Southwest University, called Xida for short, is located in Chongqing. It is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), co-founded by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. It is a world-class discipline construction university, and ranks among the innovation platforms of 21/engineering and 985 engineering.
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Southwest University was selected into11/plan, 20 1 1 plan, excellent agricultural and forestry personnel education and training plan, excellent teacher training plan, 100-school project, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, and national college students' cultural quality education base. It is one of the seven universities that provide free education for normal students, a pilot university for national independent selection and admission reform, and the China Municipal Government.
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, both of which can be traced back to the East Sichuan Normal School established by 1906. 1936 was renamed Sichuan Institute of Education.
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.
As of 20 18 and 12, the school covers an area of more than 9,000 mu, including Beibei Campus, Rongchang Campus and Xita College. There are 1 1 departments and 3 affiliated hospitals; 36 colleges, 105 undergraduate majors; There are 22 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 28 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points and 5 1 first-class discipline master degree authorization points; 2968 full-time teachers; There are more than 50,000 students, including nearly 40,000 undergraduates, more than 10,000 graduate students1/kloc-0, and more than 2,000 international students.
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