1. Chongqing Three Gorges University, located in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, is a full-time regular undergraduate college mainly engaged in arts and engineering, which is sponsored by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. It has been selected into the first batch of "Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan", "One Hundred Schools Project" of the Ministry of Education of China, and "Chongqing 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center", It is the director unit of the National University Campus Website Alliance and a member of the "Belt and Road" standardized education and research university alliance. It is the counterpart of Shandong University.
2. Chongqing Three Gorges University was founded in 1956. Its predecessor was the training class for junior high school teachers in Wanxian County, Sichuan Province. It was renamed Wanxian University, Wanxian College, and Wanxian Teachers College. In 1994, Wanxian Teachers College merged with Wanxian Education College to establish Sichuan Three Gorges University, which was upgraded to an undergraduate college. In 2000, the school was renamed Chongqing Three Gorges University. In 2003, Chongqing Three Gorges Economic School was incorporated. In 2013, the university was approved as a master's degree awarding unit.
3. As of June 2019, the school covers an area of more than 1980 mu, has 18 secondary colleges, more than 20000 full-time students, and has fixed assets of more than 1.4 billion yuan; It has 60 undergraduate majors in 9 disciplines, 3 first level discipline master degree authorization points, and 4 professional master degree authorization points; It has more than 1130 teaching staff and more than 920 full-time teachers.