Southwest Medical University formerly Luzhou Medical College is a medical university in Luzhou, Sichuan, China.  The university was established in 1951.

Southwest Medical University is under the provincial government of Sichuan and is listed with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Medical Education Directory (IMED).

The university has two campuses: Zhongshan and Chengbei, covering 1,004,700 square meters in total.

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. Among which, Clinical Medicine is among the top 1% in ESI Global Ranking. SWMU has 3 superior discipline groups—Preclinical and Clinical Cardiovascular Diseases, Preclinical and Translational Medicine of Oncology, and finally Preclinical and Clinical Medicine of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine. It forms the “Four-in-one” disciplinary characteristics in Medical Jurisprudence — The Science of Law, Provincial Medical Jurisprudence Research Center, Journal of “Medicine and Law” and the Judicial Identification Center.

Southwest Medical University has a strength of 17,000 pupils from all over China and from many foreign countries including Germany, Japan, India etc. There are 2,560 staff members among which 520 are professors & associate professors.

Southwest Medical University began to enrol international students in 1996. The passing rate is 81.9%.

It has 5 non-subordinating hospitals and 39 teaching hospitals with a total of 15,500 patient beds. The university has international student exchange & scientific research exchange programs with over 9 countries among them Germany, Japan, USA and the neighbouring SAARC countries.

Campus

The campus is divided into two parts – Zhongshan campus and Nangao campus, covering 1,044,700 square meters in total.

The Zhongshan Campus is located on Mt. Zhongshan and is surrounded by the Yangtze River and the Tuo River, with a lot of green camphor trees, birds and flowers.

The Nangao Campus is newly constructed with modern facilities.

The teaching buildings cover 150,000 square meters, the dormitories 80,000 square meters, the canteens 11,600 square meters, and the stadium 10,000 square meters, including 1 swimming pool.

The university has 3 affiliated hospitals, which are: The Affiliated Hospital of SWMU, the traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of SWMU and the Dental Hospital of SWMU. There is also a nursing school, a Pharmaceutical Factory, 7 non-subordinating hospitals and 56 teaching hospitals which total 20,000 clinical beds.

The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University is a “National, Class A, Grade III Hospital”, and is one of the biggest and most advanced hospitals in Southwest China. It has 1,500 staff (300 are professors and associate professors) and 60 departments with 1000 clinical beds. Every year it accepts 30,000 inpatients and 500,000 outpatients.

The separating operation performed on a pair of Siamese twins in 2004 was the first case done in Sichuan.

Academics

At present there are 12,547 students studying in the university, including; 93 international students, 363 postgraduate students, 11,587 graduate students and also some short-term international students.

The international students come from south Asian countries and the Chinese students come from 29 provinces.

Scientific Research

The college library has 940,000 books and journals, and 120 electronic reading rooms. The campus network covers both campuses.

The college now has 13 provincial and national research institutes including the Vascular Medicine Institute, 4 provincial key specialties and 17 provincial key courses.

“The Journal of Southwest Medical University” is published both in China and abroad, and has an international CO-DEN code for document retrieval. Furthermore, it is certified by the State Science Ministry as one of the resource journals for natural science information statistics.

Since 1993 the university has carried out 625 research programs, more than 1/4 of which have won awards of the ministry, the province and the city, and 12 were patented. 4,872 research papers have been published in various journals both nationally and abroad.

The college has established international exchange and cooperation relationship with 26 universities and institutes in 9 countries including Japan, Germany and the U.S.A. The university employs long-term foreign teachers to teach English language and medical subjects, and invites short-term visiting scholars to give guest lectures.

Master’s Degree Program in Medicine & Surgery

Up to 100% Scholarship available for Alumni Students of Southwest Medical University

Master’s Degree Program for International Students

Duration : 3 years

Eligibility:

1. Age requirements: 18-40 year old
2. Educational background: Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Medicine
3. Should pass SWMU Entrance Exam and Interview
4. Good health condition.

