Southwest Medical University (SWMU)is a one of the Famous Chinese Historical and Cultural Cities which is at the conjunction area of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou Provinces and Chongqing Municipality.

After sixty years of development, with the growth of the People’s Republic of China and carrying forward the innovative spirits of generations of its faculty and students, SWMU has developed into an important base for the personnel training and scientific recreation in Sichuan, and the health care center in the joint point of 3 provinces and 1 municipality. SWMU has 4 fields disciplines for conferring Master’s degree, 7 first-class disciplines, 42 secondary disciplines, 7 units for conferring a professional degree, 1 key discipline of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and 6 provincial key disciplines. SWMU provides 26 undergraduate majors including 7 disciplines: medicine, science, management, law, engineering, literature, and education.

SWMU began to enroll international students in 1996 and was qualified to confer degree to the international students in 2003. It began its undergraduate program in Clinical Medicine in 2004, and began the post-graduate program in 2013. At present more than 300 international students studying Clinical Medicine on campus, they come from 12 countries including the U.S.A., India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Ghana. The international students who have graduated from the university have subsequently taken the License Examination in their home countries. The passing rate is 81.9%. Up to now, SWMU has trained 23 groups of short-term international students in Traditional Chinese Medicine. These students have come from Germany, Portugal, Spain and the U.S.A.