Sichuan University

Sichuan University (SCU) is a public comprehensive research university in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in south-western China, and is directly administered by the Ministry of Education.四川大学（Sichuan University，简称川大）位于中国西南四川省省会成都，是教育部直属的公立综合性研究型大学。

It is one of China's oldest universities, tracing its modern origin to the Sichuan Chinese and Western School opened on 18 June 1896, and it is a member of Project 211, Project 985 and the Double First-Class Construction.它是中国历史最悠久的大学之一，其近代源头可追溯至 1896 年 6 月 18 日开办的四川中西学堂，并位列「211 工程」「985 工程」与「双一流」建设高校。

It places 300th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and operates four campuses, three in Chengdu and a fourth in the neighbouring city of Meishan.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 300，设有四个校区，其中三个位于成都，第四个位于邻近的眉山市。

History

• In 1895 Lu Chuanlin, then governor of Sichuan, petitioned the Guangxu Emperor for permission to establish a modern school in Chengdu that would combine Chinese and Western learning.1895 年，时任四川总督鹿传霖奏请光绪帝，在成都创办一所中西学兼修的新式学堂。

• The Sichuan Chinese and Western School formally opened on 18 June 1896, with an initial curriculum of English and French and mathematics added the following year, and it assessed students through a credit-like system.四川中西学堂于 1896 年 6 月 18 日正式开办，初设英文与法文课程，次年增设数学，并以类似学分的制度考核学生。

• In 1902 the school merged with the older Zunjing Academy to form the Sichuan Provincial University Hall, which was renamed the Sichuan Provincial Capital Higher School by the end of that year.1902 年，学堂与历史悠久的尊经书院合并，组建为四川通省大学堂，并于当年年底改称四川省城高等学堂。

• In 1903 the Jinjiang Academy, whose history dated to the Qing dynasty, was incorporated, and these older academies became part of the university's institutional ancestry.1903 年，历史可追溯至清代的书院锦江书院并入，这些旧式书院由此成为学校建制谱系的一部分。

• In 1905 a Sichuan Normal School was founded, and five specialised provincial colleges in law and politics, agriculture, Tibetan studies, engineering and classical learning appeared between 1905 and 1910.1905 年，四川师范学堂创立；1905 至 1910 年间，法政、农业、藏文、工业、存古五所专门学堂相继设立，构成清末四川高等教育的主体阵容。

• After the 1911 Revolution the higher school was renamed the Sichuan Government Higher School, and the five specialised colleges were each renamed as provincial professional schools.辛亥革命后，高等学堂改称四川高等学校，五所专门学堂也分别更名为四川公立各专门学校。

• In 1916 the Sichuan Higher School merged with the Sichuan Higher Normal School to form the National Chengdu Higher Normal School, one of the six national normal colleges of the time.1916 年，四川高等学校与四川高等师范学校合并，成立国立成都高等师范学校，为当时全国六大高等师范之一。

• In 1926 the higher normal school divided, part of it becoming National Chengdu University with three colleges and eleven departments, while its teacher-training functions formed National Chengdu Normal University.1926 年，国立成都高师一分为二，一部分组建国立成都大学，设 3 个学院 11 个系；其师范职能则形成国立成都师范大学。

• In 1927 five provincial specialised schools in law and politics, agriculture, foreign languages, engineering and Chinese studies were consolidated into Public Sichuan University, organised into five colleges and nineteen departments.1927 年，法政、农业、外国语、工业、国学五所省立专门学校合并为公立四川大学，设文、理、法、工、农 5 个学院 19 个系。

• On 9 November 1931 National Chengdu University, National Chengdu Normal University and Public Sichuan University were consolidated as National Sichuan University, one of the earliest thirteen national universities of the Republic of China.1931 年 11 月 9 日，国立成都大学、国立成都师范大学与公立四川大学合并为国立四川大学，是当时中华民国最早的 13 所国立大学之一。

• During the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chengdu campus was bombed on 27 July 1939, and in September 1939 the university relocated to Mount Emei to escape further Japanese air raids.第二次中日战争期间，成都校舍于 1939 年 7 月 27 日遭轰炸；1939 年 9 月，学校为躲避日军空袭迁往峨眉山。

• In 1943 National Sichuan University returned to Chengdu, settling near the Nine-Eye Bridge site that became its present Wangjiang Campus.1943 年，国立四川大学迁回成都，落脚于九眼桥附近的新校址，即如今的望江校区。

