Chongqing Medical University, founded in 1956, was founded by Shanghai First Medical College (now Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University) and moved to Chongqing. The school has 2 1 college (department), a graduate school and 36 undergraduate majors, including clinical medicine, medical laboratory, pharmacy and nursing.

In terms of discipline construction, it is relatively perfect. At present, there are 7 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 12 first-level discipline master degree authorization points and 3 doctoral professional degree authorization points.