The development of economics in Southwest University for Nationalities can be traced back to the early 1950s.

At that time, a group of scholars went deep into Tibetan, Yi and Qiang minority areas to carry out economic and social investigation and research, accumulated rich first-hand information, published a series of works and investigation reports, and achieved fruitful results.

At the same time, since the school was founded, it has trained financial talents for ethnic minority areas by holding cadre training courses and correspondence courses, which has made due contributions to democratic reform and all-round economic and social development in southwest ethnic minority areas.