• By 1949 the university comprised six colleges in arts, science, engineering, agriculture, law and teacher training, with 25 departments, 981 staff and 5,057 students.到 1949 年，学校设有文、理、工、农、法、师范 6 个学院、25 个系，共有教职工 981 人、在校生 5057 人。

• A separate origin leading to the modern university was West China Union University, founded in Chengdu by Protestant missionary organisations from Britain, Canada and the United States and opened in 1910 with eleven students.通往现代川大的另一支源头是华西协合大学，由来自英国、加拿大与美国的基督新教差会创办，1910 年开办时仅有 11 名学生。

• Its arts and sciences programme reopened in 1913 after the 1911 Revolution, and a medical faculty began instruction in 1914, developing medicine and dentistry into major academic strengths.其文理课程在 1911 年革命后于 1913 年恢复，医学部于 1914 年开始授课，逐渐把医学与牙学发展为主要学术强项。

• After the establishment of the People's Republic, the private university was renamed West China University in 1951 before being reorganised in line with the nationwide restructuring of higher education.中华人民共和国成立后，这所私立大学于 1951 年更名为华西大学，随后又在高等教育的全国性院系调整中重组。

• In 1953 its medical and health-sciences programmes formed the basis of Sichuan Medical College, which received university status and was renamed the West China University of Medical Sciences in 1985.1953 年，其医学与卫生学科构成四川医学院的主体；该院于 1985 年升格并更名为华西医科大学。

• National Sichuan University was formally renamed Sichuan University in September 1950 and was then reorganised along Soviet lines into an institution concentrated on the humanities and basic sciences.国立四川大学于 1950 年 9 月正式更名为四川大学，随后依苏联模式调整为一所以人文与基础学科为主的高校。

• In August 1954 its former College of Engineering became the independent Chengdu Engineering College, which absorbed the Sichuan Chemical Engineering College in 1955 and was renamed the Chengdu University of Science and Technology in 1978.1954 年 8 月，其原工学院独立为成都工学院，1955 年并入四川化工学院，1978 年更名为成都科学技术大学。

• Sichuan University was included among China's national key universities in 1960, and although regular admissions ceased for much of 1967 to 1976, academic activity expanded again after the reforms that began in 1978.四川大学于 1960 年被列入全国重点大学；尽管 1967 至 1976 年间大部分时间停止常规招生，学术活动仍在 1978 年改革开放后重新扩张。

• In April 1994 Sichuan University merged with the Chengdu University of Science and Technology to form Sichuan Union University, which joined the first phase of Project 211 in 1996 and regained the name Sichuan University in December 1998.1994 年 4 月，四川大学与成都科学技术大学合并成立四川联合大学，1996 年入选「211 工程」第一期，1998 年 12 月恢复四川大学校名。

• In September 2000, with State Council approval, the university merged with the West China University of Medical Sciences, whose medical and dental traditions became the basis of the present West China Medical Center.2000 年 9 月，经国务院批准，学校与华西医科大学合并，后者的医学与牙学传统成为如今华西医学中心的基础。

Academics

• Sichuan University is a comprehensive research university directly administered by the Ministry of Education and built up under Project 211, Project 985 and the Double First-Class Construction.四川大学是教育部直属的综合性研究型大学，在「211 工程」「985 工程」与「双一流」建设中重点建设。

• Its academic programmes span 13 broad disciplinary categories, from literature, science and engineering to medicine, economics, management, law, philosophy, agriculture, education and the arts.其学科覆盖 13 个门类，从文学、理学、工学延伸到医学、经济学、管理学、法学、哲学、农学、教育学与艺术学。

• As of 2026 the university reported 37 discipline-based schools and academic departments, in addition to the Overseas Education College that serves international students.截至 2026 年，学校设有 37 个学科性学院与系，另设面向国际学生的海外教育学院。

• In the first Double First-Class discipline list published by the Ministry of Education, six Sichuan University disciplines were selected, namely mathematics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, basic medicine, stomatology and nursing.在教育部公布的首轮「双一流」建设学科名单中，四川大学有 6 个学科入选，即数学、化学、材料科学与工程、基础医学、口腔医学与护理学。

