According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Chongqing University ranks first among the best universities in Chongqing. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, Chongqing Municipality and the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. It ranks among the national "double first-class", "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project", and is selected into the "Innovation Ability Improvement Plan of Colleges and Universities" and "National Defense Science, Technology and Industry Bureau". China Education Online shows that Chongqing University ranks 35th in China and 40th1-500th in the world. The dominant disciplines of Chongqing University are engineering, materials science, chemistry, mathematics, physics, earth science and so on.