Chongqing University, located in Chongqing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipality. It is a national "double-class" A-class world-class university, and the first batch of high-level research-oriented comprehensive universities in "21Project" and "985 Project". That is, "excellent engineer education and training plan" and "excellent legal talent education and training plan".
Liu Xiang was founded on 1929. In the 1940s, it became a national comprehensive university, with six colleges of arts, science, engineering, business, law and medicine. 1942 was renamed as National Chongqing University, and 1960 became a national key university. In May 2000, the former Chongqing University, chongqing jianzhu university and Chongqing Institute of Architecture merged to form the new Chongqing University.
The school covers an area of 52 12 mu, with 35 colleges and 95 undergraduate majors, covering science, engineering, economics, management, law, literature, history, philosophy, teaching, literature and medicine 1 1 disciplines. There are more than 47,000 students, including master students and doctoral students 1.9 million, undergraduates/26,000 and foreign students 1.7 million.
Southwest University, mainly located in Beibei District of Chongqing, is located at the foot of Jinyun Mountain and beside Jialing River. It is a "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction university, ranked in the national "21engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" and selected as "1 1".
Southwest University was formed by the merger of Southwest Normal University directly under the former Ministry of Education and Southwest Agricultural University directly under the former Ministry of Agriculture in 2005. The original two schools were built adjacent to each other and have the same origin, both of which can be traced back to the East Sichuan Normal School established in 1906. Several generations later, it was renamed Sichuan Education College on 1936. 1950, Sichuan Provincial Institute of Education merged with 1940 National Women's Teachers College and 1946 Private Xianghui College of Literature and Law to form Southwest Normal College and Southwest Agricultural College respectively. From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. Since then, Chongqing Light Industry Workers College, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College and Citrus Research Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences have merged.
From July 2065438 to July 2007, the school official website showed that Southwest University covers an area of more than 9,600 mu and consists of Beibei Campus, Rongchang Campus and Xita College. Among them, Beibei headquarters covers an area of more than 8,000 mu, with a school building area of 6,543.8+0,650 square meters. It is a garden-style institution with a green space rate of 40%. The library has more than 4.62 million books; There are more than 30 colleges (departments) with more than 50,000 students and 2,968 full-time teachers.
In addition, Southwest University is one of the seven universities in China that implement free education for normal students, one of the pilot universities in China that independently select and enroll students, one of the 60 cooperative universities in the national postgraduate program of building high-level universities, and one of the founding schools of Chongqing University Alliance.