• The university maintains five first-level national key disciplines and 46 second-level national key disciplines, together with 49 first-level doctoral degree programmes and 39 postdoctoral stations.学校拥有 5 个一级国家重点学科与 46 个二级国家重点学科，另有 49 个博士学位授权一级学科与 39 个博士后流动站。

• In 2026 it reported one national major science and technology infrastructure, 19 other national-level research platforms and four newly organised national research platforms, alongside four national social-science platforms.2026 年，学校拥有 1 个国家重大科技基础设施、19 个其他国家级科研平台与 4 个新组建的国家级科研平台，另有 4 个国家级社科平台。

• National key laboratories associated with the university include the National Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, the National Key Laboratory of Oral Disease Prevention and Control, and the National Key Laboratory of Mountain River Protection and Governance.与学校相关的国家重点实验室包括生物治疗全国重点实验室、口腔疾病防治全国重点实验室以及山区河流保护与治理全国重点实验室。

• The oral-disease laboratory originated as the State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, approved in 2007, and was reorganised under its present name in 2023.口腔疾病实验室最初是 2007 年获批的口腔疾病国家重点实验室，并于 2023 年以现名重组。

• Medical education is organised through the West China Medical Center, whose teaching units include the West China School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, the West China School of Clinical Medicine and the West China School of Stomatology.医学教育通过华西医学中心组织，其教学单位包括华西基础医学与法医学院、华西临床医学院与华西口腔医学院。

• Its clinical teaching is closely tied to four principal West China hospitals, namely West China Hospital, West China Second University Hospital, West China Hospital of Stomatology and West China Fourth Hospital.其临床教学与四所主要华西医院紧密相连，即华西医院、华西第二医院、华西口腔医院与华西第四医院。

• The Ministry of Education reported in 2021 that the university had 64 nationally recognised first-class undergraduate courses and had introduced inquiry-based, small-class teaching across much of its undergraduate curriculum.教育部在 2021 年指出，学校当时拥有 64 门国家级一流本科课程，并在大部分本科课程中推行研讨式小班教学。

• Its national programmes for foundational disciplines have included training bases in mathematics, chemistry, biology, basic medicine, and Chinese language and literature.其国家基础学科人才培养计划设有数学、化学、生物学、基础医学以及汉语言文学等基地。

• The university employs more than 3,800 full-time faculty, among them 14 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one foreign member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.学校现有专任教师 3800 余人，其中中国科学院与中国工程院院士 14 人、加拿大工程院院士 1 人。

• In 2025 the Ministry of Education described the university as expanding doctoral and interdisciplinary training in areas including artificial intelligence, medical technology, carbon-neutral technologies, new energy and new materials.2025 年，教育部称学校正向人工智能、医学技术、碳中和、新能源与新材料等领域拓展博士与跨学科培养。

• One of its research facilities is the National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure for Translational Medicine, centred on biotherapeutic translational medicine, whose clinical-research core at West China Hospital entered use in 2021.其科研设施之一是转化医学国家重大科技基础设施，以生物治疗转化医学为核心，其中位于华西医院的临床研究核心于 2021 年投入使用。

• The university also operates a Carbon Resource Neutrality integrated research platform studying the conversion of waste carbon products into green materials and fuels.学校还设有碳资源碳中和综合研究平台，研究把废弃含碳产物转化为绿色材料与燃料。

• Joint and specialised units include the Sichuan University–Pittsburgh Institute and the College of Excellent Engineers, which deliver engineering education and training in cooperation with partners.联合与专门办学单位包括四川大学匹兹堡学院与卓越工程师学院，与合作伙伴共同开展工程教育与培养。

Campus

• Sichuan University operates four campuses, namely Wangjiang, Huaxi, Jiang'an and Meishan, with the first three in Chengdu and Meishan Campus in the neighbouring city of Meishan.四川大学设有望江、华西、江安、眉山四个校区，其中前三个位于成都，眉山校区则位于邻近的眉山市。

• The university reports a combined campus area of 8,050 mu, approximately 5.37 square kilometres or 1,330 acres, spread across the four sites.学校报送的校园总面积为 8050 亩，约合 5.37 平方公里或 1330 英亩，分布于四个校区。

• Wangjiang Campus is the principal administrative campus, located in Wuhou district, and accommodates much of the university's humanities, social-science, natural-science and engineering teaching and research.望江校区是主行政校区，位于武侯区，承载了学校大部分人文、社科、自然科学与工科的教学科研。

