Cultivation of Talents

Chongqing University is selected into the first batch of 10 pilot universities for “Three-full Education” comprehensive reform, the first batch of 20 universities for “ideological and political work innovation centers of higher education institutions”, and the first batch of 10 universities for national elite institute of engineering construction, and is selected as one of the 10 universities for the “special cultivation program for energy storage technology high-level talents urgently needed by the state”, and is selected as a national industry and education integration innovation platform for energy storage technologies. The University is actively implementing the “2029 Action Plan for Undergraduate Education of Chongqing University” in order to build first-class undergraduate education. It has established Undergraduate School to fully carry out big category enrollment and cultivation and enhance general education. 61 majors of the University have been elected as Top Undergraduate Major of China, and 68 courses have been elected as Top Undergraduate Course of China. The majors of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Physics have been selected into “Pilot Reform of Enrollment for Basic Subject”. The Sugon Computer Science Top Student Cultivation Base has been approved as a basic discipline top student cultivation version 2.0 base by the Ministry of Education; and the School of Big Data & Software Engineering has been selected into the first batch of characteristic and demonstrative software schools. The University has established the Mingyue Lake New Engineering Education Innovation Platform and Chongqing Elite Institute of Engineering in collaboration with Liangjiang New Area.

Chongqing University continues to deepen reform of the cultivation systems and mechanisms and has carried out special pilot reform programs of cultivating research fund Doctors and engineering Masters and Doctors, and is actively implementing the “graduate education high-quality development action plan” so as to create excellent graduate education. The University has been approved as a university with the autonomous degree-granting authority. Currently, the University has 38 first-level discipline doctoral degree programs, 8 doctoral professional degree programs, and 51 first-level discipline Master’s degree programs and 25 professional degree programs. The size of doctoral degree student enrollment every year is more than 1,150 persons.

Chongqing University deepens “industry and education integration and crossover cultivation”. It has been successively accredited with such titles as the “National First Batch of Demonstrative Universities for Deepening the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Educational Reform”, a “University with National Typical Experiences for Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, and a “Demonstration Base for National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, etc. The University has undertaken the 8th China International Internet+ College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest.

Construction of Disciplines

Under the development ideas of “enhancing engineering, strengthening science, vitalizing liberal arts, enriching social sciences, expanding medicine, uplifting information science, and promoting inter-disciplines”, Chongqing University adheres to connotation development, high-quality development, and characteristic development of disciplines, consummates the optimized discipline layout mechanism that adapts to fast changes in science and technology and the systems and mechanism that are conducive to the emergence of leading disciplines in the future. The University has established a first-class discipline public service platform support system focusing on creating a first-class disciplinary ecology. It also carries out key construction programs in six disciplinary categories, continues to enhance the construction of first-class disciplines, type-I strong disciplines and three major disciplinary clusters, namely advanced manufacturing, smart energy, and new urbanization, and promotes and accelerates the development of the medicine discipline at a high starting point. It carries out the “basic liberal arts vitalization action plan” and the “basic science excellence action plan”, and accelerates and upgrades the overall developmental level of basic disciplines. As a result, the majors of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering have been elected as “Double First-class” disciplines in the second round assessment; the majors of Engineering, Material Science, and Chemistry have been elected as ESI worldwide top 1‰ disciplines, and 14 disciplines have been elected as ESI worldwide top 1% disciplines; and 7 disciplines have been elected as Top 50 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.