Southwest University of Science and Technology


Southwest University of Science and Technology is a university in Mianyang, Sichuan. There are 17 schools in the university. The campus has over 29,000 students: graduate and undergraduate. As of 2015, Xiao Zhengxue is the president.
It covers an area of 4088 mu. It is the second largest university in Sichuan province. The motto of Southwest University of Science and Technology is to be moral, to be learned, to be practical, and to be innovative.

History

The university originated with the 1939 founding of the Sichuan Jiangjin Ceramics Vocational and Technical School and the Sichuan Provincial Advanced Agricultural Vocational School, which occurred during the Sino-Japanese War. The campus was originally the Mianyang branch of Tsinghua University.

Department

There are 17 departments, colleges, and schools: