Chongqing Three Gorges University

Chongqing Three Gorges University, simplified Chinese is 重庆三峡学院, set up in 1956, is a National comprehensive university in China. It is located in Wanzhou, the second largest city in Chongqing Municipality at the heart of the Three Gorges Dam Areas by the Changjiang River. It presently has a total enrolment of 13, 000 full-time domestic students and international students; and a staff of about 1,000, including about 300 professors and associate professors, about 400 Master's Degree or Doctor's Degree winners, and more than 60 external part-time Professors and international teachers.

CTGU has 14 teaching faculties. It opens more than 70 specialties for 3-year students and 4-year students, which cover 8 disciplinary domains. It has prominent advantages in the teaching and research of the specialties of marketing, international trade, environmental protection, folk art, languages and literature, physical education, tourism, biology, chemical engineering, ethnonymics, and even occupies the leading position in China in some of the specialties and subjects. (Datas by 2009)

CTGU has established wide cooperation and exchange relationship with many universities both at home and abroad, and has made great achievements in developing teachers / students exchange and academic exchange. In 2007, CTGU established collaboratively a Confucius Institute at Community College of Denver in Colorado, USA.

External links

• Chongqing Three Gorges University Official Website