Located in Beibei District, Chongqing, Southwest University is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education, which is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Chongqing. It is one of the seven universities in China that implement free education for normal students, one of the 60 cooperative universities in China that independently select and enroll students, and one of the founding schools of Chongqing University Alliance.
The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School as early as 1906, and 1936 was renamed Sichuan Institute of Education. 1950, the departments of education, Chinese, foreign languages, history, geography and mathematics of Sichuan Institute of Education merged with the National Women's Teachers College established in 1940 to form Southwest Normal College, and the departments of agronomy, horticulture and agricultural products manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College established in 1946 to form Southwest Agricultural College.
From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational College was merged into Southwest Normal University; 200 1, Southwest Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College and Citrus Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences merged to form a new Southwest Agricultural University. In 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University merged to form Southwest University.