Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Founded in 1956, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the first four traditional Chinese medicine higher education institutions established in the People’s Republic of China. It is jointly supported by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Government of Sichuan Province and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is a national Double First-Class university.

The university covers approximately 1800 mu, with 21 schools, 39 undergraduate programs and more than 27000 full-time students.

It is a distinctive, high-level traditional Chinese medicine university centered on traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy, with mutually supportive, coordinated development in medical, pharmaceutical and health-related disciplines and programs. It has 1 national Double First-Class discipline, Chinese materia medica; 4 national key disciplines; and 44 provincial or ministerial key disciplines. In the global ESI subject rankings, pharmacology and toxicology ranks in the top 1 per thousand, while 6 disciplines, including clinical medicine, chemistry and agricultural sciences, rank in the top 1%.

The university has a strong faculty, with more than 1600 faculty and staff, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 National Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 5 National Renowned Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners, 6 national distinguished teachers, and more than 100 national-level experts and talents.

It has 11 national first-class program development sites and 14 provincial first-class programs, as well as 30 national and 132 provincial first-class courses, placing it among the leaders in China’s traditional Chinese medicine higher education sector.

It has 91 experimental platforms, including the State Key Laboratory of Southwest Characteristic Chinese Medicine Resources jointly supported by the province and ministry, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, and a national virtual simulation experimental teaching center for traditional Chinese medicine.

It has 6 directly affiliated hospitals, 11 other affiliated hospitals, and 109 member institutions in its medical consortium alliance.

The university has exchange and cooperation relationships with more than 50 countries and regions. It is a China-ASEAN Education and Training Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education, a Ministry of Science and Technology international science and technology cooperation base, a National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine international cooperation base for education and medical services, a participating university in the Ministry of Education’s demonstration base development initiative for international education in China, and a host university for Chinese Government Scholarship students. It exchanges and cooperates with countries and regions including the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Thailand. It has established the Chinese-foreign cooperative Keele Health Medical School, overseas branches in Portugal, South Africa and Canada, and an international college in Macao. It has branches of its affiliated hospital in Montenegro, Germany and Belarus, and is developing the China-Tajikistan Traditional Medicine Center in Tajikistan.

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine website: https://www.cdutcm.edu.cn/

International student admissions department website: https://zyd.cdutcm.edu.cn/gjjyxy