Chengdu University of Information Technology

Chengdu University of Information Technology is a provincial general undergraduate college jointly established by Sichuan Province and China Meteorological Administration and focused on by Sichuan Province. The school was founded in 1951 and restructured into Chengdu Meteorological School of the Central Meteorological Administration in 1956; it was upgraded to an undergraduate college-Chengdu Meteorological College in 1978; in 2000, the school was transferred from the China Meteorological Administration to Sichuan Province and renamed Chengdu University of Information Technology; in 2001, the Sichuan Statistics School, which was originally affiliated to the National Bureau of Statistics, was fully incorporated; in 2015, it was renamed Chengdu University of Information Technology. The school is a national central and western basic capacity construction engineering college, the first batch of national "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot colleges, the first batch of "First-Class Discipline Construction" colleges in Sichuan Province, and a priority college for the cultivation of new doctoral degree awarding institutions in Sichuan Province.

The school currently has two campuses, Aviation Port and Longquan, covering an area of ​​more than 2,000 acres. The school has a library with rich collections and modern sports stadiums with complete facilities. The environment is elegant and the scenery is pleasant. It is an ideal place for studying and studying.

The school adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, strengthens the position of talent training center, deepens education and teaching reform, and continuously improves the level of talent training capacity. The school has established a talent training model of "three-stage training, two diversions, and diversified development", and is committed to cultivating high-quality application-oriented senior professionals with healthy mind and body, good humanistic qualities, systematic theoretical knowledge, and solid practical ability for the country. There are currently 20 teaching units, 58 undergraduate majors, and nearly 26,000 full-time students. There are 31 majors approved as national and provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, including 13 national ones; there are 8 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" and 9 provincial "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot majors. The school draws on the international CDIO engineering education concept and vigorously promotes education and teaching reform. It is the only formal member of the international CDIO organization among universities in western China.

The school has comprehensively strengthened discipline construction, and its discipline characteristics and advantages have become increasingly prominent. The school focuses on information disciplines, atmospheric disciplines, and economics and management disciplines, features interdisciplinary cross-disciplines, and takes engineering, science, and management as the main disciplines. Engineering, science, management, economics, literature, law, and art are coordinated and integrated. There are currently 2 provincial "double first-class" construction disciplines, 5 provincial key disciplines, 14 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, and 12 master's professional degree authorization categories, forming three major discipline groups: atmosphere, information, and economic management.

The school conducts scientific research in the forefront of world science and technology and major national needs, fully serves the development of meteorology, statistics, national defense, and other undertakings, and fully implements the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle and Sichuan's "one trunk and multiple branches" development strategy. The level of scientific research and the ability to serve society continue to rise. The school currently has 22 provincial and ministerial key laboratories and key research bases in social sciences, 12 provincial university key laboratories and key research bases in humanities and social sciences, 6 provincial and municipal science popularization and training bases, and 1 postdoctoral research workstation. In recent years, the school has undertaken nearly 200 projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the Natural Science Foundation, and the Social Science Foundation, and has won more than 70 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial levels or above, including 3 National Science and Technology Progress Awards.

The school has vigorously strengthened the construction of the faculty team, and the faculty strength has continued to grow. There are more than 1,400 full-time teachers, including more than 600 doctors and nearly 600 senior titles. There are more than 120 experts with special government allowances from the State Council, the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provincial academic and technical leaders, and provincial outstanding experts; there are more than 10 national model teachers, national meteorological teaching masters, provincial excellent teachers, and provincial teaching masters. More than 100 academicians, Changjiang, Jieqing and other high-level experts are employed as part-time professors of our school. More than 20 teachers of our school serve as part-time doctoral supervisors outside the school, and have 46 relatively influential major academic part-time jobs.

The school conscientiously implements the national education opening-up work in the new era and the requirements of the "Belt and Road" for the internationalization of education, and adheres to open education. The school has signed cooperation agreements with more than 40 well-known universities and research institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Singapore and other countries, and established 4 international joint laboratories (joint research institutes) in cooperation with well-known foreign universities such as Colorado State University and University of Belgrade in Seville. It has carried out all-round and multi-level international exchanges and cooperation in the fields of teaching, scientific research and talent training, and the internationalization level of school education has been continuously improved.

Looking to the future, the school will continue to uphold the university spirit of "success in the atmosphere and trust in the world", be people-oriented, pursue excellence, and strive to make more and greater contributions to serving national strategic needs and regional economic and social development.