Sichuan Medical University was founded in 1951 and is a government university recognized by both the Chinese government and the World Health Organization. It was authorized by the Degree Committee of the State Council to confer Master’s Degrees in 1993, and began to confer Doctor’s Degrees in 2002. It is one of the “Top 5 Model Universities in Electronic Education” in Sichuan province. For more than 50 years, the college has trained 20,000 students, and has evolved into a large-scale college of teaching, medical care and scientific research. It is characterized for combining Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine in various ways and at different levels. Sichuan Medical University has 16 departments. It has 18 majors and 9 special directions, among which there are 8 key provincial majors, 2 provincial key institutes, 2 provincial bases and 17 provincial key courses.
Sichuan Medical University is situated in the city of Luzhou, which is a National Famous Historical and Cultural City and a National Clean City. The city is bordered with Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, and Chongqing Municipality. Its campus is divided into two parts -- Zhongshan campus and Chengbei campus, covering 1,044,700 square meters in total. The old campus -- Zhongshan Campus -- is located on Mt. Zhongshan and is surrounded by the Yangtze River and the Tuo River, with a lot of green camphor trees, birds and flowers. The new campus—Chengbei Campus--is newly constructed with modern facilities.
The College started MBBS program in 2004 for South Asian Countries in English Medium. At present more than 300 students has graduates from the college and around 200 South Asian students are studying.
The website of Sichuan Medical University is：http://www.scmu.edu.cn
