The Graduate School of Southwest University is a specialized institution responsible for postgraduate training in Southwest University. In the long-term construction and development process, the school has formed distinctive features in teacher education and agricultural education, and trained more than 200,000 talents for the country. The school has obvious advantages in pedagogy, psychology and agronomy. The research of silkworm genome is at the international leading level, and the research of basic psychology and pedagogy has reached the domestic leading level.

Southwest University, referred to as Xida University for short, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. It is a world-class discipline construction university, and ranks among the innovation platforms of 2 1 1 and 985 engineering advantages disciplines. One of the seven universities that provide free education for normal students was selected into11plan, 20 1 1 plan, outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, outstanding teachers training plan, national high-level university construction project and national college students' cultural quality education base.