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Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chengdu · Medicine & Pharmacy

Top tierDouble First-Class

Top tier — Priority coverage — programs, tuition and English-taught options actively maintained; a full international admission profile is shown where available.

Chengdu

Major city Metro Est. budget CNY 2,500–4,800 (USD 350–670) / month incl. dorm or shared flat

Sichuan's laid-back capital — teahouses, hotpot, giant pandas — has also become one of China's major tech-manufacturing bases, giving students at Sichuan University, UESTC and Southwest Jiaotong University a rare mix of relaxed living and serious industry. Its medical schools draw a large MBBS cohort from South Asia and Africa. Living costs sit well below the coastal first tier while the metro keeps growing.

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Academic strengths

China’s official discipline evaluation (MOE Degree Centre, 4th round, 2017): A+ ≈ top 2%, A ≈ top 2–5%. Methodology

Double First-Class disciplineEvaluation
Chinese Materia Medica B+
All evaluated disciplines (5)
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine B+
  • Chinese Materia Medica B+
  • Integrative Medicine B
  • Pharmacy C
  • Nursing C-

What its badges mean

Double First-Class

China’s elite university initiative (147 universities designated in the 2022 MOE list)

Data sources: university international-admission pages (linked above), MOE Double First-Class list (2022), MOE Degree Centre discipline evaluation (2017). Figures marked as typical ranges are editorial estimates, dated — per-source verification in progress — full data notes.