The school is one of the earliest universities in China to offer continuing education, starting from 1956. The College of Continuing Education is a centralized management unit that holds adult education, self-study exams and various non-academic education and training. For a long time, continuing education has relied on the school's superior school resources, adhered to the development idea of "running schools according to law, standardizing management, adjusting structure, optimizing layout, improving quality and developing steadily", persisted in serving local economic construction and social development, and contributed to the cultivation of personal ability and quality, lifelong education for all and building a learning society, forming a multi-disciplinary, multi-field and multi-level school-running pattern with large scale and complete specialties. The school started the first lesson of the higher education self-study exam on 199 1. It is one of the earliest and most powerful examiner schools in Chongqing, and it is also the central examination center of Chongqing for the National Computer Rank Examination. School self-study institutions are sound, management is strict and standardized, and teaching quality is guaranteed. He won the first prize of "Chongqing Higher Education Self-taught Examination by Target Management" for 9 consecutive years, and won the national advanced unit of self-taught examination in 2006. There are more than 50 self-taught majors in the school and 10 majors in the society. Since 20 10, due to the adjustment of continuing education structure, the headquarters no longer holds adult education and self-taught exams, and only restricts the enrollment of self-taught classes in the continuing education base of Southwest University (Hechuan) and Rongchang Campus.