The teacher resource of a university reflects its comprehensive strength to a large scale. So it is an important factor to be considered when you choose a Chinese university to advance your study. The following five universities in Southwest China have the best teacher resources and will be surely put into your reference list.
Sichuan University has a competent teaching force. It has a current total staff of 11,357, among whom 969 are professors, 2192 associate professors, 6 academicians of Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 434 tutors of doctor students, and 17 members of the Academic Degrees Committee and the Discipline Appraisal Group under the State Council. Besides, the university has 14 posts of the “Yangtze River Scholar Award Plan” for specially engaged professors (9 engaged plus 1 lecture professor).
Currently, Chongqing university has a total number of 5,742 faculty and staff members, among which 2,709 are full-time teachers, 10 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and of the Chinese Academy of Science (including academicians engaged from other institutions), 5 members of the Subject Appraisal Team of the Degree Committee under the State Council, 15 titled the state-level middle-aged or young experts with distinguished contribution, 277 doctoral tutors, 330 experts awarded the governmental allowance, 1,530 full professors and associate professors.
Kunming University of Science and Technology has a qualified and experienced academic staff team that conducts both teaching and research. The total number of the staff is about 3,300 including academic and non-academic ones, nearly 800 of them are professors and associate professors, and over 1,600 are full-time teaching staff. Furthermore, there is one academician of china academy of engineering working for kust and there are a number of academicians of china academy of science and of china academy of engineering jointly working for kust.
Yunnan University retains a faculty and working staff of 2,372 people and among them 1,981 people are the specialized professionals (of which 222 persons are full professors, 409 are associate professors, and 987 are full-time instructors.) The average age of all the employees of Yunnan University is 40. Among the faculty of Yunnan University 683 persons are the instructors who have respectively obtained their doctorate or master’s degrees.
Presently, Guizhou University has 2,332 full-time teachers with 231 PhD owners and 954 Master degree owners. 298 teachers are full professors and 721 associate professors. 112 experts enjoy state council or provincial expert allowance, 6 first-batch key provincial experts, 59 province-managed experts, 46 province-level young science and technology talents, 19 famous teachers of higher education of Guizhou Province. Besides, 32 teachers have won various honors as outstanding teachers, model teachers, advanced working personnel and so on.