Southwest Petroleum University

Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU), the second petroleum university in the People's Republic of China, was founded in 1958, the first batch of "double first-class" world-class disciplines to build colleges and universities, is the "national construction of high-level university public school graduate project","central and western universities based capacity building project"(PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC) and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government to build. SWPU has developed into a petroleum discipline group (oil and gas, mechanical and electrical, subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Chemical, materials, computer, science, management) sprint the forefront of the world, multi-disciplinary coordinated development of the national key construction university. SWPU has 16 schools, 1 Photo voltaic Industry and Technology Research Institute, 1 Institute of New Energy and UnconventionalOil and Gas, and 1 engineering training center. There are 8 subjectgroups: science, engineering, management, economics, arts, law, education and artistics. 65 programs under those subject groups are qualified to recruit undergraduates; 4 first-levelprograms and 24 second-level programs are authorized to offer doctoral degrees. 18 first-level programs and 86 second-level programsare authorized to offer master’s degrees. Thereare 4 postdoctoral research stations, 1 first-level program and 3 second-level programs, which are all recognized as national key programs.