Southwest University of Science and Technology is a full-time multi-disciplinary undergraduate college with a history of 60 years. The school is one of the 14 universities in the western region designated by the Ministry of Education, and a new doctoral degree authorization point in Sichuan Province is jointly established by the National Defense Science and Technology Bureau and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government. It is one of the pilot universities of modern distance education in China. It has the qualification of recommending outstanding fresh graduates to study for master's degree without examination and those with equivalent academic qualifications to apply for master's degree, and is qualified to carry out international education and accept foreign students. The school implements a management system jointly established by national ministries and commissions and provinces and cities, with Sichuan Province as the main management. The school is a "national civilized unit".

As an important part of school continuing education, the online education of Southwest University of Science and Technology makes full use of school resources, combines the experience of international distance education, adheres to the student-oriented, "economic, practical and service optimization" as the goal, takes standardized and institutionalized management as the running principle, and takes the quality of education and teaching as the center. After years of practice and exploration, a set of teaching mode, management mode and support service mode is established, which mainly focuses on in-service adult continuing education and meets the needs of amateur and decentralized learning.