Education, Silk Road Project of the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government Foreign Student Mayor’s Scholarship Program, project of International Characteristics of Chongqing and project of Inland Education Open-up Highland Construction. Currently. There are 117 international students on campus.
Founded in 1965, Chongqing Polytechnic University of Electronic Technology (CQUET) is a public undergraduate vocational university. In May 2024, the Ministry of Education approved CQUET's establishment by merging with Chongqing College of Electronic Engineering, making it the first public undergraduate vocational university in Chongqing.The key facts of CQUET are as follows:
•CQUET has campuses in University Town, Beibei District, and Yongchuan
District, spanning an area of about 1.71 million square meters (2,566.18 mu) with 772,900 square meters of school buildings.
•Eight specialized colleges and four functional colleges ,serving 21,508 full-time students .
•Guided by its major characteristics, CQUET has established 14 digital intelligence-based characteristic major groups, including information security technology applications, Internet of Things technology applications, automobile manufacturing and test technology, and intelligent building engineering technology.
•In 2024, CQUET offers six full-time vocational undergraduate enrollment majors and 65 full-time higher vocational majors across 10 categories such as electronics and information, equipment manufacturing, and finance and trade.
Chongqing Industry Polytechnic College is a full-time public general institution of higher education organized by Chongqing Municipal Government and under the supervision of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission. The institution was formerly known as Chongqing Machine Manufacturing School, which was founded by the former State Second Machinery Industry Ministry in 1956; Chongqing Machine Manufacturing School and Chongqing Mechanical Workers' University were merged and upgraded to Chongqing Industry Polytechnic College in 2000; in 2006, it was approved to be the first batch of 28 national demonstration higher vocational colleges and universities; in 2010, it was relocated and moved into the Yubei Air Port; in 2019, it was approved to be the China Characteristics of high-level high-vocational Schools and professional construction program construction unit (B grade).
The institution has two campuses, Yubei Airport Campus and Nanchuan Campus, covering an area of 1,867.82 acres and a building area of 505,100 square meters. There are more than 16,000 full-time students, 2,268,400 books and 338,658,100 yuan of teaching and research equipment. It has 11 secondary colleges and teaching units, including School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Vehicle Engineering, School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, School of Economics and Management, School of Design, School of Architectural Engineering, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Electronics and Internet of Things Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Marxism (Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research Department), and School of Liberal Studies (Department of Physical Education), and offers 56 majors.
The school has achieved remarkable results in school running. It is one of the first batch of national model higher vocational colleges and universities, the national “double-high program” construction of high-level school (B grade) construction units, has been awarded three times as the national advanced unit of vocational education, and won the national vocational colleges and universities, “Top 50 teaching management”, “Top 50 student management”, “Top 50 student management”, “Top 50 student management” and “Top 50 student management”. In the “2022 Annual Report on the Quality of Vocational Education in China”, the school was honored as one of the 100 outstanding institutions in the Teacher Development Index of Higher Vocational Institutions, one of the 100 outstanding institutions in the Student Development Index of Higher Vocational Institutions, and one of the 60 typical institutions in terms of the contribution of services provided by higher vocational institutions.
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 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.
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.
