Chongqing Three Gorges University (CTGU, ), established in 1956, is a national

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Wanzhou District Wanzhou District ( zh, s=万州区 , t=萬州區 , p=Wànzhōu Qū) is Chongqing's second most populated urban core area on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China. It is currently governed as a district of Chongqing ...

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, at the heart of the

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areas on the

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. 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 has more than 70 specialties for 3-year students and 4-year students, which cover eight disciplinary domains. It has prominent advantages in the teaching and research of the specialties of

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s and

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, ethnonymics, and occupies the leading position in China in some of the specialties and subjects (). CTGU has established wide cooperation and exchange relationship with many

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both at home and abroad, and has developed teachers/students exchange and academic exchange. In 2007, CTGU established collaboratively a

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, USA.

References

External links

Chongqing Three Gorges University official website
1956 establishments in China Universities and colleges established in 1956 Universities and colleges in Chongqing {{China-university-stub