Sichuan University

The history of Sichuan University traces back to the Sichuan Chinese and Western School founded by Lu Chuanlin, governor of Sichuan province, on imperial orders of Emperor Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in 1896. It was the earliest modern institution of higher learning in the southwest region.

Currently, the university has three campuses across Chengdu, covering a combined floor area of 2.56 million square meters.

By January 2019, the university had 34 departments and one school of overseas education. It offers 131 majors for bachelors, covering philosophy, economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, engineering, agriculture, management and art.

Four of the majors are national key nurturing disciplines, 46 national-level key disciplines, and 45 national key clinical specialties. Seventeen majors entered the top 1 percent in the global rankings set by the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), an authoritative analysis and evaluation tool for measuring scientific research performance, while the majors – chemistry, material science, and clinical medicine –entered the top 1 one-thousandth.

It also hosts 37 postdoctoral research stations, 47 doctoral degree programs for first-rank disciplines, and 32 authorized doctoral degree specialties.

By the end of 2018, there were more than 37,000 full-time undergraduates, over 26,000 postgraduates, as well as more than 4,200 foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The number of teaching staff members at the university totaled 5,808, of whom 13 are academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The university has won 31 prizes of the National Teaching Achievement since 2003.

The university has been promoting its international communication and cooperation in recent years, and has so far established cooperative relationships with 286 universities and colleges in 35 countries around the world.

It built five Confucius Institutes by cooperating with universities in South Korea, the United States, and Belgian. In cooperation with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, it also established a school of post-disaster reconstruction and management. The Sichuan University – Pittsburgh Institute was jointly set up by the university and the University of Pittsburgh in the United States.

Addresses:

Wangjiang campus: No 24 South Section One of Yihuan Road, Wuhou district, Chengdu, Sichuan province

Huaxi campus: No 17 Section Three of Renmin South Road, Wuhou district, Chengdu, Sichuan province

Jiang'an campus: No 2 Section Two of Chuangda Road, Shuangliu district, Chengdu, Sichuan province

Contacts:

+86-28-85406439 (International Cooperation and Exchanges Division)
+86-28-85467116 (International Students Office)

Fax: +86-28-85403260 (International Office)

E-mail: nic8203@scu.edu.cn (International Students Office)
             gjc@scu.edu.cn (International Office