Sichuan University
| 四川大学 | |
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| Motto | 海纳百川 有容乃大 |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | the earliest direct predecessor Jinjiang Shuyun was founded in 1740 at Chengdu Fuxue which was originated in BCE 141. currently officially recognized establishment year is 1896, when the Sichuan Zhongxi School was founded. National Sichuan University was formed in 1931. |
| President | Xie Heping (谢和平) |
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Administrative staff
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11,357 |
| Students | 70,000 |
| Location | Chengdu, Sichuan, China |
| Affiliations | BRICS Universities League |
| Website | scu.edu.cn/en/ |
Sichuan University (Chinese: 四川大学; pinyin: Sìchuān Dàxué, often simply called to "川大" Chuāndà and shortened to "SCU" in English) is one of the universities , located in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province, China, with a long history and many predecessors, of which the earliest one was founded in 1740 with the origin in BCE 141. It was transformed to be a modern university in 1920s and the name National Sichuan University (國立四川大學) was adopted in 1931.
Sichuan University (SCU) is one of the national universities directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE). It is also one of the State 211 Project and 985 Project universities enjoying privileged construction in the Ninth Five-Year Plan period.
The president of the university is Professor Xie Heping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The current Sichuan University is the result of mergers of former Sichuan University and the two other universities, Chengdu University of Science and Technology (CUST, Chinese: 成都科技大学),which is under the Ministry of Education and formally called Engineering Institute of Chengdu (Chinese: 成都工学院), a school separated from the formal National Sichuan University in the 1950s, merged in April 1994, shortly known by the name of Sichuan Union University for the new formed university, and West China University of Medical Sciences (WCUMS, Chinese: 华西医科大学), a university under the State Ministry of Health, in September 2000.
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