Southwest University

southwest university (swu) is a comprehensive and national key university sponsored by the ministry of education of china. swu was founded in july 2005, by the merger of southwest normal university and southwest agricultural university. the history of both universities can be traced back to 100 years ago. it is one of the "211 project" universities (top 100) which get preferential support for their development and construction from the central government of china. the total number of the students at swu is more than 80,000, of which 50,000 are full-time students. there are many international students working for their bachelors, masters, doctors degrees and advanced studies in swu every year. swu is located in chongqing municipality, which is the central city in the western china development project. the three gorges, dazu stones carving and hotpot food are worldwide famous and unique. southwest university began to enroll international students in the 1950s. it is also one of the unive