Majors of Master’s Degree

Required Documents

1. Application form
2. A valid passport
3. Health examination report, which must be original documents with the seal of a government hospital
4. Financial support report
5. Letter of financial guarantee
6. 10 color photos, each one 2 inches with white background
7. Letter of No Criminal Record issued by local public security bureau
8. Photocopies of Bachelor’s Degree, Graduate Certificates and Official Academic Records and its notarization documents
9. Recommendation letters (minimum 2) and study plan
10. The certificate of HSK Test (Level 4) and Above

Application Procedure

1. Time of Application: Master degree program: April 1st to July 30th each year
2. The Confirmation Letter and JW202 forms will be sent to the qualified applicants, with which the students can apply for their “X” visas in the Chinese Embassy.

Master’s Degree Program in Medicine & Surgery

Up to 100% Scholarship available for Alumni Students of Southwest Medical University

Fees Structure (in RMB)

Note: 1. The above fee is subject to the actual situation of each year.

2. Other fees including textbooks, resident permit, bedding etc. will be paid as actual.

*Fee applicable for Indian students [appropriately]

Upto 100% Scholarship

1. Sichuan Government Scholarship – 25,000 RMB
2. Luzhou Government Scholarship – 15,000 RMB / year
3. University Scholarship – 570 RMB – 2,000 RMB

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy

The pharmacy education of Southwest Medical University began in the 1950 s. Since School of Pharmacy was established, it has taken efforts and resources in promoting high quality graduate education. SWMU first introduced programmes at the postgraduate level with the School of Pharmacy in 2006. At present, the School has programmes in pharmacy, traditional  Chinese  medicine  and  clinical  pharmacy,  and  now   have  concluded agreements with both Macau University of Science and Technology and Chiang Mai University in Thailand to jointly nurture PhD students. There are more than 1100 undergraduate students and over 200 postgraduate student s in SWMU. SMWU is now considered as an important base for pharmaceutical talents cultivation and scientific research transformation in southwest of China.

The School hires first class teaching staff and those teachers that have been employed are mostly renowned professors (over 50 professor), scholars from world class universities and well-known pharmacy  expert  from bot h domestic and overseas.

Courses:

There are more than twenty main courses including chemistry, pharmacology , medicinal chemistry , pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical management, clinical pharmacotherapy, pharmacognosy, biotechnological pharmaceutics, bio pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics.

Duration: 4 years (including 1 year of internship)

Job opportunities:

The School has collaborated with more than 20 large hospitals and well­ known pharmaceutical companies,   and cultivates qualified personnel engaged in drug   development,   production   and   quality   control,   drug circulation and drug use for pharmaceutical companies, research institutes and medical institutions. The employment rate of the graduates is nearly 100%.

Infrastructure:

There are 2 provincial key laboratories in the School, with laboratory area of 5000 m² , containing more than 10 million US dollars of teaching and research instruments such as Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography  with Tandem Mass Spectrometry ,  Nuclear  Magnetic  Resonance  Spectroscopy and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. School has put tremendous efforts in promoting cutting-edge and translational research through interdisciplinary collaboration. The laboratories in the School are featured with variety of research projects including the application of CAR-T personalized cancer immunotherapy, tumour targeted drug innovation,  developing of targeted drug  delivery system and  clinical individual chemotherapy, evaluation of biological activity of natural products, etc . The construction of new pharmacy building and the transformational medicine center has been initiated, with area of 13 ,000 m² .

International Communication and corporation:

The School gives great importance to international communication and corporation. They promote stronger academic collaboration with overseas universities and research institutes, aiming to broaden  the  perspectives  of their researchers  and  students.  To date, the School has established friendly relationship with the United States, Canada, Australia, Germ any, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and institutions in other countries.  2018 International Symposium of Cancer and Inflammation has been successfully held in Luzhou , China from November 2-4, 2018 by the School. The researching and teaching staffs in our School gets more than 30 research funding each year, with an annual research funding of more than 2 million US dollars. More than 70 SCI papers every year were published with the highest SCI impact factor exceeding 10 points. Nearly 30 invention patents were authorized and  many awards such as Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Progress Award and Science and Technology Progress Award of Sichuan  were  obtained  by  the excellent teachers in School.

The admission procedure starts in the month of March for that years intake.

You will need to prepare the following documents for your application:

1. Valid passport for minimum 5 years.
2. Transcript of marks for Secondary level exams.
3. Transcript of marks for Higher Secondary level exams.
4. Police Clearance Certificate.