The university has 1,820 staff members, including 1,274 full-time teachers, among whom there are 561  professors and associate professors, and 633 professional teachers have masters’ degree. There are 167 graduate supervisors, and 17 experts who enjoy the special subsidy granted by the State Council. One university teacher has been chosen as the candidate for “the National Million Talents Project”. Another teacher is entitled as the “Youth Expert of National Outstanding Contribution”, and 6 teachers are honored as “Distinguished Expert of Outstanding Contribution in SichuanProvince”. 20 teachers are known as the academic and technological pioneers in Sichuan or potential talents. The total enrollment in CWNU has reached around 25,000, including undergraduates, graduates, international students plus adult students for continuing education.
It has 21 colleges and departments, plus 28 research institutes, offering 34 master-degree programs, 51 majors for four-year undergraduates, 16 for three-year students. The university has 4 provincial key subjects, 3 provincial key laboratories, 14 provincial key courses, 21 provincial-level Elaborate Courses and 3 famous provincial undergraduate majors. Moreover, CWNU provides 11 provincial training centers for  undergraduate talents, and offers a training basis for postgraduates of education as well as postgraduates of agricultural popularization. All majors and programs here are widely open to overseas students, among which subjects like Chinese, History, Education, Fine Arts, Music, Dancing, Wushu, Chinese Calligraphy show great appeal and popularity.
In recent years, CWNU has become actively involved in various international exchanges and co-operations, especially in cultural and academic fields. It has built partnerships through diverse ways of communication and cooperation with many universities and education organizations in America, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Germany, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The university has enrolled overseas students since 1997, with the enrollment in the charge of Foreign Affairs Office of CWNU. With curriculums covering a wide range of subjects, CWNU provides admission to overseas students with different programs— long-term or short-term Chinese language trainees, potential undergraduates majoring in Chinese language, graduates majoring in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, and undergraduates or graduates with would-be majors that they’ve selected here. Meanwhile, groups and organizations for Chinese culture research & study, for short-term Chinese language learning, for Mandarin study, are attracted to this dynamic university.
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