Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU)

Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU) is located in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province. Founded in 1958, SWPU was originally named Sichuan Petroleum Institute. It was renamed Southwest Petroleum Institute (SWPI) in 1970. Achieving university status in 2005, it became Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU). Originally SWPU was supported and administered by the Ministry of Petroleum Industry and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Since 2000 the university has been supported and administered by Sichuan Province.{)N`+EW\[8k\g2u
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SWPU comprises two campuses: the original at Nanchong (more than 700 mu, or 115 acres) and the second at Chengdu (more than 2,000 mu, or 346 acres) with a total area of about 2,800 mu, or 461 acres. The total floor space is more than 800,000 square meters.}kn4.$Y0]d!0
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The university is composed of 17 schools and departments that together offer 44 bachelor’s degree programs. SWPU was among the first universities in China to offer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. It has one provincial-level graduate school that offers three post-doctoral research programs. There are 17 doctor’s degree programs, 53 master’s degree programs, and one key discipline program in oil and gas engineering. At the provincial and ministerial level there are seven key laboratories and 25 research and technical centers, including a center for well-completion techniques that was built with the assistance of the United Nations. In addition there is the Sino-Canadian Training Center for Natural Gas Exploration and Exploitation that was built with the support of the Canadian government. At the national level there is one Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation (SWPU) in which three key disciplines are pursued. Under auspices of the Ministry of Education there is an oil and gas equipment key laboratory, the Natural Gas Exploitation Engineering Research Center, and the Oil Field Petrochemical Engineering Research Center. At the university two extensive libraries are available to offer a collection of about 2.64 million bound volumes.FpAIhz`U|%V86Q:
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Students from across the nation attend SWPU. Each year 5,000 first-year undergraduates enroll in addition to 1,000 first-year post-graduates. The present enrollment of full-time students is more than 23,000, including 18,000 undergraduates and 3,000 postgraduates. More than 70,000 students have been graduated from SWPU since its establishment. Within the past ten years the proportion of students successfully being employed is more than 94 percent every year.8LB14W5(@#brspy}LYJH
Currently there are 1,340 teachers, including 178 full-professors and 380 associate professors on the faculty. In addition to these teachers, SWPU has the distinction of having other highly qualified personnel, such as an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering; three experts with the title Nationally Top Academic Scholars and Technicians in the New Century Project; and six outstanding teachers at the national level. Also, 78 doctoral supervisors and 55 experts have been honored on the national level for making outstanding contributions in both scientific research and in education. One scholar has been designated College Young Teacher by the Ministry of Education. Six scholars have been awarded the Fok Ying Tung Young Teacher Award and thirteen others have received prizes from the Sun Yueqi Scientific and Educational Foundation. Thirty experts have been recognized for their outstanding contributions on the Sichuan Province level and by CNPC. Others to be honored on the Sichuan Province level are 12 leading academic scholars, 28 reserve leading academic scholars, six outstanding teachers, and 48 young and middle-aged mainstay teachers.qvg;M}!ei+dl93ZxCCy
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SWPU has received several prestigious awards. In 2001, it obtained a grade of excellence on the Undergraduate Students Teaching Level Evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education; 25 universities were included in the evaluation. The petroleum and natural gas engineering discipline at SWPU ranked first on the 2002-2004 National Specialty Evaluation List issued by the Ministry of Education. In 2005 the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation (SWPU) passed the evaluation of the Ministry of Science and Technology. In October 2007, the postdoctoral research program of petroleum and natural gas engineering was recognized as the National Excellent Postdoctoral Research Program, the only non-key university in the country to be so honored by the Ministry of Personnel Affairs and the National Postdoctoral Administration Committee of China.x)=,Bf5+-|ne[
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SWPU has been involved in over 3,985 scientific programs since 2001 and has obtained 783 million RMB in scientific funding, winning 62 provincial or ministerial prizes. One hundred and sixty-eight patents have been approved. SWPU has had numerous works and thousands of papers published, over 750 of which have been indexed by EI, SCI and ISTP. SWPU’s work in advanced technology has been applied at home and abroad to receive outstanding social and economic benefits.k$vzl@oD~7n:6q&]21f
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