The College of Biotechnology of Southwest University has 24 professors, researchers 10, associate professors and associate researchers. Among them, doctoral supervisor 10 and master supervisor 1 1. It has 1 national key discipline (special economic animal breeding, ranking first in China), 1 ministerial key discipline of the Ministry of Agriculture (sericulture), 1 Chongqing first-class key discipline (biology) and 1 postdoctoral mobile station. There are 6 master's degree authorization points and 6 doctoral degree authorization points for special economic animal breeding, genetics, cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, microbiology and physiology. Training 1 19 graduate students and 39 doctoral students. There are 73 doctoral students, 7 graduate students 1 17 and 5 postdoctoral students. (The above data are as of July 2007)