Chongqing Jiaotong University
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Motto | 空谈误国,实干兴邦,明德笃学,求实创新 |
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Type | Public university |
Established | 1951 |
President | Tang Boming |
Students | 24,000 |
Location |
Chongqing, ![]() |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | cqjtu.edu.cn |
Chongqing Jiaotong University was founded in 1951 as a university with engineering being the primary focus. The university also teaches management, natural sciences, and humanities. Situated in the Nanan District of the Chongqing Municipality, China, the university has a campus occupying an area of over 1,600 mu with a floor space of 600,000 square meters.
Programs
Chongqing Jiaotong University is authorized to confer three Ph.D. degree programs, 27 masters degree programs and 42 bachelor degree majors. It also is qualified to confer master's degrees to personnel of the same academic background and authority to confer engineering master's degrees in five fields. The total enrollment of full-time students is over 16,000.
Staff
The university has a staff of 1,700 including 1,000 academic faculty members among whom there are five State-level candidates of the State “hundreds and thousands talents project”, altogether over 390 professors and associate professors. The three academics of China Academy of Engineering namely Professor Zheng Jielian, Professor Han Qiwei and Professor Liang Yincheng are specially engaged professors of the university.
In addition, the university has 120 talents including top-level candidates of the “thousands and hundreds talents project” of the Ministry of Communications (MOC), scientific and technical talents of the MOC, top class academic and technological leaders of the Chongqing Municipality and provincial-ministerial-level specialists and experts, all entitled to governmental special allowances of the State Council.
The university also has engaged over 140 part-time professors including academics of the China Academy, the China Academy of Engineering, foreign academics, experts and scholars both home and abroad.
Teaching
In 2001, the university underwent a random teaching level evaluation of normal college undergraduates given by the Ministry of Education and the evaluation result was “Fine”. The graduate supply of the university falls short of demands and initial employment rate of normal college graduates has exceeded 90% for eight consecutive years. Over 50 years of operation, the university has cultivated over 40 thousand graduates for the State including Mr Zhemg Jielian, academic of the China Academy of Engineering, Mr Liu Xiaofeng, vice governor of Sichuan Province.
Research
In the last five years the university has undertaken 40 scientific research programs of State grade, 250 scientific and research programs of provincial and ministerial grades and has published 100 academic works and 4,000 academic papers.
The university has obtained 20 patents for inventions. The university has issued three public academic journals among which is the journal “Applied Mathematics and Mechanism” whose chief editor Qian Weichang is an academic of the China Academy of Science, which is mainly operated by the university and included in both SCI and EI. The journal is published in Chinese and English versions to more than 50 states and districts all over the world. The “Journal of Chongqing Jiaotong University (natural science edition)” is a scientific and technological journal associated with the university.
Library
The university library has 1.4 million books and a broadband Internet network that covers the entire campus.
Awards
Since 2000, after receiving State invention award in 1996 and the second and the third prizes of the State scientific and technological progress in 1998, the university has received another three State prizes namely the State first prize and the second prize for scientific and technological progress, the State second prize for teaching fruit.
International collaboration
The university has cooperative relationships with 30 foreign universities and scientific research units including the University of Texas in United States, University of Hannover of Germany, University of St. Petersburg in Russia, and University of Hanoi in Vietnam. Since 2004, the university has started to enroll overseas students.[1]
References
- ↑ "Brochure for International Students (Chongqing Jiaotong University)". Admissions.cn. Retrieved 21 August 2014. External link in
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External links
- Official website (English)
Coordinates: 29°29′34″N 106°34′05″E / 29.4928°N 106.5681°E