Founded in 1950, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT) is a post-telecom university deployed and constructed emphatically by Chinese government. With the full sponsorship from MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) and Chongqing Municipality, the university is a multidisciplinary teaching and research institution that plays a leading role in the field of information communication. The university is located in Chongqing city, southwest of China. Within 70 years, CQUPT has cultivated over 130,000 specialists in a variety of fields, and has won national technology innovation awards in the field of information industry and is the national model base of advanced technology industrialization. The university is recognized as the Cradle of Information Technology Specialists and the birthplace of digital communication in China.
- Campus locates in Chongqing city scenic resort and covers an area of 730 hectares.
- 25,000 full-time students, over 1,900 full-time faculty members.
- 16 schools offering 56 undergraduate programs, 18 master programs, 2 PhD programs.
- 7 ministerial first-class subjects , 5 ministerial key subjects, 5 ministerial outstanding engineers subjects, 23 provincial first-class subjects, 14 provincial key subjects. Engineering and computer science subjects are ranked in the top 1% of ESI.
- 5 national engineering lab education centers, 10 national and provincial exemplary centers of teaching, 58 national and provincial excellent courses and bilingual courses, 16 national and provincial department of scientific and technological innovation team and teaching teams.
- More than 50 national and provincial research centers.
- More than 100 university-enterprise integration platforms and 200 internship bases outside campus.
- Over 600 international students, one of Chinese Government Scholarship universities.