• Several early buildings at Wangjiang and Huaxi have heritage protection, for in 2013 the State Council included university buildings dating from 1913 to 1954 in the seventh group of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.望江与华西的多座早期建筑受文物保护，2013 年国务院把学校 1913 至 1954 年间的早期建筑列入第七批全国重点文物保护单位。

• Huaxi Campus, historically known as Huaxiba, is the principal campus of the West China Medical Center and originated as the campus of West China Union University, retaining a concentration of early twentieth-century buildings.华西校区旧称华西坝，是华西医学中心的主校区，源于华西协合大学校园，保留着成片的 20 世纪早期建筑。

• Jiang'an Campus in Shuangliu district entered use in September 2003, is planned around landscaped waterways, and includes the Jiang'an Library, completed in 2005 with a floor area of about 25,300 square metres.位于双流区的江安校区于 2003 年 9 月启用，围绕景观水系规划，其中的江安图书馆于 2005 年建成，建筑面积约 25,300 平方米。

• The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, established with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is based at Jiang'an Campus, which also serves first- and second-year undergraduates.与香港理工大学合作设立的灾后重建与管理学院坐落于江安校区，该校区同时承担本科一、二年级的教学。

• Meishan Campus, the first outside Chengdu, was approved in December 2020 and took its first students in September 2025, its first phase comprising more than twenty buildings and about 340,000 square metres of floor area.眉山校区是首个设于成都以外的校区，2020 年 12 月获批，2025 年 9 月迎来首批师生，其一期建有 20 多栋建筑、建筑面积约 34 万平方米。

• The library system has four main branches and holds Chinese thread-bound books, rare editions, local Sichuan materials and pre-1949 newspapers, while the museum, descended from the antiquities museum of West China Union University, holds more than 80,000 objects and was designated a National First-Class Museum in May 2024.图书馆体系设有四个主要分馆，收藏线装书、善本、四川地方文献与民国报刊；博物馆源于华西协合大学的古物博物馆，藏品逾 8 万件，并于 2024 年 5 月被评定为国家一级博物馆。

Reputation

• Sichuan University places 300th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.四川大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 300。

• It is placed at 224th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，学校位列第 224。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking places it 139th in the world.2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将其列为世界第 139。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, or ARWU, places Sichuan University 77th globally, 15th in Asia and 10th in China.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把四川大学列为世界第 77、亚洲第 15、中国第 10。

• The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings ranked the university 61st in the world as of 2022, reflecting its standing among senior academics.截至 2022 年，泰晤士高等教育世界大学声誉排名把学校列为世界第 61，反映其在资深学者中的声望。

• The 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking placed it 4th in the world by total publications and 9th by the number of papers in the top 1 per cent of their fields for 2020 to 2023.2025 年 CWTS 莱顿排名按论文总数将其列为世界第 4，按 2020 至 2023 年各领域前 1% 高被引论文数列为世界第 9。

• The Nature Index 2026 ranked it 8th among universities in China and the Asia-Pacific and 9th in the world among global universities, and 12th worldwide for the rolling period from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.《自然指数》2026 年将其列为中国与亚太地区高校第 8、全球高校第 9；在 2025 年 4 月 1 日至 2026 年 3 月 31 日的滚动周期中位列世界第 12。

• According to OpenAlex, Sichuan University has produced 251,148 research works that have attracted 20,083,715 citations, among the largest research outputs in China.据 OpenAlex 统计，四川大学已产出 251,148 项研究成果，累计被引用 20,083,715 次，属中国科研产出规模最大的高校之列。

• As of the 2020s no Nobel laureate, Turing Award winner or Fields Medallist is recorded among Sichuan University's alumni or faculty, its reputation resting instead on scale of output and its medical and dental strengths.截至 2020 年代，四川大学的校友与师资中尚无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主记录，其声誉更多建立在产出规模与医学、牙学优势之上。

Student life

• The university's motto is Hai Na Bai Chuan, You Rong Nai Da, taken from a couplet by Lin Zexu and roughly meaning that all rivers run into the sea and that tolerance is what makes greatness, paired with a school spirit of rigour, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation.学校校训为「海纳百川，有容乃大」，语出林则徐自勉联，大意是百川归海、有容乃大，并以「严谨、勤奋、求是、创新」的校风相配。

