NSMC is a government-run college of medicine in Sichuan Province and is located in the second largest higher education center of Sichuan Province - Nanchong, a famous city, the origin of the Three Kingdoms Culture. Its two campuses occupy an area of over 89 Lac square feet.
NSMC has its national and international enrollment; its two campuses enroll nearly 15,000 thousand students in undergraduate and postgraduate program. With the guidance of its motto, Commitment, Fraternity, Honesty, and Creativity, it has developed into an important national and provincial center of higher medical education, disease prevention, and rheumatism treatment since its establishment in 1951.
In recent years, the college has undertaken 8 national research projects, 5 projects from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Health and State Chinese Medicine Administration, and 238 provincial key and scientific research projects. It has won 52 prizes, including 28 provincial prizes topping all the colleges in Sichuan Province in 2003; in 2004, first, second, third prizes totaling 7, one of which was recommended for a national prize.
It has published 3,100 scientific research papers, 58 treatises, among which 54 papers have been embodied by SCI and ET. The graduates with a solid foundation, good practical skill, highly competitive and comprehensive qualities and fine plasticity are well accepted by employers and society. The rate of employment remains above 95%, leading the colleges in Sichuan Province.
NSMU has good relationships with many universities, institutes and organizations abroad and has established sister relationships with many Universities around the globe.