• During the National Sichuan University period the motto was the Hengqu Four Sentences of Zhang Zai, beginning with the aim of establishing the heart of heaven and earth for the people.国立四川大学时期的校训为张载《横渠四句》，以「为天地立心，为生民立命」开篇。

• The school anthem was revised by Zhang Lan in 1926, when he was president of National Chengdu University, drawing on the earlier anthem of the Sichuan Provincial Capital Higher School.学校校歌由张澜于 1926 年任国立成都大学校长时，在原四川省城高等学堂校歌基础上修改而成。

• Jiang'an Campus is the principal base for undergraduate and general education, where first- and second-year students take their common courses before moving to specialist teaching.江安校区是本科与通识教育的主要基地，一、二年级学生在此修读共同课程，之后再转入专业学习。

• In 1949 the university counted 5,057 students, about two-thirds of all university students in Sichuan, making it one of the largest higher-education institutions in the country at the time.1949 年学校有在校生 5057 人，约占当时全省大学生总数的三分之二，是当时国内规模最大的高等学校之一。

• A shuttle bus links Jiang'an Campus with Wangjiang and Huaxi, taking about thirty minutes, so students move regularly between the teaching, medical and residential sites.校车往返于江安校区与望江、华西校区之间，全程约需三十分钟，学生因此经常在教学、医学与住宿各校区之间往返。

• Because medicine and dentistry were developed from the West China Union University tradition, the West China campuses carry a distinctive medical and dental student culture within the wider university.由于医学与牙学承自华西协合大学的传统，华西各校区在这所大学内部保有独特的医学与牙学学生文化。

Notable people

• Zhu De, a military commander and one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army who later chaired the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, is identified as an alumnus through the university's predecessor institutions.朱德是军事家、中国人民解放军十大元帅之一，后来担任全国人民代表大会常务委员会委员长，据校方与媒体考证，其就学经历可追溯至川大的前身学校。

• Yang Shangkun, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, studied at Sichuan University, which lists him among its alumni.1988 至 1993 年任中华人民共和国主席的杨尚昆曾在四川大学求学，学校将其列为校友。

• Guo Moruo, the poet, writer, historian and archaeologist, is associated with the university's predecessor institutions and is listed among its notable alumni.诗人、作家、历史学家与考古学家郭沫若与川大的前身学校渊源深厚，被列入学校知名校友之列。

• Ba Jin, the novelist and essayist best known for the novel Family, is also listed among the university's notable alumni.以小说《家》著称的小说家与散文家巴金，同样被列入学校知名校友之列。

• Jiang Zhuyun, a Chinese Communist revolutionary popularly known as Sister Jiang, studied at National Sichuan University and is commemorated by the university in a memorial exhibition.中国共产党革命者江竹筠即人们熟知的「江姐」，曾在国立四川大学求学，学校设有纪念展陈加以缅怀。

• Dai Bingguo, a diplomat who served as a State Councillor of China from 2008 to 2013, graduated from Sichuan University's Department of Foreign Languages in 1964 after studying Russian.2008 至 2013 年任中国国务委员的外交官戴秉国，1964 年自四川大学外语系毕业，其专业为俄语。

• Jung Chang, the British-Chinese writer best known for Wild Swans, studied English at Sichuan University before leaving China for postgraduate study in Britain in 1978.以《鸿》闻名的英籍华裔作家张戎曾在四川大学学习英语，1978 年离开中国赴英国读研。

• Zhang Lan, an educator and political figure, served as the first president of National Chengdu University, a principal predecessor of National Sichuan University, and later revised the university's anthem.教育家与政治人物张澜曾任国立成都大学首任校长，该校是国立四川大学的主要前身之一，他后来还修订了校歌。

• Ke Zhao, a mathematician and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, served as professor, president and honorary president of Sichuan University, and the Erdos–Ko–Rado theorem bears his name alongside Paul Erdos and Richard Rado.数学家、中国科学院院士柯召曾任四川大学教授、校长与名誉校长，埃尔迪什—柯—拉多定理即以他与保罗·埃尔迪什、理查德·拉多共同命名。

• Wu Yuzhang, a revolutionary, historian and educator who presided over the Chengdu Higher Normal School from 1922 to 1924, went on to become the first president of the Renmin University of China.革命家、历史学家与教育家吴玉章于 1922 至 1924 年执掌成都高等师范学校，后来成为中国人民大学首任校长。